Assclowns of the week: Joe Lieberman and Hillary Clinton

Seventy-six Senators voted yesterday for the Kyl-Lieberman Amendment which gives Bush the ability to go into Iran. Hillary Clinton voted for it, Barack Obama sat the vote out for some reason. Dodd and Biden voted against it. Here in pertinent part is what the Senate voted for:

it should be the policy of the United States to combat, contain, and roll back the violent activities and destabilizing influence inside Iraq of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, its foreign facilitators such as Lebanese Hezbollah, and its indigenous Iraqi proxies;

(4) to support the prudent and calibrated use of all instruments of United States national power in Iraq, including diplomatic, economic, intelligence, and military instruments, in support of the policy described in paragraph (3) with respect to the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxies

The full roll call is here. This amendment was pushed by the administration through Senator Kyl and Senator Lieberman. Senator Webb called the amendment "Cheney's fondest pipe dream."

Senator Webb continued:

Those who regret their vote five years ago to authorize military action in Iraq should think hard before supporting this approach. Because, in my view, it has the same potential to do harm where many are seeking to do good.

Here is a statement that sounds eerily close to the run up to the Iraq war by defense Secretary Gates.

“Secretary of Defense Robert Gates stated on September 16, 2007 that “I think that the administration believes at this point that continuing to try and deal with the Iranian threat, the Iranian challenge, through diplomatic and economic means is by the preferable approach. That the one we are using. We always say all options are on the table, but clearly, the diplomatic and economic approach is the one that we are pursuing.”

Why is Hillary Clinton the darling of the Democrats? Why? Because we long for the Clinton years? Read Barrister boy's poem about clinging to the past. If we long for the Clinton years we only are clinging to a past that no longer exists, a past that was not all that good anyway. It is a large mistake we are making by supporting Clinton's candidacy when there are two maybe three candidates that would be much better without the negatives (putting aside Gravel and Kucinich for the moment), Dodd, Edwards and possibly Obama (with huge reservations). Do we want a change in leadership or a change in politics? Because Hillary Clinton will only give us more of the same. There is no difference between this vote and the 2002 vote to authorize military action against Iraq. It does virtually the same thing.