Lessons from Connecticut
(09/07/06 4:00am)
On Aug. 8, something happened for the first time since March 31, 1968, when President Lyndon B. Johnson declined to seek his party's nomination for re-election. A prominent politician was brought to justice, held accountable for a disastrous, bloody war fueled by deceit and waged by incompetents more persuaded by fantasy and ideology than reality. The only difference being that this time the war is in Iraq, and the politician is Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman.