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WASHINGTON D.C. (WaPo) June — Joe Lieberman:
“I know I’m taking a position that is not popular within the party, but that is a challenge for the party — whether it will accept diversity of opinion or is on a kind of crusade or jihad of its own to have everybody toe the line. No successful political party has ever done that.”
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July 3 -- Lieberman on CNN: Worried not enough Democrats will vote
“There is not an inch of difference between me and the President over this war.”
Joe Lieberman at ease with George Bush
“It has been my view for 12 years that Saddam Hussein must be removed from power if we are to have a more peaceful world and more secure America.”
LIEBERMAN: Voted YES on ending the Bosnian arms embargo
Ending the Bosnian arms embargo.
Status: Bill Passed Y)69; N)29; NV)2
Reference: Bosnia Herzegovina Self-Defense Act of ’95; Bill S. 21 ; vote number 1995-331 on Jul 26, 1995
Lobbyists for Arming Bosnian Muslims – Richard Perle and Douglas Feith
A mentor to Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz, Defense Policy Board member Richard N. Perle and several other prominent conservative defense thinkers, Albert Wohlstetter became Luti’s entree into their world. From there, while still in the Navy, William J. Luti became a congressional fellow in the office of then-Speaker Gingrich. His time there, in part spent working on legislation related to arming and training Bosnian Muslims, again brought him into contact with interventionist conservatives.
U.S. Allies Fed Pipeline of Covert Arms to Bosnia – Created an Al Qaeda cell in Bosnia
On the possible secret use of the airport for weapon shipments to Bosnian forces with so-called ‘black flights’, see the Appendix Intelligence, Chapter 4 ‘The Croatian Pipeline and Black Flights on Tuzla.
The indirect American support of the ABiH by looking the other way in the presence of direct arms supplies and the Croatian pipeline were described as a sort of ‘Vietnamization’ of the war. In other words: a strong ABiH was created, which was able to compensate for the lack of American ground forces with a robust mandate.[7] Something similar happened at the end of the war in Vietnam.
It is not strange that different views existed within the Clinton administration on arms supplies to Bosnia and the influx of Mujahedin. There were also greatly divergent views within the CIA on a comparable operation during the Reagan administration, when Stinger missiles were supplied to the Mujahedin fighters in Afghanistan. The then Head of Operations for the Middle East at the CIA, T. Twetten, described the supporters of collaboration with the Mujahedin fighters within the Reagan administration as ‘strange people developing strange ideas’ at the time.[8] Now too there were dangers attached to illegal arms supplies, which some certainly did recognize.
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CQ Politics.com — According to a poll released Monday by Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., Lieberman cut Lamont’s lead to 51 percent to 45 percent. This 6 percentage-point margin was less than half the 13-point edge (54 percent to 41 percent) to which Lamont surged in a poll of likely Democratic primary voters released just four days earlier.
Yet the latest poll also raised a question about whether enough primary voters still are persuadable to allow Lieberman to stage a last-minute surge back into the lead. Only 4 percent of poll respondents said they were undecided, while nine out of 10 of who supported one of the candidates said they were set in their choice.
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Oui, do you have any info on leiberman and any connections with AIPAC?
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NEW YORK (The Jewish Weekly) Sept. 23, 2005 — Individuals closely tied to AIPAC sought to pay another Jewish group to hire its No. 2 official soon after Washington’s pro-Israel lobby had publicly disavowed him under pressure from a federal investigation, The Jewish Week has learned.
Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, said this week that shortly after the AIPAC dismissed Steven Rosen, its director of foreign policy, “I was called by a couple of very wealthy people very close to AIPAC asking me to hire him. They said they’d pay his salary if I hired him.”
PS A contact with AIPAC is not illegal or improper. There is no mention of any illegal activity by Joe Lieberman or involvement in the AIPAC spy affair with Steven Rosen.
Make a bet George Bush will pardon spy and traitor Jonathan Pollard by the end of 2008?
Israel finally acknowledged that Pollard was an Israeli agent and now assumes a responsibility for helping him return to Israel. He has been granted Israeli citizenship and is frequently visited by Israeli cabinet members. Many right-wing Israeli politicians support his freedom in order to boost their campaigns.
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it is a shame that the so called anti-war candidate in only anti the Iraq war. He is fully behind Israel in its right to defend itself against the kids of Lebanon. Not a terribly inspiring change for those of us who hold having a sane foreign policy as important.
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Congratulations to all – let’s go forward for total victory in November and General Bush’s Waterloo: what a loserman …
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A check from Hillary Clinton‘s HILLPAC is being cut to Ned Lamont for five thousand dollars. She’s the first one to be counted on and make good on her promise to support the winner of the Connecticut primary. We can only hope that the rest of the Democratic Party stands behind Ned in his bid to win the Senate seat.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (Boston Globe) Aug. 9 — The party has scheduled an 11 a.m. news conference in Hartford. Nancy DiNardo, the party chairwoman, had supported Lieberman. But she said if Lamont, a political newcomer, won the primary, she would have to back him in the general election
Aside from Lamont, state Democrats will have to embrace another primary winner they didn’t endorse in the May convention: New Haven Mayor John DeStefano. DeStefano won the gubernatorial primary over Stamford Mayor Dan Malloy, the party-endorsed candidate, by approximately 2,000 votes. DeStefano now faces popular Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell in November.
Most of the state’s high-profile Democrats, such as U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., publicly and actively supported Lieberman in his primary battle.
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Dodd, who said he planned to attend Wednesday’s news conference, was at Lieberman’s election party at a downtown Hartford hotel, but was not seen with the senator once the election results were final.
All the state’s Democratic constitutional officers, most of whom endorsed Lieberman, are scheduled to be at the event.
“I do think it will be difficult for some people who have been longtime friends of the senator,” DiNardo said. “I can’t speak for them. I don’t know where people will be coming down on this.”
State Sen. William Finch, D-Bridgeport, said he’s going to talk to Lieberman about whether it’s in their mutual best interest for him to support the senator as an independent.
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More than 280,000 ballots were cast in the primary, in which about 27,000 newly registered Democrats were able to vote. Some towns in Connecticut were recording more than 50 percent turnout, officials said, high for a primary.
Governor - - Dem Primary
Name Party Votes Pct
DeStefano, John Dem 134,944 50.8
Malloy, Dan Dem 130,826 49.2
Lieutenant Governor - - Dem Primary
Name Party Votes Pct
Glassman, Mary Dem 120,015 57.0
Slifka, Scott Dem 90,681 43.0
U.S. Senate - - Dem Primary
Name Party Votes Pct
Lamont, Ned Dem 146,061 51.8
Lieberman, Joe (i) Dem 136,042 48.2
CONNECTICUT – Primary Election: March 7, 2000
Gore, Al D 98,312 55.5
Bradley, Bill D 73,589 41.5
Uncommitted D 5,400 3.0
● Connecticut Senate Primary Analysis
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"George Bush a better candidate ..."Koch is no stranger to bolting from his party’s choices. In 2004 Koch backed George Bush over his party nominee, John Kerry. At the time Koch said: “I am a proud Democrat who generally supports Democratic candidates for office. I have never voted for anyone other than a Democrat for president. I believe that the Democratic Party’s philosophy is over all far better for our country than the Republican Party’s … Although I am a Democrat, I am no ideologue … I have proudly crossed party lines for candidates I thought were appreciably better.
I believe that the most important issue facing the world is international terrorism, and it is my current intention to vote of George W. Bush for re-election.”
Gore disloyalty to Lieberman leaves door open for 2008
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Dan Gerstein called from the Lieberman campaign to say the above account from another Lieberman adviser is not accurate. While confirming that Rove called Lieberman, he added: “Rove made a personal call, no help was offered, and we are not interested regardless.” A senior White House official also says that the account is “not accurate.”
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HARTFORD, Conn. Aug 10, 2006 (AP)– Top Democrats on Capitol Hill abandoned Sen. Joe Lieberman one by one Wednesday and threw their support to Ned Lamont, the anti-war challenger who defeated him in the primary. But Lieberman said his conscience demands that he run as an independent in November.
Top Senate Democrats, including John Kerry and Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, Harry Reid of Nevada, Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey and Chuck Schumer of New York, said they supported Lamont as the duly elected choice of Connecticut’s Democratic voters.
Reid and Schumer the party’s Senate leader, and the head of the Democratic Senate campaign committee said: “The perception was that (Lieberman) was too close to George Bush and this was, in many respects, a referendum on the president more than anything else. The results bode well for Democratic victories in November and our efforts to take the country in a new direction.”
Kennedy called Lamont’s victory “a clarion call for change,” and a spokeswoman said Kennedy planned to campaign for the nominee.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton reiterated her pledge to back the winner of the primary. She stopped short of calling on Lieberman to quit the race but urged the senator to “search his conscience and decide what is best for Connecticut and for the Democratic Party.”
“I think it would be irresponsible and inconsistent with my principles if I were to just walk off the field,” Lieberman said in an interview with The Associated Press a day after his loss to the political newcomer in a race that was considered an early referendum on the Iraq war.
● Liberal Group Coming to Murtha’s Defense
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