Glenn Greenwald writes about the Lieberman/Graham opinion piece in the WSJ today regarding Russia. From the article:

The foreign policy team exerting chief influence over John McCain is truly more extremist — in a purer and more deranged form — than the foreign policy team of the Bush administration. They’re not only the most extremist faction in American political life, but also the most delusional. These aren’t just the people who led the U.S. to war in Iraq — though they are that — but they’re also the ones who actually believe that the Bush administration has been far too meek in its assertion of U.S. military force and too passive in its interference in the affairs of other countries. They want to accelerate — massively intensify — virtually every one of the polices that has brought the U.S. to such disgrace and near ruination over the past eight years. There is nothing “moderate” or “centrist” about any of them. John McCain is the Candidate of Bill Kristol and Joe Lieberman and John Bolton for good and clear reasons (including in Georgia): he’s the best and most devoted instrument to advance their militaristic agenda.

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by Glenn Greenwald
at Salon

Harry Reid was on The Daily Show last night (to promote his book, ironically entitled The Good Fight) and said that Joe Lieberman “supports us on virtually everything except the war.” This is exactly what Reid has said repeatedly about Lieberman (”Joe Lieberman is my friend, and he is a good Democrat, votes with us on everything, except the war. So Joe Lieberman is easy to work with”). Two weeks ago, a NYT article on Lieberman quoted Reid praising him and then immediately added:

A member of the Senate Democratic leadership, who insisted on not being identified, said: “The bloggers want us to get rid of him. It ain’t happening.” He added: “We need every vote. He’s with us on everything but the war.”

Leave aside the insulting absurdity of talking about “the war” as though it’s just one garden-variety political issue out of many. And also leave aside that Lieberman happens also not to be “voting with the Democrats” on the small matter of the presidential election. Beyond that, this claim that Lieberman votes with Democrats “on everything but the war” — made repeatedly by Reid [and two weeks ago in the NYT by "a member of the Senate Democratic leadership" too scared to be quoted (if it's not Reid)] — is a total falsehood, but nonetheless quite revealing about how the Senate Democratic leadership thinks.

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