What Lieberman's Defeat Really Means

The voters are getting the message that encumbent politicians are arrogant and are dedicated to their own agendas rather than doing their job, which is supposed to be representing the interests of their constituents, and the people in general. Lieberman's "screw you" attitude shows clearly with his decision to forge ahead as an Independent. Who is Lieberman really representing? Not Americans that is for sure. For how can you support a war that was forged from lies and agendas? If he would have said, I supported the war because I was given faulty information, that could be forgiven, up to a point. I know there are some who are against war in general, any war not matter how necessary it might be to most rational people. Lieberman does not fit this category. There are those who would only support a war because of an attack, such as Japan did in WWII. Such is not the case regarding Iraq. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 nor did it in anyway have the means to threaten the destruction of the U.S.. Iraq was impotent, as illustrated by it's inability to shoot down even one of the planes that were flying over its country everyday for years. Iraq was only a threat to Israel, and even in this case could not have done much damage, being limited by U.S. and British flyovers. But due to the paranoia of the Bush Administration that was sufficient grounds to attack Iraq. After all fellow Democracies must stick together against Arab dictatorships.
There is Lieberman, and others, who continue to support the war because they still believe the lies that were told to them, and they were lies because the "facts" were not possible. Drones do not fly 6-7 thousand miles; nor do aluminum tubes by themselves make centrifuges. Then there is the "Israel is an ally in the region" justification.
What is the U.S. getting in return for the hundreds of billions of dollars and all the lives lost that it has spent helping and defending Israel. Israel's existence in the region is of little strategic significance to the U.S. if every other country in the region wants it's destruction and blames the U.S. for not allowing them to do so. We might not have enemies in that region, or elsewhere, if it were not for the U.S. defending and supporting Israel. We had friendly relations with the Arabs before 1948, so why today's hostility? In order to solve a problem the reasons for the problem need to be recognized and brought out into the open. Solutions require honesty. So far all anyone hears is propaganda; from both sides.