LIEBERMAN SORT OF GETS IT

Well, at least a part of it. I've posted before about the mental health care crisis in the military (here, here) and on the March 2, 2007 Imus in the Morning Show, Lieberman acknowledged it:

LIEBERMAN: "There's another whole problem here that I've been into for a couple of years, which is the mental health services given to veterans. I mean, Barbara Boxer from California -- who's fully against the war, and I'm for it -- we got together and worked on what are the mental health services we're offering to these men and women who go through this tremendous stress. Incidentally, what kind of tests do they get before they go over -- before they're deployed into battle?"

IMUS: "None."

LIEBERMAN: "They get a check-off. And it was outrageous, even though the law said they needed a full mental health test, which is reasonable enough -- not for their own safety, and, frankly, for the safety of the men and women alongside which they are fighting. So we passed a law last year to make that happen. We're coming back to improve it this in year. Because a lot of folks -- a lot of the illnesses that you'll find of the people who have been in service are now mental health as well as the kind of physical suffering that they've endured. And we're simply not fulfilling our responsibility, which I would call a moral responsibility, to the vets. And I hope everybody stays angry until be we put enough money on the table. And if it takes, frankly, a new tax or...