I'm watching these hearings. These Republicans are incredibly crazy!

BRING THEM HOME!

I long for the day when each political party will recognize and decry incompetence and poor leadership even if it is coming from one of their own. Right now, we have Republicans blindly supporting "their" president's failing policies and demonstrating no willingness to do what is right for America. The Democrats have done the same in recent times. I argue that this is the opposite of true patriotism. A patriot would not use cheap misdirection to avoid being accountable for and dealing with serious problems. It is very clear that we have few true patriots in our political system. MoveOn should take out another full page ad and correct itself: it is not our military that comprises the traitorous segment of our society; it is our politicians. If we replaced them all, perhaps the professional political caste would get the message...but I doubt it.

"I think all of us realize we're disappointed at where we are," Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) said at a hearing last week. Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) asked, "How do we get out of this mess?"

General Petraeus' testimony before Congress is expected to halt troop cuts in July, what is your assessment of the Iraq war?

http://www.youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=2049

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I long for the day when each political party will recognize and decry incompetence and poor leadership even if it is coming from one of their own. Right now, we have Republicans blindly supporting "their" president's failing policies and demonstrating no willingness to do what is right for America. The Democrats have done the same in recent times. I argue that this is the opposite of true patriotism. A patriot would not use cheap misdirection to avoid being accountable for and dealing with serious problems. It is very clear that we have few true patriots in our political system. MoveOn should take out another full page ad and correct itself: it is not our military that comprises the traitorous segment of our society; it is our politicians. If we replaced them all, perhaps the professional political caste would get the message...but I doubt it.

Posted by: mattr | April 8, 2008 12:38 PM

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Bravo.

The deceptions , the miscalculations, the total incompetence of those who took us into this war is sickening.
Imagine if at your job, in your life, you made mistakes of this proportion, where would you be?
That's why it is imperative that Cheney, Wolfewitz, Perle, Feith and their puppet Bush, not get away with this next january and just walk away.
They must be impeached, if not, somehow a permanent recognition of shame should be made in some way at least, for the blood and treasure these incompetent men have squandered.

For me it's simple. I never trust a man with a combover. And Gen. BetrayUs sports a particularly bad one.

Wait a minute!It's even worse than I thought. I viewed the video well and Gen. BetrayUs is wearing a hair hat!

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I wonder if someone can
answer the question:

Would we have gone to
war had the Clintons
not supported the Iraq
invasion.

This is HRC's war as
much as it is anyone's.

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I calculated that the value of a stack of dollar bills long enough to match the length of the moon's annual orbit around the earth is about 3 trillion dollars --- which is about the amount of our currentnational debt.

AMERICA HAS BEEN CONCURED FROM WITH IN, IT IS NO ACCIDENT THAT THE COUNTRY IS IN SUCH BAD SHAPE. AND THE BAND PLAYS ON.

Only one solution comes out of the hearing and that is term limits on Senators

Now is the time, if there ever was a time to go to the UN, claim stupidity (initial almost good idea, without solid plan, that flopped) - and ask for assistance in keeping the peace, and helping to rebuild Iraq into a good neighbor.

We thought we could do it alone, but after time, found out it was a much larger effort and we need help cleaning up our mistakes. Lets work together to help them get back on their feet, peacefully coexist in the modern world.

This is not a problem that will be easily fixed - the Democrats may claim to want to take action - but it will probably result in something not unlike D-Day - as we're pulling out - in an ambush - if the information is public knowledge. The safety of our troops depends on secret troop movements, not public information about where and when - for others to plan their attacks to hit us in the back as we leave.

This information needs to be handled behind closed doors and executed silently, and only after the last group leaves, then publish the fact that we're gone. Doing it publicly with a set date will only serve to aid planners on how to strike back or plan to usurp power, with a blood-bath, due to an ill equipped, small national army left to defend the new government.

Anyone in the military who dares to disagree with Bush is either forced to resign or decides to get out of the whole idiotic mess. Shinseki said - way back when - that it would take over a hundred thousand troops to secure Baghdad and he was forced to resign. Admiral Fallon disagreed with the plan for Iraq and he is resigning this summer after making his views known. Now we are left with Petraeus, who goes along to get along. And he will "know it when he sees it"! What the heck is IT?

Obama did a summary spin of what was already spoken by others before him...how he loves to copy others by polishing up what they say.

Embarassing, but no to him apparently, was his big announcement that he will talk with Iran! Had he been there or paid attention the Ambassador, Crocker, had already talked about 3 meetings he has had with Iran.

A polished phoney......a non Patriot....a socialist/commie sympathizer. Wast of time OBAMA DRAMA!

General Petraeus is just doing a job under the most difficult circumstances. He is not the one responsible for this mess. The ones responsible are the civilians who sent our troops on a mission that was not necessary for our national defense.

The people to get angry at are President Bush and his team, as well as those who out of sheer stubbornness still support and wish to perpetuate this obvious blunder.

Sean McM in case you hadn't noticed Crocker is an Ambassador, Obama is intending to be President. Might it just be a little bit more meaningful the President spoke on behalf of America?

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Their articles are like nothing I have read in any of the current media outlets. It is brilliant writing plus it offers a great community in which to discuss. The editor actually takes time to answer and the political humor section is awesome!!!

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Sean McM: There is no US Embassy or Ambassador to Iran. There is no formal diplomatic relationship between the USA and Iran. Crocker is not accredited to Iran, and you may be able to make a case he was not authorized to speak for the USA when he met with the Iranians.

If you're going to criticize, do it on the basis of fact. This was a case of Crocker attempting to mislead Congress and the American people regarding our relationship with Iran. Apparently he was able to mislead you.

I would like to see the republicans put on the defensive over the disaster that we are now facing in Iraq. Obama and Hillary both have the right idea by wanting to set a timetable for troop withdrawl. Check out Obama's comments to general Petraeus. He sounds a lot more experienced here then McCain did by confusing the Sunnis and the Shi'ites.

http://campaigncircus.com/video_player.php?v=9035