President Lieberman
This is a must-read for anyone who still supports voting for party over principle. Al Gore's running mate in 2000, Senator Joe Lieberman, has now become even more hawkish than George W. Bush and Condoleeza Rice, by publicly supporting a military attack on Iran."I think we've got to be prepared to take aggressive military action against the Iranians to stop them from killing Americans in Iraq," he told CBS on Sunday, "and to me, that would include a strike over the border into Iran."
Bill Clinton campaigned for Joe Lieberman as recently as last summer.
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Meanwhile, the new Hillary Clinton biography, "Her Way," by New York Times reporters Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr., is helping to puncture Senator Clinton's unexplainable reputation as one of the chamber's most thorough and diligent legislators. The authors quote Sen. Jay Rockefeller (WV), then-vice chairman of the Intelligence Committee, as saying that only six (unnamed) senators had read the entire National Intelligence Estimate, outlining Saddam Hussein's weapons supplies and possible links to Al Qaida, and Clinton won't say whether she did or not.
On the campaign trail, Senator Clinton and former Senator John Edwards have both separately implied that fellow presidential candidate Barack Obama might have supported granting war authorization to the president in 2003 if he had been exposed to the same intelligence reports that they had been, but what reports were these exactly? Did our senators do their due deligence in even reading the reports available? Dennis Kucinich was in the Congress in 2003 and, with access to the very same intelligence, voted against surrendering congressional war authority.
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After failing to control illegal international trafficking by Iowa cell phone salesmen, the U.S. Alcohol-Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau has legalized a version of absinthe, the one-time hallucinogenic product of choice for Vincent Van Gogh.
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The Supreme Court unanimously agreed today that car passengers, as well as drivers, have a right to legally challenge a police officer's decision to stop a car. "When police make a traffic stop," wrote Justice David Souter for the court, "a passenger in the car, like the driver, is seized for Fourth Amendment purposes and so may challenge the stop's constitutionality." In a separate, more controversial ruling, the court determined that the driver of a car has radio authority over all other passengers.
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An art exhibit highlighting the Negro Leagues has arrived at the State Historical Building in Des Moines.
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