Would Senator Joe Lieberman choose Iraq War death over Health Care life?

Senator Joe Lieberman 

The Iraq War costs almost $700 billion since 2001 according to the National Priorities Project, and that cost is still climbing. There have been an estimated 1,033,000 violent deaths because of that war.

During that time Senator Joe Lieberman (I - Connecticut) never once expressed a concern for war spending and the national debt. In fact, he was at odds with Democrats on the Iraq War and never mentioned a concern for spending on it.

Joe Lieberman's 2006 Democratic Senate challenger Ned Lamont compared his support-with-caveat stance on the Iraq War with Richard Nixon's position on the Vietnam War and found striking similarities. Even then Lieberman never expressed a paramount concern with war spending and the National Debt.

Why then does he raise the issue when reforming Health Care is the subject? It's no wonder there was this protest in front of his office last week:



It would be great to see Senator Lieberman do the right thing for America and back a Health Care bill with a public option.