{"id":2064,"date":"2004-07-06T11:15:26","date_gmt":"2004-07-06T16:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2064.html"},"modified":"2004-07-06T11:15:26","modified_gmt":"2004-07-06T16:15:26","slug":"why-edwards-is-on-the-ticket-and-lieberman-isnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/why-edwards-is-on-the-ticket-and-lieberman-isnt\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Edwards is on the ticket and Lieberman isn’t"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s bad enough when Bush and Cheney make absurd connections between Iraq and 9\/11, but Lieberman<\/a>? (via Atrios<\/a>)<\/p>\n

MS. MITCHELL: Well, let’s take a look also at the American support for this. When we looked at our NBC News\/Wall Street Journal poll, again, as to whether or not all this was worth it, a majority, 51 percent, feel that removing Saddam Hussein was not worth the casualties and the billions that we spent. So, Joe Lieberman, have we lost the American people?<\/p>\n

SEN. LIEBERMAN: We’re in danger of losing too many of them. I mean, here’s where we are now. Our military is performing brilliantly, courageously and with a real sense of purpose. They know the importance of what they’re doing. The Iraqis now have their own government, a very balanced representative, not elected, but a lot of credibility among the Iraqi people. The country is getting up and running, and I think the real challenge to us who are in positions of leadership in America on a bipartisan basis is to make the case to the American people about why it is important to pull together and win this post-Saddam war in Iraq. And why if we do and when we do, our children and our grandchildren are going to live a lot safer lives than otherwise. So I don’t want to go through another circumstance where division at home deprives America and the world of a victory over terrorists who hate us more than they love life.<\/p>\n

MS. MITCHELL: Well…<\/p>\n

SEN. LIEBERMAN: These are the very same people who attacked us on September 11.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Who, exactly, are the “very same people” he’s referring to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s bad enough when Bush and Cheney make absurd connections between Iraq and 9\/11, but Lieberman? (via Atrios) MS. MITCHELL: Well, let’s take a look also at the American support for this. When we looked at our NBC News\/Wall Street Journal poll, again, as to whether or not all this was worth it, a majority, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}