Add to the list of folks I grew to admire during my time in government, Joe Lieberman. Sen. Lieberman is and will always be a Democrat. He often sides with his party on issues I feel strongly, and differently, about. But Sen. Lieberman is a man with deeply held beliefs and he sticks by them, even in the face of reprobration and scorn from his fellow caucus members.
Following up on his Wall Street Journal article Tuesday defending the Iraq war, Sen. Joseph Lieberman is reminding Bush administration critics that it's wrong to claim that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction when the U.S. attacked in 2003.
"The so-called Duelfer Report, which a lot of people read to say there were no weapons of mass destruction - concluded that Saddam continued to have very low level of chemical and biological programs," Lieberman told ABC Radio host Sean Hannity on Wednesday.
"[Saddam] was trying to break out of the U.N. sanctions by going back into rapid redevelopment of chemical and biological and probably nuclear [weapons]," Lieberman said, calling the Iraqi dictator "a ticking time bomb."
"I have no regrets" that the U.S. toppled Saddam, the former vice presidential candidate explained. "I think we can finish are job there, and as part of it - really transform the Arab-Islamic world."
Lieberman said that his fellow Democrats haven't taken kindly to his decision to buck his party on Iraq. "There's been some grumbling," he told Hannity. "In Connecticut there's a 'Dump Joe' web site that has cropped up." But Lieberman added, "I've been here long enough where, at this stage in my career, I'm going to do what I think is right."
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/12/2/132602.shtml
Scarlett Says: Joe you get to join Phil Graham, Fred Thompson, and Zell Miller in my personal "Hallowed Halls of Good Guys".
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