Taking out Lieberman
AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo
07/05/06
[T]here are signs the War Party's stranglehold over the leadership of at least one major party is beginning to fray. This unraveling is a response to the grassroots antiwar sentiment that is energizing a burgeoning number of Democratic Party activists -- both old and new -- forcing the moribund leadership to either come out against the occupation of Iraq or else join Sen. Joe Lieberman, the president's most stalwart supporter when it comes to the war. Indeed, Lieberman is more royalist than the king, attacking any idea of a drawdown in troops as impermissible, and even demanding an end to all discussion of withdrawal. This last is what the Lieberman wing of Democrats has always been about: limiting debate, shutting down discussion, and policing the party's candidates and organizational structure at the precinct level to ensure that no challenge to interventionism and militarism arises from the grassroots...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9249
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lieberman
by Justin Raimondo
07/05/06
[T]here are signs the War Party's stranglehold over the leadership of at least one major party is beginning to fray. This unraveling is a response to the grassroots antiwar sentiment that is energizing a burgeoning number of Democratic Party activists -- both old and new -- forcing the moribund leadership to either come out against the occupation of Iraq or else join Sen. Joe Lieberman, the president's most stalwart supporter when it comes to the war. Indeed, Lieberman is more royalist than the king, attacking any idea of a drawdown in troops as impermissible, and even demanding an end to all discussion of withdrawal. This last is what the Lieberman wing of Democrats has always been about: limiting debate, shutting down discussion, and policing the party's candidates and organizational structure at the precinct level to ensure that no challenge to interventionism and militarism arises from the grassroots...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9249
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lieberman
rudkla - 5. Jul, 14:21
