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A Profile in Courage

10:02 AM, Jun 22, 2006 • By DANIEL MCKIVERGAN
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From the Hartford Courant:

A somber Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman stood alone on the Democratic side of the Senate Wednesday and broke with his colleagues on the Iraq war, announcing he would oppose today two Democratic-authored blueprints for pulling American troops out of Iraq.

Lieberman, the first and so far only Democrat to declare plans to vote against both measures, spoke near the end of a tense day of partisan debate over Iraq policy….

"I fear that it would also send another message to our terrorist enemies and to the sectarian militias in Iraq," Lieberman argued, "that America is not prepared to see this fight through until the Iraqis themselves can take over."

A while back, Sen. Lieberman headed up the Democratic Leadership Council, a group formed in part to combat the party's leftward drift on national security. I have searched the DLC web site to find out whether they support or oppose the primary withdrawal amendment sponsored by Democratic Senator Carl Levin. I found nothing except for a call for a "real debate on Iraq." But that debate is happening now on the Senate floor and the DLC is MIA. But at least one former DLCer isn't ducking.

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