<snip>lost the Democrats’ nomination for re-election because of his support of the war in Iraq. With support from Republicans, he won re-election with slightly less than half the vote in November.
Lieberman has returned to Washington, unfazed by his near-death political experience, with his thinking on Iraq as rigid and narrow as that of President Bush.
Lieberman is one of the few prominent supporters of sending more troops to Baghdad, where they will be targets in a civil war they cannot hope to resolve.
At the recent Senate confirmation hearing of Lt. Gen. David H. Petraeus, appointed by Bush to lead this escalation of the war, Lieberman managed to get the general to agree that a Senate resolution opposing the troop escalation would encourage the enemy. The general quickly backtracked, saying he was taking no position on the Senate resolution. U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton rebuked Lieberman for "trying to up the rhetoric."
What is particularly disappointing in Lieberman’s continued support of Bush’s failed Iraq policy is his support of Bush’s simplistic view that the only alternatives are "success" or "failure." <snip>
http://www.nhregister.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17775028&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=7581&rfi=6Unfortunately, they are 3 months too late. They endorsed him in the primary and in the general. I bet they won't print my LTTE scolding them for that.
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