The Truth About Democratic Anti-War Views
Senator Lieberman points out the harsh reality of Democratic opposition to the war:
The reversal began, like so much else in our time, on September 11, 2001. The attack on America by Islamist terrorists shook President Bush from the foreign policy course he was on. He saw September 11 for what it was: a direct ideological and military attack on us and our way of life. If the Democratic Party had stayed where it was in 2000, America could have confronted the terrorists with unity and strength in the years after 9/11.
Instead a debate soon began within the Democratic Party about how to respond to Mr. Bush. I felt strongly that Democrats should embrace the basic framework the president had advanced for the war on terror as our own, because it was our own. But that was not the choice most Democratic leaders made. When total victory did not come quickly in Iraq, the old voices of partisanship and peace at any price saw an opportunity to reassert themselves. By considering centrism to be collaboration with the enemy — not bin Laden, but Mr. Bush — activists have successfully pulled the Democratic Party further to the left than it has been at any point in the last 20 years.
Far too many Democratic leaders have kowtowed to these opinions rather than challenging them. That unfortunately includes Barack Obama, who, contrary to his rhetorical invocations of bipartisan change, has not been willing to stand up to his party’s left wing on a single significant national security or international economic issue in this campaign.
Lee ADDS: Just as I wrote and had Published in Letters to The Editor the the newspaper taht serves Orange County California: You can now say Thank You to Tom Daschle and his crowd of clowns for the attack on America of 9/11. Are you guys happy now?”
Well, now I ask Hands Up Reid and Obama, are you both happy now? Didn’t either of you realize that a UNITED FRONT would awe our enemies and cause them to stop this senseless slaughter? Is getting re-elected or elected so much better than the soveirnity of America?
