Comments on: Woodward: Military Brass Opposed Surge

Also Tells 60 Minutes U.S. Has Secret Military Capability; And That U.S. Has Been Spying On Iraq's PM

[liberalamer]

I am appalled by the audacity of Woodward and CBS to show that they value so poorly our Nation as to actively work to undermine the well being of citizens, specifically our troops - you disgust me. Why would you give our Military Secrets to our enemies?? I am boycotting CBS & will inform commercial sponsors as well

[nzrqv7]

So once again we learn that Bush doesn''''t listen to his top military advisors, but does what HE wants instead.

Whether the Surge worked or not--they still haven''''t reached all the objectives--we''''ve still been in Iraq for 5+ years and have wasted hundreds of billions of dollars there. Iraq will always be known as Bush''''s Folly.


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Posted by gce65 at 07:16 PM : Sep 07, 2008

Lincoln did the same thing. So did FDR. So did Truman. That''s why they are called the Commander-In-Chief.

For people like you, there is absolutely nothing, short of resignation or death, that Bush can do correctly. While many may not like him, be big enough to give credit where credit is due. Bush was using the resources he had available to make tough decisions. You and I can armchair quarterback this, but as Woodwards article makes abundantly clear...you, I, and everyone else really don''t have a clue as to what is going on.

[ilroy]

I can''t believe how biased 60 minutes and CBS has become. They are selling out our country with their leftist bias slants. Shame on CBS. As always, shame on Woodward.

[ggforo]

I listened to Woodward and Pelli for a few minutes and it literally made me ill. Who do you think you are helping or educating by running this story? You really frighten me, as a mother of a Marine, this reporter, author and producers are not Americans in my eyes. I''ll write my feelings to your sponsors too. God, you should be so ashamed, all.

[littlewilly9]

Woodward should be charged with treason and collaborating with the enemy. Does he think that noone overseas reads our newspapers or watches our television. All he does is bring down the morale of our troops and has never backed our country. He got lucky with Nixon but what has he actually done for the country?

[gce65]

So once again we learn that Bush doesn''t listen to his top military advisors, but does what HE wants instead.

Whether the Surge worked or not--they still haven''t reached all the objectives--we''ve still been in Iraq for 5+ years and have wasted hundreds of billions of dollars there. Iraq will always be known as Bush''s Folly.

[mrflavor69]

Scientists to study synthetic telepathy

Researchers get grant to develop communication system based on thoughts, not speech.

Irvine, Calif., August 13, 2008

University of California, Irvine:

"A team of UC Irvine scientists has been awarded a $4 million grant from the U.S. Army Research Office to study the neuroscientific and signal-processing foundations of synthetic telepathy".

http://www.daprocess.com

[mrflavor69]

Scientists to study synthetic telepathy

Researchers get grant to develop communication system based on thoughts, not speech.

Irvine, Calif., August 13, 2008

University of California, Irvine:

"A team of UC Irvine scientists has been awarded a $4 million grant from the U.S. Army Research Office to study the neuroscientific and signal-processing foundations of synthetic telepathy".

http://www.daprocess.com

[dougg27]

What?!! Our military has secret capabilities??!! Well duh!! I sure HOPE so!!! What a buffoon!

While my first reaction was to wish Mr. Woodward would stumble upon one of our special forces folks in a dark alley...I take solace in the hope that our military leadership is right now laughing uncontrollably over their success in feeding him misleading information. Knowing his liberal & treasonous tendencies, they could easily be "playing" him in order to get into the heads of enemy leaders.

Either way...Traitor Bob and 60 Minutes don''t come off looking so good in my book!

[khanghi-2009]

Once again, you have ALL missed the point!

"It''s the liberals!"
"No! It''s the conservatives!"
"It''s the left!"
"It''s the right!"

Actually boys and girls, it''s the IDIOTS that refuse to educate themselves! Go read PNAC and then come back when you realize that BOTH sides of the aisle are populated by treasonous ****** that should tried for selling out our country to big business. (Oil)

Until then, you''re ALL just drinking the Kool-aid!

[beemerburner]

ONCE AGAIN, Woodward helps to destroy America and give aid to those we are after. He should be taken into custody with charges of Treason brought against him. His source (s) should have the same fate. Upon being found guilty, nothing less then the Death Penalty should be sanctioned! Thank you Woodward for making the U.S. WEAKER!!!

[longbowah64]

Well here you go again. I have finally decided that we are no longer to view any of the CBS shows and I like others have decided that buying anything from your sponsors makes no sense. If they agree with you and your obvious bias I can be biased too. NO More MONEY from me or any member of my family. Simple, but I suddenly feel good about NOT needing those products in my life!

[anonymous197]

Oh, and Nickoleto... again, read a little more. DIA doesn''t have a robust S&T. That would be outsourced to PRIVATE COMPANIES. DIA doesn''t do tech exploitation either you ****. You''ve seen too many movies.

[anonymous197]

Nicklento, your ignorance not only of the geo-political situation but also of basic human nature is astounding. We (humanity) has been in a state of war with brief periods of peace throughout our known history. It must pain you to actually THINK. We need advantages in this world to SURVIVE. We don''t need to look to Russia OR China for approval.

[jjworleyeoe-2009]

nicklento, you need to pay more attention to why the bad guys hate us. They hate us, among other reasons, because the we believes in secular governments. They hated us before 9/11, before the original WTT bombings, before we kicked Saddam out of Kuwait, before the Iranian Revolution, before the CIA coupe of Iran, before Israel became a state, and on and on. So while the Bush administration''s willingness to fight the bad guys on their own turf is creating new Jihadist, at least its taking them out and not letting them have safe havens to plan their next big attack. Finally, a big love fest isn''t going to bring these bad guys to the negotiating table either.

[jjworleyeoe-2009]

nicklento, you need to pay more attention to why the bad guys hate us. They hate us, among other reasons, because the we believes in secular governments. They hated us before 9/11, before the original WTT bombings, before we kicked Saddam out of Kuwait, before the Iranian Revolution, before the CIA coupe of Iran, before Israel became a state, and on and on. So while the Bush administration''s willingness to fight the bad guys on their own turf is creating new Jihadist, at least its taking them out and not letting them have safe havens to plan their next big attack. Finally, a big love fest isn''t going to bring these bad guys to the negotiating table either.

[nilent]

A humanity that buys into a paranoia based "security" will wind up extinct as we kill each other off in all manner of new ways and for all manner of new "reasons".

Love may not be "all you need"; but it sure is a good place to start from.

The Bush/McCain/Rove/Admiral Poindexter model for "security" isn''t, in the long run, much different from that of Joseph Stalin. Only now the art/technology of being able to kill anyone anywhere anytime has been refined to more of a "science".

Congratulations, George Bush!

What good is it if we "win the war" by simply killing everyone who stands in our way if we end up losing our souls as Americans???

And let us not forget that Russia and China just might object to our new found killing capabilities.

Sorry folks; we humans will either learn to live peacefully together on this planet or we will become extinct.

[nilent]

Hmmmmm, lets see, what could it be?

How about micro-miniaturized cameras/microphones numbering in the millions that wirelessly send the data to massive computers programmed with AI to screen every word spoken and every face seen so that "suspicious" talk and wanted individuals can be spotted, isolated and "taken out"? (Hey wait, aren''t those called cell phones! ;-)

If it doesn''t exist now; you can be sure someone in DIA is working on it.

Unfortunately, real/long term security can never be obtained by military means.


Real global security comes from universal peace, prosperity, freedom and the diligent practice of common human decency.

Kucinich''s idea of a department of peace is a good one.

Ironically, the violence and spiritual degradation of a militaristic authoritarian dictatorship in which people obey out of fear is that it breeds the very terrorism that it pretends to be opposed to.

[kevitivity]

When is 60 minutes going to have McCain and Palin on?