JOE MUST GO

On October 2, 2002, Senator Joe Lieberman (D. Conn.) was the co-sponsor of Joint Senate Resolution #46, Use of U.S. Armed Forces Against Iraq, along with Senators Warner, McCain and Bayh. Senator Lieberman’s speech in support of the resolution indicated no doubt that Iraq was a threat to the region, that he was intent on making Iraq the dominant Arab power, and that he was developing WMD and the means to deliver them against U.S. interests and his neighboring states.

http://www.iraqwatch.org/government/US/Letters,%20reports%20and%20statements/senate-liebermanwarnermccainbayh-100202.htm

This hawkish stance predates the March 2003 attack on Iraq which the senator continues to support to this day. While Joe Lieberman was not alone in believing that Iraq was a threat to American interests and its neighbors, he has never backed down from the benefits of and the need for war against Iraq despite the fact that the WMD were never found and almost certainly did not exist at the time of the resolution or the attack.

The senator continues to say that the overthrow of Saddam was a good thing and worth going to war for. Since the basis for his original position was the danger posed by Saddam against his neighbors based on his weapons capability and since that balloon has been punctured, he is left with the argument that Saddam was a very bad person who did horrible things to his internal enemies; no one has disputed this but it was not the basis of the threat against our interests or Iraq’s neighbors.

Since Iraq clearly did not pose the threat that was the basis for the attack, Joe Lieberman and George Bush are stuck with bringing democracy to Iraq and overthrowing a very bad tyrant who threatened no one but his own internal enemies. For this and not the attacks against New York and Washington we have lost more than 2,500 lives, 20,000 wounded – many severely, and $4 billion every week of the year with no end in sight. And, of course, Iraq has become the center of the war on terror.

It is one thing for Senator Lieberman to oppose pulling out of Iraq saying that in his view it would be bad for the U.S. and its interests, but he cannot bring himself to say that going in was based on erroneous intelligence and that he was wrong. He has accused his primary opponent of not understanding the geo-political situation. As all his support for the attack was based on his estimates of Iraqi power that has turned out to be completely wrong, he should be more specific about what his opponent doesn’t get.

Iraq has proven to be one of the worst American geo-political blunders of all time. Joe Lieberman was one of the principal instigators of this blunder. The people of Connecticut have seen through the calamity and are calling him on it. Their fear is that through his political trickery going against Joe will be hurtful to their goal of electing a Congress that will provide real oversight to an administration that has lost its way and has no idea how to get us out this mess. Joe Lieberman is out for no one but himself at this point.

Please forward my two postings on Senator Lieberman to any Connecticut voters you may know. Thanks!

Joe must go!

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Wild Bill