[West Coast Conservative]

Also, according to TNR, Lieberman is a possibility to take over from Rumsfeld.

But with Powell's departure, what members of the Bush team knew as soon as the first shot was fired in the Iraq war became apparent to the nation at large: The argument has been settled in the latter's favor. Not because of the Pentagon's bureaucratic weight (Rumsfeld and the neoconservatives around him will be departing soon enough--replaced, in all likelihood, by a Senator, perhaps even Joe Lieberman).

[SNIP]

Nor will the expected departure of Rumsfeld and his lieutenants at the Defense Department dilute the president's robust foreign policy preferences. Were a Joe Lieberman or, by an outside chance, Paul Wolfowitz catapulted to the top Pentagon post, the new defense secretary may end up promoting an even more aggressive foreign policy stance than the president himself. But, even at the cabinet level, ideology's no longer the point.

TNR

[Defiant]

What has the TNR been smoking?

[Ditto]

Unless I'm mistaken, Lieberman has no military service. I don't think there has ever been a Sec of Defense who didn't serve at lease some time in uniform.