Jacob Weisberg at Slate has an interesting read about the danger the Dems are facing with Lieberman’s exile.

In the column he notes:

The election was about one issue and one issue only: the war in Iraq. Joe Lieberman was an otherwise highly regarded, well-ensconced Democratic incumbent who would never have faced a meaningful primary challenge had he not vocally supported President Bush’s invasion in 2003, continued to defend the war in principle, and opposed adopting a timetable for withdrawal. Ned Lamont, a preppy political novice from Greenwich, got the idea to run last year when something he read in the Wall Street Journal made him gag on his breakfast. It was a hopeful analysis of Iraq by Lieberman.

The column in question appears to be this Opinion Journal piece from November 2005.

In it, Lieberman discusses the war following a visit to Iraq.  Since it is being hailed as the beginning of the end of Joe’s career (which is in question, he has a good chance as an independent) I felt we should give some coverage to why the Democrats wanted him sent to the showers.

I will let you, the reader, draw your own conclusions about why Lamont would "gag on his breakfast" reading an article that discusses the positive elements in Iraq.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110007611

Our Troops Must Stay
America can’t abandon 27 million Iraqis to 10,000 terrorists.

BY JOE LIEBERMAN
Tuesday, November 29, 2005 12:01 a.m.

I have just returned from my fourth trip to Iraq in the past 17 months and can report real progress there. More work needs to be done, of course, but the Iraqi people are in reach of a watershed transformation from the primitive, killing tyranny of Saddam to modern, self-governing, self-securing nationhood–unless the great American military that has given them and us this unexpected opportunity is prematurely withdrawn.

One notable point is the absence of the word "Muslim" from the reports.  I won’t make any predictions, but I think it is a safe bet that it wasn’t a group of militant Mormons.  More will develop there I am sure.

There is no way I will possibly be able to keep up with all the updates on this evolving story, so I will link to a few good sources and let them keep tabs on it.

At Sister Toldjah, she posted a good summary from Brendon Loy which I am reposting here:

• British authorities say they have disrupted a massive, imminent midair terror plot involving suicide bombers carrying liquid explosives in their carry-on baggage on U.K.-to-U.S. commercial flights. “Put simply, this was intended to be mass murder on an unimaginable scale,” says Scotland Yard.

• According to Sky News, the plot involved six planes. Earlier reports had said “as many as 20 planes” were involved. Scotland Yard would not confirm the number of planes. The planes were to be blown up en route to America (or possibly “over UK and US cities,” according to one early report).

• Fox News reports that a knowledgeable U.S. official says this plot had a “serious Al Qaeda connection.”

• Police know of specific flights on which the terrorists were booked, according to Sky. “They were not yet sitting on an airplane, but they were very close to travelling,” says a U.S. intelligence official, according to Fox.

• 21 would-be terrorists were arrested overnight in London. At least 2 others are still at-large, possibly “many others,” according to Fox. “We believe that these arrests have significantly disrupted the threat, but we cannot be sure that the threat has been entirely eliminated or the plot completely thwarted,” says Michael Chertoff. The arrested individuals are British-born young male Muslims, possibly of Pakistani origin, according to Sky.

• The U.K. is at its highest terror alert level, indicating an “imminent” threat. The U.S. terror threat level has been raised to red for flights from Britain to the United States, and to orange for all U.S. domestic, U.S.-bound international, and U.S.-to-U.K. flights. It is the first time the U.S. terror level has ever reached “red” for any part of the country.