Ned Lamont’s Response To DLC “Independent” Lieberman

From an e-mail received today:

Earlier this week, Sen. Lieberman wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal entitled "The Choice on Iraq" that managed to get it exactly wrong... just like his Wall Street Journal op-ed in November 2005 where he argued that "our troops must stay."

In response, Ned Lamont has written an open letter to Sen. Lieberman at the Huffington Post about the real "Choice on Iraq," a choice the American people and our military leaders have already made, but which Sen. Lieberman still refuses to acknowledge.

And here is an excerpt from the letter:

Fifteen months ago, in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal praising the Bush Administration's Iraq policy, you asked the rhetorical question, "does America have a good plan for doing this, a strategy for victory in Iraq?"

"Yes," we did, you answered.

Since the day you wrote those words, over 1,000 more American troops have lost their lives in Iraq and that country is more dangerous than ever.

Senator, you had it exactly wrong then, and this week, in another Wall Street Journal op-ed entitled "The Choice on Iraq," you have managed to get it exactly wrong yet again.

"As the battle for Baghdad just gets underway," you write in this week's piece, congressional opponents of the escalation "have already made up their minds about America's cause in Iraq."

On the contrary, Senator, it was you and President Bush who had already made up your minds before the war started, using cherry-picked intelligence to sell the war to the American people. And if the battle for Baghdad is "just getting underway," how do we explain the escalating violence over the last four years?

Read the rest of Ned’s letter here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ned-lamont/the-real-choice-on-iraq_b_42370...

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Lieberman vrs. Lamont

What happened in CT to that race?

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