Murtha vs. Lieberman
From Big Tent Democrat
Now, Karl Rove may call me a defeatist, but can anyone living in the real world deny that [Iraq is] heading in the wrong direction? Yet despite this bleak record of performance, the president continues to stand by his team of failed architects, preferring to prop them up instead of demanding accountability.
Democrats are fighting a war on two fronts: One is combating the spin and intimidation that defines this administration. The other is fighting to change course, to do things better, to substitute smart, disciplined strategy for dogma and denial in Iraq.
That's not defeatism. That's our duty.
Does America have a good plan for doing this, a strategy for victory in Iraq? Yes we do. . . . The administration's recent use of the banner "clear, hold and build" accurately describes the strategy as I saw it being implemented last week.
. . . It's time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge that he will be the commander in chief for three more critical years and that in matters of war we undermine presidential credibility at our nation's peril," Lieberman said.
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