End Joe-mentum; Ned Lamont for Senate

I voted for Ned Lamont today because Joe Lieberman has been a yes-man to the Bush-Cheney Invasion Juggernaut from the start. I voted for Joe three times before today—though not for him as VP candidate in 2000, that year I voted for Nader. For me it was this interview and this statement from Lieberman that soured me on the guy—though the idea he has ever really been a liberal is a joke. Remember, in 2000 Joe was the right-leaning, hawkish foil to the liberal environmentalist Al Gore. And don’t forget about Terry Schiavo—Joe was on the wrong end of that one too.

Since mid-July I have been a volunteer working for the Ned Lamont campaign because I think Connecticut deserves a Senator who doesn’t roll-over for Dick Cheney and George Bush. This is an administration out of control and Joe’s claims of bi-partisanship are downright ludicrous when you’re dealing with a bunch that values embryonic goo over innocent men, women and children in Baghdad. The fundamental difference between Lamont and Lieberman is that Lieberman believes the Neocon crap about democracy’s infectious qualities and the idea that somehow a Western-friendly Iraq would become an ally and more importantly a beachhead in the Middle East from which the U.S. could launch missions into Iran and Syria. That dream looks pretty ridiculous now in the very bloody reality we see in Iraq but that hasn’t stopped Joe Lieberman from giving Bush-Cheney the green-light on Arab-killing and corporate profiteering in the Tigris-Euphrates Delta.
Plain and simple the Iraq War hasn’t helped anyone, except Iran, Halliburton and plenty of defense contractors.
The Bush-Cheney administration has terribly mishandled the War on Terror by sending US forces into Iraq—a country that had nothing to do with 9/11—and Joe Lieberman has cheered Bush on the entire time.
What do the experts say about Iraq and the Republican talking point that says “we’re fighting them there so we don’t have to fight them over here”?

“That argument works if you assume there is a finite group of people you can attract to one place and kill, but we seem to have expanded that group of people. The National Intelligence Estimate says we’ve expanded that group of people. This is not a group of flaming liberals saying this, it’s the collective opinion of 16 separate US intelligence agencies saying that there are more jihadists because of the Iraq War… Terrorism figures have basically gone exponential since 2003, when the 2006 figures come out I think it’s going to be a pretty sobering set of figures.”-Peter Bergen, author & terrorism analyst (AC360, 9/26/06)

“The American military presence has become a liability to long-term political stability in Iraq. And, the American presence in Iraq is radicalizing mainstream Muslim public opinion throughout the Muslim world, not just in Iraq. I don't think American policy makers have an appreciation of the gravity of the crisis and the damage that the American military presence has done to vital American interests in the region…”-Fawaz Gerges, author & professor of Islamic Studies (CNN’s AM, 10/24/06)

"While our army is bogged down in Iraq, the Iranians who had suspended their uranium enrichment activities have resumed them. Basically they are going full speed ahead toward a nuclear weapon. And they mock our president because they say: You can’t do anything. And why can’t you do anything? Your army is tied down in Iraq and secondly if you attack us our allies in Iraq, our Shiite allies, who you put in power, will attack you." –former U.S. ambassador Peter Galbraith BookTV C-Span2

People say monomania isn’t good for any political party but the Iraq War has become the central issue in this campaign and Joe Lieberman has been wrong on Iraq from the start. At about 250 million dollars per day, the Iraq War is costing American tax-payers more than our schools, or health care or social security combined and for what? We’re spending money to make more terrorists?
Joe has been in the Senate for 18 years and when you look at his record, how he's voted and which votes he's skipped, it's very clear he has lost touch with Connecticut’s citizenry. Let’s hope it stops tonight.
The polls are closed now in CT. Let the counting begin!