Lieberman's own party will never endorse him again.

The party he abandoned is agonizing over how they can entice him back.

Only one of these parties remains a haven for traitors, warmongers, and Bachmann-like bussers of Bush.

Remember that next time you go to the ballot.

I posted a few weeks ago on the apparent cross purposes of the United States and Israel, and its likely connection to the raid on Syria.

Consider ArmsControlWonk's new analysis of the latest neocon cul de sac in the Middle

 East in this light, re the efforts by the US to pressure the UN (yet again) to run a 'special inspection' of a site of suspected Syrian nuclear activity, the "Box on the Euphrates:"

A very curious set of stories appeared yesterday about the results of environmental sampling that the IAEA conducted at the AlKibar site.

Diplomats -- which is to say, not the IAEA staff -- told AP's George Jahn, Reuter's Mark Heinrich and DPA's Arthur that the IAEA DG ElBaradei's report for the 27-28 November Board of Governors meeting will indicate that "samples ... contained traces of uranium ... was processed and not in raw form."

.....The presence of processed uranium (it is unclear it is enriched or in the form of metal) has many possible implications. There wasn't supposed to be any reactor fuel on site and the IAEA didn't find any evidence of graphite -- though that isn't particularly exculpatory (see: Mark Hibbs, "Evidence form IAEA graphite probe not critical to Syria reactor case," Nuclear Fuel 33:21, p. 7). Maybe it was cross contamination from the North Koreans. Or maybe Syria has some enrichment efforts.

But, at least today, I think the story hit the papers as part of an effort to press ElBaradei to request a "special inspection" in Syria.

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Iglesias is  the man to clean the "Augean stables."

Assuming Obama is interested in such a project.