It's hard to believe, but today finally marks the beginning of the end of America's front line military role in Iraq.

Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki has named today, June 30th, 2009, an "Iraqi Independence Day" of sorts, a national holiday which he said would celebrate the "great victory"...

Two years ago, Joe Lieberman campaigned throughout Connecticut in attempt to convince Democratic primary voters that he was the true Democrat in the race and that I was "Republican-lite". He promised significant American troop reductions by the end of 2006 - and just enough voters believed him in November 2006...

It was towards the end of the campaign in 2006 and we were running well back in the polls. Bill Clinton and Karl Rove, the leaders of the Connecticut AFL-CIO and U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- they had all lined up behind incumbent Senator Joe Lieberman. Then we received a...

(Originally posted at NedLamont.com.)

The recent troubling resignation of CENTCOM Commander and Bush appointee Admiral William Fallon confirms a pattern that started to emerge even before the Iraq war began five years ago: President Bush is all for letting the military commanders, and not the politicians, make the...

When I decided to run for Senate, I did so because I deeply believed that the citizens of Connecticut were yearning to see fundamental changes in our politics - changes that would make government work for them again.

Today, with our Presidential primary in Connecticut less than a month away,...

(For the full post with photos, read the original post at NedLamont.com.)

Earlier this month, I put on my journalistic hat and traveled the polar extremes of the Middle East, from Dubai to Gaza City. I had not worked in the Middle East for almost twenty years, and I...

General David Petraeus' congressional testimony this week directly contradicted the findings of last year's Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group. While the bipartisan study group unanimously recommended that the US change its role from combat operations to training and anti-terrorist commando raids almost a year ago, General Petraeus still calls such...

Two years ago, Louisiana was hit by Katrina, the most expensive and devastating hurricane in our nation's history. Both the levees and our emergency responders were woefully unprepared, and New Orleans continues to suffer. At the time, while President Bush and Congress were at a loss as to where to...

Last week, days before the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, a group of us met with Hans Blix, the former top UN weapons inspector. He reminded us that not only did the UN have hundreds of weapons inspectors on the ground in Iraq before the invasion, but that...

Dear Senator Lieberman,

Fifteen months ago, in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal praising the Bush Administration's Iraq policy, you asked the rhetorical question, "does America have a good plan for doing this, a strategy for victory in Iraq?"

"Yes," we did, you answered.

Since...

A Real Conversation About Iraq

We're having a conversation about the war in Iraq, and we want you to join in. You can either film your own video blog and send it to us, or fill out the web form below with your thoughts
about Iraq.

If you live in Connecticut, make sure you get involved this week by contacting one of our many field offices (link). If you have family or friends inside the state, please send them a personalized postcard (on our dime) telling them about your feelings on the race (link).

Here are two ways you can join the conversation:

1.) Upload your own video blog about Iraq to the free video service, YouTube.

• Instructions on how to upload your video to youtube.

• Add the video to the "Iraq Conversation" YouTube group.
  

2.) Send us your thoughts on Iraq by filling out the following form below on this page. We'll put these up on our testimonial wall along with video...