Letters to the Editor
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Lieberman "The Humility Man"
Humility is not a word that I would use to describe Joe Liberman. "Fence Sitting Man", would be more appropriate, Or "War mongering Man"
The excuses Lieberman gives on the reasons he lost the Senate primary to Ned Lamont in my opinion are lame at best. The people voted for Ned Lamont, not just the democrats. Lieberman won the race as an Independent because Lamont did not fight aggresively enough to win.
Lieberman stated that he felt totally liberated since he became an Independent. He is now able to vote and support George Bush and his administration no matter how his constituients feel about the Iraqi war, invading Iran etc.
Lieberman along with the majority of Senator's do not tune in to the American people. They do not feel the pain when a young soldier is killed in Iraq or a family member has to die a slow death because he/she cannot afford medical insurance. It is too bad that he does not use his humility and toss his super ego aside and do the will of the American people.
Fence sitting Lieberman has no definitive opinion on Gonzales, The Attorney General of The United States, the same Attorney General that Fox News could not get a single member of the Bush administration to go on their show and defend him.
"Mistakes were made in the prosecution of the war after Saddam Hussein was overthrown". That is the understatement of the year. I opposed the invasion of Iraq and I still do not support the war. I would like to ask Seneator Lieberman this question; How can ending this war and bringing our troops home make this country and our children less secure??? We have already made al-Qaida a happy man by invading Iraq instead of going after the terrorist responsible for 9-11. Some intelligence reports have said that we are less safe now than we were prior to 9-11.
The sooner Joe Lieberman changes from Independent to Republican the better off this country will be. I would much rather have a member of the Senate be an honest man and speak from his heart and soul than for hin to "Him and Haw" until he decides which side to take in an arguement or when voting on a Bill.
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glad we cleared that up
Wow, thank you Walter. I now am confident that five years from now I still will not think that Joe Lieberman has a point.
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Could Lieberman Be Partly Right?
Clearly Senator Joe Lieberman is right of center on foreign policy but is he also right about any of what he says?
While Joe was wrong to support going to war and wrong again to continue to justify it after it is clear the intelligence was manipulated and wrong, Joe is right about one thing, we have considerable responsibility for what we leave behind. While Joe is wrong to worry about our credibility, which is already a joke, Joe is right to worry about what we will happen if we depart prematurely.
In today's newspapers, we can see the result of Britain's departure from Southern Iraq. It has turned around from a relatively safe section with a thriving community to a war zone. Three major factions are now fighting over the oil resources there. It is near chaos.
Clearly, if we were to leave Iraq by March of '08 (which the Bush administration - not the Democratic leadership - has prevented), it would result in the middle of the nation going the same way and it would threaten the Kurdish area in the North.
Moreover, our nation has relied upon thousands of Iraqis to help us. Are we to leave them to die? Many thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands more want no part of the wars between the militias but are trapped with nowhere to go. Are we prepared to offer them the same sanctuary that many of the surrounding Arab nations have already offered millions of Iraqis who have fled the conflict? Are we prepared to do so even if it risks bringing some terrorists into the country?
Lieberman has been way too uncritical of this Cheney/Bush administration but if are to be intellectually honest, we must discuss how we, as a nation, will deal with the mess this administration has made. To walk away with our eyes and ears closed as our friends and supporters are tortured and/or killed is truly irresponsible.
I support Obama (since he was against this war from the start) but, on this point, both he and Hillary (who supported this war to protect her Presidential chances) are right. Departure will not be easy. It must be planned carefully. It must take into account these and other considerations. Edwards and Richardson are also right to want to leave but their pandering remarks to leave immediately without planning for it carefully make them unworthy of being President.
We cannot afford the lives or money it will take to sustain this war much longer but I urge everyone to include a call for protecting the lives of our Iraqi friends, good people like our own neighbors, as essential to any withdrawal plan.
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The Vice President Speaks
After reading article by Walter Shapiro I now understand why some call Joe Lieberman the Vice President of Israel. I also understand why more and more letters to the editor in many of Michigan's newspapers are asking: How many more Americans must die for Israel.
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JOE WHO?
This is why it is important to elect a veto-proof majority for Democrats in the Senate in 2008, to make quisling backstabbers and turncoats like Joe LIE-berman irrelevant, so the Democrats can COMPLETELY OSTRACIZE him from any decision-making or important position that his so-called "swing status" allows him to throw his despicable whiny weight around! I have always regarded LIE-berman as a complete unprincipled opportunist who toadied to CHIMPya and Bushland Uber Allies in an attempt to broaden his own political base and allied himself with repugnant-repubs in supporting the FIASCO and QUAGMIRE that is Iraq. Joe LIE-berman may think he is RIGHT and he is as far as "wings" are concerned, but he has been COMPLETELY WRONG about EVERYHING ELSE!