Monday, December 12, 2005
Lieberman at the Bridge
"It's Joe Lieberman, the Democrat from Connecticut and 2000 running mate of Al Gore, who has dared to suggest we must and will win the war.
'I have just returned from my fourth trip to Iraq in the past 17 months and can report real progress there,' Senator Lieberman wrote on these pages November 29. 'What a colossal mistake it would be for America's bipartisan political leadership to choose this moment in history to lose its will [in Iraq].'
When that policy substance was ignored in Washington, the Senator repeated his case last week in the political language the Beltway press corps could finally comprehend: 'It is time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge that he will be Commander in Chief for three more critical years, and that in matters of war we undermine Presidential credibility at our nation's peril.' The media, and his fellow Democrats, seemed agog."
'I have just returned from my fourth trip to Iraq in the past 17 months and can report real progress there,' Senator Lieberman wrote on these pages November 29. 'What a colossal mistake it would be for America's bipartisan political leadership to choose this moment in history to lose its will [in Iraq].'
When that policy substance was ignored in Washington, the Senator repeated his case last week in the political language the Beltway press corps could finally comprehend: 'It is time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge that he will be Commander in Chief for three more critical years, and that in matters of war we undermine Presidential credibility at our nation's peril.' The media, and his fellow Democrats, seemed agog."
