Anti-war activists were all atwitter this week over Senator Lieberman’s public comments of support for President Bush’s call for increasing troops. The blogsphere, naturally, was the fulcrum for pushing the message that Lieberman was sucking up to the GOP and not a true Democrat. Many example of this line of thinking can be found at My Left Nutmeg. The Iraq occupation has become to many, the litmus test position, that supposedly decides where political philosophies can be gaged. The reality is that what to do with Iraq, theocratic Islamic states, terrorism, foreign oil dependency and propping up defense contractors have all become a knot of conflicting interests that aren’t so simply defined, and more importantly solved. As long as President Cheney Bush calls the shots as commander in chief, there’s not much bloviating senators can do to change things. Unless of course they follow the money and take away the checkbook from the reckless spenders in the white house.

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