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Bill Curry on Joe Lieberman

Check this out. It’s from Bill Curry’s column in Sunday’s Hartford Courant, emphasis added:

[Joe Lieberman] went on drifting right, but changed in other ways. He began attacking the motives of his adversaries, members mostly of his own party. This, more than anything, sparked the uprising that led to his primary defeat at the hands of novice Ned Lamont.

In the general election, Joe reassured war-weary voters that “I hear you.” He lashed out at Lamont for saying otherwise. “I’m not for staying the course,” he growled convincingly. “Nobody wants to get out of Iraq more than I do.” Connecticut voters took him at his word…

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This past week, the White House issued an interim Iraq report. It claims progress on just eight of 18 “benchmarks” and stretches even for that. Iraq was supposed to complete a constitutional review, but gets a passing grade for forming the committee. And so on. To read it is to be sick at heart.

Unless, of course, you’re Joe Lieberman, who says he read it and found nothing to cast the least doubt on our plan of action. In fact, he’s now sure the war can only be lost by “defeatists at home.”

Senator Lieberman was willing to say anything to win the election. Now he’s willing to say anything to keep the troops from coming home, shifting the blame for losing the war onto the critics that are only to blame for him losing the Democratic Primary.