Reply #7: Congrats, Midlo. Great letter, too! Notice there were some [View All]

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others who were also on our side? Good to see!

Check out this one from Lynchburg!

http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&%09s=1045855935005&c=MGArticle&cid=1149190052509&path=%21editorials%21letters

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Editor, Times-Dispatch: I love to read Ross Mackenzie's column. His piece on Joe Lieberman was a classic. He must have had a healthy drink of the pro-war, pro-Bush Kool-Aid before penning that one.

Mackenzie imagines that Democrats, by rejecting Lieberman for Ned Lamont, are "reaching back to the post-Sixties hippiedom." Making yet another unjustified attempt to link the Iraq war to the larger struggle against terror, he even imagines that my party "spurns the banner of moral seriousness." That comes awfully close to suggesting that it is immoral to oppose the Iraq war.

I'm proud that the Democratic Party is finally becoming unified against the war. Lieberman bought into the Bush strategy, and has steadfastly defended it. But that policy has failed. Lamont won because he said it was time to begin the process of ending America's role and bringing our troops home. As Lamont has said, "We dropped the ball" in the real struggle against terror when we forgot about Osama bin Laden and Afghanistan and invaded Iraq. We did it because the militaristic neocons who came into power with Bush had always wanted to do it. They were wrong then; they are wrong now. Rick Howell. lynchburg.

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