As a Connecticutter I'm loathe to admit it, but Lieberman is a Senator from Connecticut, not, as your first paragraph states, from South Carolina.

Second, far from bin Laden's "nightmare," the terrorist leader has actually said that al-Qaida's strategy "is to cripple the U.S. economy by dragging us into quagmires abroad...

Does that mean Bush and his supporters have been giving aid and comfort to the enemy?

No problem. If Lieberman can say Iraq is a big success, you can say he's from South Carolina...both statements equally true.

Essentially: this is the Lieberman/Gramm position with regard to iraq: "Please please plaease please please please please please please please let it work out."

SO what if they cripple our military in the process...they -- who are destroying our military as a viable fighting force -- claim to be patriots while the rest of us are defeatist. Orwell help us all.

I'm not sure if this was sarcasm (well deserved), a Freudian slip, or simply wishful thinking, but I'm afraid that Joe Lieberman, "I-S.C." as he is identified in the article, is still a senator from Connecticut.

Now, he may transfer to the capital of secession when his current gig is up. Then his transformation into Zell Miller will be complete.

The 2nd to last paragraph reads as if that is a quote from Osama bin Laden. It is not, it is a quote from the article in the link.

The quality of our "leadership" in this country is just embarassing. That these people keep getting elected is even more so.

The part I really like is "AlQeda has been swept from their strongholds..." considering there was no AlQeda in Iraq or strongholds before we went there...kind of running in place.

dreamily blethering on about an Iraq that would not subject to Iranian influece or expansionism; code talk for "we'll be there forever."

Iran is the real target. Everyone knows that there is no way out of Iraq that does not leave Iran better off. Even if the Shia, Sunnis and Kurds joined hands and sang "We are the World", Lieberman & Gramm would still advocate staying because an united Iraq would be in the the Iranian sphere of influence.

Witness that Ahmedinijad (?) can announce a visit to Iraq ahead of time and receive an open, warm welcome - unlike Bush or Cheney.

Those two are high ranking "Al qaeda in America" officials, send in a drone please! Where's General Petranus when you have real enemy targets?

Let's be sure to remind, remind, remind war supporters that we shouldn't be in Iraq, in the first place.

This means that all the destruction, the dead, the wounded, and the displaced have been sacrificed in vain.

"Witness that Ahmedinijad (?) can announce a visit to Iraq ahead of time and receive an open, warm welcome"

Yeah - but could he buy a rug for $5 in the market like Lindy Graham?

I'll believe all the happy talk about how wonderfully the surge is working and how Sunnis, Shiites and American troops now spend their evenings roasting marshmallows and telling ghost stories around the campfire if ANY war proponent does one simple thing. Announce one month in advance that you will be visiting Baghdad, post your itinerary online, and take a one hour stroll outside the Green Zone without military escort and body armor. Anybody willing to take that challenge and who comes back alive will have earned the right to talk about how stable Iraq is. Until then, everything else is just empty rhetoric.

great!

Democrats (Lefist Socialists) need to get their head out of the sand and lay of the drugs. WE (Our Troops and the Iraiqis) are making headway... it just never gets ACTURATELY reported that anything good is happending in the war. Thats because any progress in the war is bad news for Democrats, especially in an election year. In fact to prove how tilted the media coverage is, when Lieberman making his opening statement before questioning Patrais and Crocker, he made the same comment and indicated that politically Iraq had made more progress than we have recently. The reaction of the media.... they all CNN, and even Fox, etc.... cut away to something else and never mentioned it..... because he was right. The democrats would like nothing better than an attack on our soil to prove our efforts are not working. No attack bad news for democrats. This a war like no other.... its a start... but eventually for there to be stability an entire region of the world will have to change. If we pull out what happens? The enemy will get strong and attack us again.... on our soil!

Kennedy was great today... very little in the way of questions.... used almost all of his time making a statement instead of questions....Here is the pot calling the kettle black... I still have a few questions for him about Mary Jo!