Replacing the imperialist warmongering Bush with an imperialist warmongering Lieberman would not be much of an improvement.

To the Editor:

Connecticut's Senator Joe Lieberman, whose remarks yesterday were reported in today's (8/5/03) San Francisco Chronicle, has taken to criticizing his front running Democratic opponents for the party's Presidential nomination in 2004 as "too liberal" and "too left." Actually, it is Senator Lieberman who has been blindly supporting the Bush invasion and occupation of Iraq. This Bush policy is based almost entirely on lies, distortions and neocolonial fantasies, and so opposition to it is just plain common sense. The traditional notion of common sense has flown out the window with the radical Bush II policies of massive and growing federal budget deficits, continueing and growing obscene tax cuts for the rich, environmental destruction and the go-it-alone imperial and neo-colonial foreign policy.

Senator Lieberman, being in the pocket of several major multinational pharmaceutical corporations due to his having received massive campaign contributions from them, naturally is an opponent of universal health insurance. He claims that universal health insurance, which is working fine in all the major industrialized countries of the world except the U. S., is "too expensive." If Bush had not wasted billions of dollars on his stupid war on Iraq, maybe we could actually afford universal health insurance. Who knows? Of course, we will never get anything progressive with the warmonger Bush running the show. And Senator Lieberman would hardly be much of an improvement over Bush.

Yours truly,

James K. Sayre

5 August 2003