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Citing Progress in Iraq, Top Democrat Favors Continued U.S. Presence

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Joe Lieberman, the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2000 and a respected Senator from the great state of Connecticut, has just returned from his fourth trip to Iraq and reports “real progress there.” While he acknowledges that more needs to be done, this loyal Democrat has found that:

the Iraqi people are in reach of a watershed transformation from the primitive, killing tyranny of Saddam to modern, self-governing, self-securing nationhood–unless the great American military that has given them and us this unexpected opportunity is prematurely withdrawn.

That’s right, this Democrat opposes the premature withdrawal of our armed forces.

Among the process he noted was economic prosperity in the Kurdish North and increased electric power in the Shi’ite South, and saw elsewhere “more cars on the streets, satellite television dishes on the roofs, and literally millions more cell phones in Iraqi hands than before.” People were actively campaigning for next month’s legislative elections. “None of these remarkable changes would have happened,” this Democrat finds, “without the coalition forces led by the U.S.”

Iraq’s Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari claims “that his country now has the most open, democratic political system in the Arab world.” His people are far more optimistic about their future of their land than Americans are. “Two-thirds say they are better off than they were under Saddam, and a resounding 82% are confident their lives in Iraq will be better a year from now than they are today.”

Lieberman has much more to say about progress in Iraq so instead of relying on me to paraphrase it, I suggest you go on over to OpinionJournal.com and read the whole thing!

Comments

  1. I’m confident that in the next 12 hours, Lieberman will be branded a “traitor” by the nutty LibDemSurrender grassroots groups…. just like former heros Zell Miller, Judith Miller and Bob Woodward are now personas non gratas.

  4. And Now, The Anti-Murtha: Congressman Tim Murphy Says Stay in Iraq

    Rep. Tim Murphy, one of two members of Congress treated at a military hospital after a weekend accident in Iraq, said Monday that wounded soldiers had told him the United States should remain in Iraq.

    “Every soldier I talked to said, ‘Don’t pull out. Do not make it so those who have been wounded and those who have died have done so in vain. We know we can take care of this cause. We got to finish this,'”

    Something tells me Rep. Murphy will not be the hot guest to book on the Today show in the next few days.

  5. V, I second the thought. If Leiberman had been on top of the ticket in 2000, he would not have had to moderate or change many of his long held positions in order to placate the Gore crowd. I would almost certainly vote for him today, but I know he is unelectable in the Democratic party as it exists today.

  6. Proud to say that in 2004 primaries, I did vote for Lieberman.

    (As a registered Decline to State a Party, California lets me do that. And as a former longtime Democrat, the habit dies hard!)

    Unfortunately, by that point, Skerry had already won the booby prize and my vote was just a meaningless protest for the Democrats to return to sanity.

  7. I don’t think Lieberman will get the fawning media treatment Murtha got, nor will he get the warm, fuzzy treatment John McCain gets from the media when he bucks his party.

    I don’t know if I would have voted for Lieberman or not, but if he had run, he would have been more principled than the fop that was nominated. Kerry was/is an empty suit, and that’s what was really alarming about the prospect of a Kerry Presidency. Kerry wanted the photo ops and Air Force 1 and the state receptions… actual policy would have been set be George Soros, MoveOn, Michael Moore, and the other far left groups he owed big time. At least Lieberman would have stood for something, even if I didn’t agree with everything he stood for.

  9. Lieberman is the BIGGEST PUSS* in the entire Senate. (Yes, I’m using “PUSS*” on a gay man’s site…. The man is
    such a huge whiner… and his message is even more disconcerting than
    the tone of his milque-toasty voice. That stalwart manly Republicans
    (yes, I’m joking) would want to cozy up with Lieberman says SO MUCH
    about Lieberman. Yuk! The guy is such a cipher! And of course
    you guys would love him… big surprise.

  10. You sound quite bitter, Dan. How marvelous.

    No Democrat should be in power for many years. Even the saner ones will be forced to work with the freaks and those freaks will devalue every department they touch.