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From Joe Lieberman's website: Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (Conn.) criticized President Bush and fellow Democrats over Iraq yesterday, arguing that the president's postwar policies threaten to erode public support for a just war and that the postures of some of his rivals in the presidential race threaten to brand their party as soft on terrorism.
Lieberman issued a broad indictment against the president. Bush failed, he said, to have U.S. units ready to locate weapons of mass destruction when the major fighting ended and should have built international support to secure the peace. He also said Bush overstated the case against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in the State of the Union address in January by claiming Iraq had tried to buy uranium in Africa.
But Lieberman, a staunch supporter of the war, charged that members of his own party, either through their opposition to the war or their ambivalence about whether it was justified, failed to live up to the Democratic Party's traditional muscular internationalism.
"By its actions, the Bush administration threatens to give a bad name to a just war," Lieberman said in remarks delivered in the Senate Press Gallery. "But by their words, some in my party are sending out a message that they don't know a just war when they see it, and, more broadly, they're not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom."
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