And Senator Lieberman is beating the anti-war Democrat, Ned Lamont, who beat him in that primary.
It is, of course, one thing to pick off a God-believing, pro-war Democrat senator like Lieberman in a secular and liberal state like Connecticut.
The hearing on Congress' war powers was chaired by a longtime opponent of the Iraq war, Wisconsin Democrat Russ Feingold.
Yesterday, a Democrat who once supported the war, called for US troops to be withdrawn.
Under the stifling, consensus-based post-war system, based on a Social Democrat-People's Party duopoly, mentioning the issue smacked of bad manners.
Lincoln, concerned about preserving and reunifying the union, the nation, following the war, he led and appointed that Democrat to become vice president.
Their accusations have left the Democrat in a quagmire similar to the war itself, not because they were true (most were either exaggerated or unproven), or because Mr Kerry was slow to respond, but because they exposed a fundamental flaw in his campaign.
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Dodd's presidential campaign expects the war in Iraq to be a focal point for the Connecticut Democrat, not only on the campaign trail but also in the Senate, a Dodd policy aide told CNN.
In the 1960s, a Democrat ad hinted that Barry Goldwater might start a nuclear war.
The committee's lead Republican and lead Democrat both said that they would not have voted for the war knowing what they know now.
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He was a lifelong Democrat, a representative of that dying breed, the hard-headed cold war liberal.
Senator JAMES WEBB (Democrat, Virginia): The majority of the nation no longer supports this war - the way this war is being fought, nor does the majority of our military, nor does the majority of Congress.
Senator BARACK OBAMA (Democrat, Illinois): We are going to bring an end to this war and I will fight now in the United States Senate to make sure that we don't pass any funding bill that does not have a deadline to start bringing our troops out and a deadline to start bringing our troops home.
But his talk of unity, his avoidance of blame, and his promise to end the war all seem intended to gesture to a similar prospect of redemption: not only for black people but for white people (for voting for a black man), for Republicans (for embracing unity with a Democrat), and for Americans (for saying to the world that the war was a mistake).
Representative TIM WALZ (Democrat, Minnesota): They don't want unaccounted money going to this war.
No fewer than five American flags flanked the podium when Pennsylvania Democrat John Murtha strode into a Capitol briefing room to announce his dramatic reversal on the war in Iraq.
He was said to have been giddy at the thought of going up against the anti-war former Vermont Governor Howard Dean, who at one time looked as though he would be the Democrat candidate.
Democrat Joe Donnelly was elected in 2006 in part because of voters' unhappiness over the Iraq war.
Meanwhile, Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy once again seized on the row over the legal basis for the Iraq war - the issue which simply will not go away.
Democrat James Polk wanted to annex Texas, a policy the Whig candidate Henry Clay warned would provoke war with Mexico.
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