I signed Lamont's petition yesterday. Below is the comment I sent Mr. Lamont...
Sen. Lieberman regards himself as morally self-righteousness, but morality is more than chastising a President for having an extra-marital affair in the Oval Office; it is more than chastising Hollywood executives and video game makers for excessive violence in movies and video games.
In is speech “Beyond Vietnam,” Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr warned us that our nation was on the wrong side of a world revolution. We still are. He also warned us about the moral peril of our addiction to war: “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
Vice-president Dick Cheney made 3200% profit on his stock portfolio last year. His former company, Haliburton, continues to get no-bid contracts in Iraq and continues to bilk US taxpayers for their overpriced services and products. The avarice of the Bush Administration makes the greed and gluttony of Ancient Rome look quaint, as the neo-cons would say.
The Pentagon today threatens soldiers and their families that they will lose their death benefits if they wear the better quality armor that they purchase from their own funds but the Army won’t give them. How is this moral?
Republicans pass tax cuts that help the rich far more than the Middle Class and to pay for those tax cuts the Republicans seek to cut more social spending that aides the poor and disadvantaged. How is this moral?
The Articles of the 1945 Nuremburg Trials http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/NurembergIndictments.html deal with morality, a morality that Sen. Lieberman has turned a blind eye and deaf ear to. Those historic trials for the first time in human history labeled “wars of aggression,” which had been tools of imperial expansion for eons, as crimes, crimes against peace. These crimes lead to the other two crimes defined in those articles: war crimes and crimes against humanity. The articles also specifically say “…accomplices participating in the formulation or execution of … any of the foregoing crimes are responsible for all acts performed by any persons in execution of such plan.”
The 2003 Iraq War was originally defined by one of Bush’s aides, Andrew Card, as a product to be marketed to the American people. Since when did war become a product? Like crooked car salesmen, the Bush Administration sold the American people on their war with deceit, deception, and delusions.
The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “The past is prophetic in that it asserts that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.” Today, we are reaping the bitter harvest of the folly of George Bush’s decision to launch an unprovoked war against Iraq and of Sen. Lieberman’s unquestioning support for that war.
By his enthusiastic support of George W. Bush’s Iraq War, Sen. Lieberman has sided with war criminals and therefore is one himself. My conscience will not let me support Sen. Lieberman.
I hope that Ned Lamont can successfully challenge and defeat Sen. Lieberman in the 2006 Democratic Primary and do so honorably and while championing progressive Democratic principles that most Americans support. My suggestion is to follow a similar path that Democratic Governor Brian Schweitzer blazed in 2004 as he defied the convention wisdom of the Washington based Democratic consultants and led Montana Democrats to victory in that “red” state.
I look forward to having Mr. Lamont visit the Quiet Corner of CT, the Northeast corner of the state. Many here are disgusted at Sen. Lieberman’s unwavering support of the war and occupation of Iraq and are curious about him and his campaign.
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