The Cheese Stands Alone

Lieberman has been abandoned by almost every ally he had prior to the primary; he fired his staff, Bill Clinton bashed him at the Global AIDS conference yesterday, and almost every prominent Democrat is now backing Lamont. Bob Geiger (whoever the hell that is) has put together a list of Democratic Senators and with who their loyalties lie. So go ahead and check to see if your Senator is there. If not, make a phone call.

Right now the single most important issue facing this nation is Iraq. If you don't think that's true, you haven't yet read Seymour Hersh's latest piece on the Administration's Iran's policy. The secret about Hersh is that ever since Vietnam he has been very well connected at the CIA, he was their man when no one else would listen. (That's not how he got the My Lai story, but that's for another day.) Hersh knows what he's talking about. And unless we elect Senators who will pull our 130,000 troops out of the middle east where they are held hostage, we are going to nuke Iran in the next five years.

I know it sounds Rovian to broaden a single Senate race to the question of nuclear war, but withdrawing from Iraq in order to stop the violence there will be an intricate, complicated process technically and politically, and it starts now.

Senate Dems Supporting Lamont (Bob Geiger)

Watching Lebanon (The New Yorker)