Joe Lieberman, will you please go now? [View All]

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When Senator Lieberman said of Iraq, "This is a battle in the war on terrorism. Failure and defeat is not an option," in last night's presidential candidate debate, I wished a giant hook had pulled him off the stage.

The Great Lie killing our soldiers and choking political debate in our nation is that the invasion of Iraq is connected to the war on terrorism and September 11. That lie must not stand.

Before serious campaigning began, the presumptive Democratic front runners were Senators Lieberman, Edwards, and Kerry and Congressman Gephardt. But all of them voted for the Iraq War resolution, and today they refuse to admit they made a mistake. For Gephardt and Kerry in particular I believe this refusal is weighing down their campaigns. For either of them to get back into the first tier, they're going to have to come out and say,

"I'm sorry for that vote. At the very least we should have insisted on limits to presidential war power. I should have realized that the White House could not be trusted to tell the truth and cannot be trusted with power. We in Congress must revisit this vote and take back from the President the power to conduct war given to Congress by the Constitution."

My guts tell me that if one of them -- Gephardt or Kerry or possibly Edwards -- made that speech today, he'd become the front runner pronto. Lieberman is beyond rehabilitation, however.

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