One Of The Last Honest Politicians

Joe Lieberman has always been a man of character. He has struck me as the anti-politician although I'm not that naive that I believe it fully.

That said, he has some encouraging words (link requires subscription) about Iraq:

Progress is visible and practical. In the Kurdish North, there is continuing security and growing prosperity. The primarily Shiite South remains largely free of terrorism, receives much more electric power and other public services than it did under Saddam, and is experiencing greater economic activity. The Sunni triangle, geographically defined by Baghdad to the east, Tikrit to the north and Ramadi to the west, is where most of the terrorist enemy attacks occur. And yet here, too, there is progress.

There are many more cars on the streets, satellite television dishes on the roofs, and literally millions more cell phones in Iraqi hands than before. All of that says the Iraqi economy is growing. And Sunni candidates are actively campaigning for seats in the National Assembly. People are working their way toward a functioning society and economy in the midst of a very brutal, inhumane, sustained terrorist war against the civilian population and the Iraqi and American military there to protect it.

It is a war between 27 million and 10,000; 27 million Iraqis who want to live lives of freedom, opportunity and prosperity and roughly 10,000 terrorists who are either Saddam revanchists, Iraqi Islamic extremists or al Qaeda foreign fighters who know their wretched causes will be set back if Iraq becomes free and modern. The terrorists are intent on stopping this by instigating a civil war to produce the chaos that will allow Iraq to replace Afghanistan as the base for their fanatical war-making. We are fighting on the side of the 27 million because the outcome of this war is critically important to the security and freedom of America. If the terrorists win, they will be emboldened to strike us directly again and to further undermine the growing stability and progress in the Middle East, which has long been a major American national and economic security priority.

That sums up my views exactly. Is it all flowers and sunlight? No it isn't. Is it better than the media makes it out to be? Infinitely.

There are very few Democrats I'd vote for, but I'd say that Joe Lieberman is one of them. Unfortunately, the looney left took about ten minutes to make him a pariah for writing things such as this. He's a heretic to those who want America to lose. Don't forget to read the wretched Skinny Ollie (by the way idiot, at least spell "embarrassment" the correct way in you friggin' headline).

Be serious libs, he's the only Donk with any kind of plan for the war and his plan is stay the course. That, of course is the correct answer.