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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6543-2004Mar18.html
Madrid: Pearl Harbor or Munich?
(Washington Post) Sen. Joe Lieberman - In our domestic politics, it is critical that Republicans and Democrats not let the quest for partisan victory this November prevent us from working together now to achieve a national victory over the terrorist insurgency in Iraq. In the same way, it is important that our European allies not allow their opposition to many of the Bush administration's foreign policies to separate them from America in defeating Islamic terrorists. The same solidarity that enabled us to defeat communism is urgently needed to defeat terrorism. Anyone in Europe who thinks a separate peace can be made with the terrorists has not heard or read the warnings of Osama bin Laden. We are all their enemies, because we share the same values of freedom and democracy that brought us together as an alliance. The terrorist insurgents we are fighting in Iraq today come from the same fanatical movement as those who struck Madrid.