Senator Lieberman Speaks Again

Not all Democrats are Defeaticrats. Too bad there are not more with the courage Liberman shows in speaking up against the surrender wing of his party.

Senator Joe Lieberman: News Release:

The costs of victory will be high in American lives lost and American money spent. But the costs of defeat would be disastrous ? they include the collapse of the new Iraqi regime, civil war, regional war, a victory for Zarqawi and Al Qaeda, which will embolden them to attack both other Arab countries and our American homeland, the rollback of democracy in the region, and the painful realization that the lives of American soldiers who have died in Iraq were given in vain.

The President's description of our "clear, hold, and build" strategy for victory in Iraq and the tactical response of most Democrats suggests that there may be more agreement here than meets the eye and ear in the dueling partisan press conferences that characterize public discourse in Washington today. What I am suggesting here, as I listen and read the statements made, is that there is broad bipartisan agreement on the goals, on the strategic interest we have in the successful completion of our mission in Iraq; there are disagreements about tactics. Accepting this reality and the urgency of the moment in Iraq calls us, I believe, to remember the famous counsel of Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Republican of Michigan that "Politics must stop at the water's edge."

Vandenburg stated, that politics must stop at the water's edge, is altogether relevant to our current circumstances:
"To me, bipartisan foreign policy means a mutual effort under our indispensable two-party system, to unite our official voice at the water's edge so that America speaks with maximum authority against those who would divide and conquer us and the free world."
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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.

Got that moonbats?