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It looks like Ned Lamont is losing in his courageous anti-war candidacy against Joe Lieberman in CT. Ned Lamont's victory in the CT Democratic primary--denying incumbent Lieberman our party's nomination because of Lieberman's support for Bush's heinous, unjust, illegal war on Iraq--rallied the American people, 56% of whom opposed this war from the very beginning--from way back in Feb. '03, before the invasion. Today, about 70% of the American people oppose the Iraq war, and the exit polls today are saying that, for 6 out of 10 voters, the Iraq War was their main issue. Ned Lamont is the Eugene McCarthy of this era. In 1968, when hundreds of thousands of people were being slaughtered in another unjust war, Eugene McCarthy stood up in the New Hampshire primary and challenged Lyndon Johnson's war on Vietnam. McCarthy lost that election. But he did well enough to rally the nation's anti-war majority, and to convince LBJ not to run for a second term.
So, win or lose, Ned, you and your passionate supporters have my profound thanks tonight. It is still uncertain whether or not the American people have been again robbed of adequate representation in Congress of their very clear view of the Iraq war and other Bush policies. But whatever happens, as to vote tabulation and challenges of suspicious results, the soul of our country has been roused by the Lamont campaign, as by no other effort in the country, really--although we have many other fine candidates and wonderful campaign workers.
I hope and trust that Ned and his supporters will look closely at the new electronic vote tabulation equipment that I understand is in use in CT, and at any evidence of a fraudulent election in CT. It's apparent to me that Lieberman is a key operator for the war profiteers, who will attempt to obstruct and delay any withdrawal plans for Iraq, and will likely be positioned in the Senate to try to protect the war industry and Bush criminals from proper investigation, and to prevent serious reform. The money at stake is huge--$11 million AN HOUR for the Iraq War (I heard on Randi Rhodes today). And the thievery and other criminality by Bushites and related corporations has been unconscionable and unprecedented. The stakes on this matter are very high as well. And these war profiteers have no doubt poured resources into CT to defeat Lamont, and secure Lieberman a pivotal position in a Congress with a Dem majority in the House, and what may be a 50/50 split in the Senate. I hope that all of these factors are carefully analyzed if, as it looks like now, Lamont loses. I don't consider CT to have been a fair race in any respect. If there has been fraud, I hope we know about it. If there has been corruption--which I would strongly suspect--I hope we get those facts also.
But tonight I just want to thank Ned and his supporters, and pour my blessings and best wishes upon you. You were up against the darkness of lies, deceit and war in ways that few others have faced, in the political fight to empower the American majority. You were out there speaking the truth when almost no one else was. You were the vanguard of change. And you were the heart and soul of the American people, who had been so long without a voice in our national discussion, and had been so disempowered and demoralized.
You were the American Revolution, in the way that Eugene McCarthy was in 1968, and other great patriots before you. And I thank you with all my heart.
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