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Lieberman - A rare Bird

Senator Joe Lieberman is in the wrong party.   He is the only adult in the Democrat Party- at least when it concerns national security.  Below is a partial statement from Lieberman speaking on the floor of the Senate Tuesday.   He does not suffer from political amnesia about the past - like the majority of his Party.

"As I look back on it and as I follow the debates about prewar intelligence, I have no regrets about having sponsored and supported that resolution because of all the other reasons we had in our national security interest to remove Saddam Hussein from power, a brutal, murdering dictator, an aggressive invader of his neighbors, a supporter of terrorism, a hater of the United States of America. He was for us a ticking time bomb that if we did not remove him I am convinced would have blown up, metaphorically speaking, in America's face. I am grateful to the American military for the extraordinary bravery and brilliance of their campaign to remove Saddam Hussein.

"I know we are safer as a nation, and to say the obvious that the Iraqi people are freer as a people, and the Middle East has a chance for a new day and stability with Saddam Hussein gone. We will come to another day to debate the past of prewar intelligence. But let me say briefly the questions raised in our time are important. The international intelligence community believed Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Probably most significant, and I guess historically puzzling, is that Saddam Hussein acted in a way to send a message that he had a program of weapons of mass destruction.

Dems Hypocrisy II

Christopher Hitchens is ticked off.   

"And the American left mounts a gargoyle picket line outside and asks silly and insulting questions inside, about a question that has already been decided. What a travesty this is. Not only do the liberal Democrats apparently want their own congressional votes from 1998 and 2002 back. It sometimes seems that they are actually nostalgic for the same period, when Saddam Hussein was running Iraq, and there were no coalition soldiers to challenge his rule, and when therefore by definition there was peace, and thus things were more or less OK. Their current claim to have been fooled or deceived makes them out, on their own account, to be highly dumb and gullible. But as dumb and gullible as that? "

Enough

The piling on continues. 

There is no end in sight for the salvos on President Bush.   On "Meet the Press" - Tim Russert continued to assault the administration's character, competence and truth-fullness. 

Mr. Russert should wear his DNC button and Donkey hat during his next interview with GOP Chairman Ken Melhman.   Russert's objectivity is non-existent and his old Democrat hack colors are shining now.  He along with Chris Matthews are shamefully floating mis-truths spread by the Democrats and allies within the media.   

Criticism is certainly warranted of this administration on many fronts and serious policy differences are to be respected in a free society, but recent charges of Bush and Com. "lying" the US into War are beyond reason and utterly political pandering at its lowest.

The recent behavior of the MSM only crystalizes further its over arching loathing of this President.

Glance thru Washington Post, every section day after day carries articles and columns knocking the Bush Administrations policies and or personnel. The New York Times is no better in this department.   The public deserves both sides of all issues.  Sadly, objectivity and fairness are out...snipping, sarcasm, innuendo and crass are in. 

Naive thinking?  No, this is Journalism 101 and is lost on most in the MSM.   

 

Lies Lies Lies....yeah!

NRO's Jonah Goldberg recalls Democrat politicians singing a diferent tune.   

His summary of double talk and hypocrisy from the Left reminds us why the Democrat Party is still out of power regardless of the GOP's most recent woes.