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Nov 29, 2005

Leiberman Editorial Excerpt...

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110007611

I am convinced, almost all of the progress in Iraq and throughout the Middle East will be lost if those forces are withdrawn faster than the Iraqi military is capable of securing the country.

The leaders of Iraq's duly elected government understand this, and they asked me for reassurance about America's commitment. The question is whether the American people and enough of their representatives in Congress from both parties understand this. I am disappointed by Democrats who are more focused on how President Bush took America into the war in Iraq almost three years ago, and by Republicans who are more worried about whether the war will bring them down in next November's elections, than they are concerned about how we continue the progress in Iraq in the months and years ahead.

Here is an ironic finding I brought back from Iraq. While U.S. public opinion polls show serious declines in support for the war and increasing pessimism about how it will end, polls conducted by Iraqis for Iraqi universities show increasing optimism. 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. What a colossal mistake it would be for America's bipartisan political leadership to choose this moment in history to lose its will and, in the famous phrase, to seize defeat from the jaws of the coming victory.

Let NO poster state he hasn't been a strong defender of this war or taken even his own to task before now. And this is mild next to some other remarks he's made.

I am disappointed by Democrats who are more focused on how President Bush took America into the war in Iraq almost three years ago, and by Republicans who are more worried about whether the war will bring them down in next November's elections, than they are concerned about how we continue the progress in Iraq in the months and years ahead.

BTW, for people complaining he dares critisize Republicans? I dare you to deny this critisism isn't valid. If Republicans in the Congress weren't so damn concerned with election more then they are with success in Iraq they would NEVER have supported the watered down warner resolution the last year leading to the House to have to save their butts.

And, Leiberman wouldn't be the most well known Iraq war supporter in Congress. Sure, the Reps crawl out of a hole when something good happens, but many of them crawl back in when the news is bad. Leiberman does not. To his credit, neither does Santorum.