7 October 2002

Senator Lieberman

PO Box 2639

Hartford, CT 06101-8973

Dear Senator Lieberman,

I find your stand on war with Iraq completely at odds with what I consider to be a sound and well thought out foreign policy. First of all, the Bush Administration has not made a convincing case that we face such an imminent threat to our national security that a unilateral, pre-emptive American strike and an immediate war are necessary. Secondly, and just as important, going it alone entails serious risks and serious consequences for us in the Middle East and around the world. And worst of all, you would allow Bush to define the threat from Iraq any way he chooses. You would have Congress ceding its constitutional power to declare war to the president, who would be free to employ the U.S. military to enforce U.N. resolutions even if the U.N. Security Council concludes the use of force is not yet warranted or wise.

The Bush administration is using the war on Iraq for political advantage and I find this repugnant. He asserts that those who do not blindly follow him are un-American and lack patriotism. He and Vice President Cheney are branding patriotic Americans as near traitors because they will not acquiesce to their escalating demands for power. It is a disgrace before the American people that our President is making statements calculated to divide this great nation. I find it appalling that you are aiding the Republican Party in foisting this abomination on the American people.

The Bush administration claims that the purpose of a war against Iraq is to overthrow Saddam Hussein, destroy his WMD, and establish democracy in Iraq. Another objective is to control their 112 billion barrel oil reserves and to establish a base for strategic dominance by the United States in the most important oil-producing region in the world. As an added bonus, infrastructure of Iraq is in a state of complete dereliction requiring a wholesale restoration using the products and services of companies like Halliburton with close ties to the Bush administration.

There is a crucial secondary motive to the administration created media frenzy: it provides a constant distraction from the deepening financial crisis within the United States and what would be the crumbling political standing of the Bush administration as the November elections rapidly approach. Even more important is the diversion from the assault against the general population and future generations in the interest of narrow sectors of wealth and power that this administration serves with unprecedented loyalty. It must divert attention away from the lack of election reform, the pending failure of social security, the failure to implement The Department of Homeland Security, the lack of prescription drugs for seniors, rapidly escalating deficits, destruction of the environment, and the loss of our civil liberties.

This cynical strategy has overwhelmed the media with a flood of propaganda generated by the White House, the Pentagon and Congress resulting in endless debate about Iraq while the real issues that face the American people this election are ignored. The tragedy of 9/11/01 has allowed Bush to manipulate our grief and create a compliant American media that scares the American people into believing this huge artifice. War has become a political necessity for the survival of the Bush administration. You have allowed yourself to be a lackey to the Republican Party and have shown the American people your own lack of leadership skills. You are a disgrace to the Democratic Party and a liability to the American people. You should resign your Senate seat immediately. Please be fully aware I will never support you for any political office and will never provide you with any funds to achieve that aim.

Regards,

Vernon Brown

After carefully studying the photo that accompanied the article, specifically the sign being held by a supporter behind Mr. Lamont, I think that Lamont's campaign has struck opon a great way to drum up support. Call it the "Clinton Strategem". Best of luck to him!

I have been a Democratic loyalist from the time 60 odd years ago when the first Senator Dodd carried me on his shoulders while touring the factory in which my dad worked. I have held local elective office and have worked on any number of local and state campaigns. When I heard Lieberman say on C-Span that we should all support Bush, because " after all, he is our Commander in Chief and will remain so for another 3 and one/half years" he lost my support and my respect.

He wants me to support a Commander in Chief who lied to the country about WMD's; who lied about the full disclosure of all intelligence to the Congress; who fired a General who told him we dindn't have enough troops to occupy Irag; who, after knowing that 60% of our casualties were caused by roadside bombs, sent reservists and Guardsmen to Iraq in unarmored vehicles.

The Senbator claims that we, the citizens of Connecticut have been benefitted by his actions as a Senator. Maybee, but he, by his statements, has demonstrated that he lacks totally the honest ability to assess the President. Where else is he lacking?

...that either Lieberman will win again or an even more right wing Republican will take the Senate seat.

The whole "declare peace and come home" strategy will not will win outside of certain congressional districts, certainly not for a state. Please check out other websites besides Salon and Democraticunderground for a more rounded idea of what your fellow Amwercians are thinking, maybe like CNN.

The ever growing and years late, anti Joe Lieberman sentiment

seemingly ignored by the press, including Salon, and Walter

Shapiro, involves far more than his Neo-Con Iraq war support

but his usual phony piety re: so much he has supported that

has literally killed off the middle and lower classes in favor

of his major contributors Insurance, Banking, Wall Street.

God would hardly praise LIeberman's De Lay like religiousity

with his (with GOP), fighting SEC regulations (alone with Evan

Bayh), that would have saved thousands of victims of the billions

in retirement, health insurance, jobs, with the crimes of Enron,

World Com, the endless list of fallen Lieberman/Wall Street, DLC

God's sacrificing the innocent hard working man in the process.

The same omissions by Salon and the MSM, apply to Feinstein, Hillary, and the rest of the Al From Corporate cronies, many who

have cost us billions/trillions/ with no universal health care,

(which Israel has alond with all other industrialized countries

curiously AOK with Lieberman et. al., but not for us, time for

AIPIC to be called out), banking, telecom, all de-regulation

failed trade policies, even unfettered immigration for the corporate NAFTA plantation owners in Mexico, and the banks freely

laundering drug money, while U.S. citzens go without health insurance, have lost jobs, retirement plans pensions...choice,

privacy...the list is endless of that which Liberman has done

to screw the working man and woman...while acting as the DLC character assassin of Dean, and all "REAL democratic values".