Comments on: Senator: U.S. Needs "A Path Out Of Iraq"

Democrat Jack Reed Says Iraqi Government Will Not Move Forward Without A Timetable For U.S. Withdrawal

[stn_sage]

Lindsey Graham, as far as I can tell, has almost never been correct about anything connected to Iraq!

It''s not the increased number of soldiers that resulted in any temporary down tick in violence, but the enemy waiting us out!

And that''s all it is, a temporary situation, it looks like some of them are getting tired of waiting it out and are coming back to fight!

Mr. Graham has put his own reputation at stake since totally committing to the Iraq war. He''s already made himself look like a fool by being part of that group who claimed you can ''walk down Baghdad streets'' unmolested---while he was surrounded by the Army!
Unbelievable!

Now, he claims it would be a mistake to leave?! Are you kidding, ME?! The MISTAKE is that we have stupidly stayed there THIS LONG, people! Starting into the SIXTH year?!

He doesn''t care about our troops, he''s more concerned about his reputation! He''s a 21st century scoundrel, that''s all!

[alanrobisch]

gee this is a real shocker a democrat against the bush strategy in Iraq

[alphaa10-2009]

ainttaken said, "get of Iraq?
you must be crazy!
We are going into Iran.
If the Russians complain we will go into Russia
China is after that.
Dont ***** with us world"
---
Too late, "ainttaken"-- you are already repossessed.

[alphaa10-2009]

Bush-- Phantom of the White House

The most worrisome aspect of Bush alone is the lack
of any restraints on the powers he retains, which are still considerable. A lame duck president still has the powers and prerogatives of his office, and need not use the ever-present nuclear "football" to wield a very heavy stick as commander-in-chief.

This has implications ranging from another "super-surge" of troops for Iraq, to cross-border forays into Syria and/or Iran, to actual attack on Iran. The announcement of a troop surge in the face of Democratic objections not only formally began gridlock, last year, but some serious infighting
between Bush and congress.

(see Bush-- Phantom of the White House-- 2)

[alphaa10-2009]

Bush-- Phantom of the White House

The most worrisome aspect of Bush alone is the lack
of any restraints on the powers he retains, which are still considerable. A lame duck president still has the powers and prerogatives of his office, and need not use the ever-present nuclear "football" to wield a very heavy stick as commander-in-chief.

This has implications ranging from another "super-surge" of troops for Iraq, to cross-border forays into Syria and/or Iran, to actual attack on Iran. The announcement of a troop surge in the face of Democratic objections not only formally began gridlock, last year, but some serious infighting
between Bush and congress.

(see Bush-- Phantom of the White House-- 2)

[alphaa10-2009]

Bush-- Phantom of the White House-- 2

Without direct knowledge of what personally concerns
Bush on a daily basis, our concern should approach what Kissinger later expressed about Nixon, during the days Nixon brooded on the prospect of his own resignation.

Watching Nixon under such pressure, Kissinger was
genuinely and deeply worried about Nixon''s mental stability.

Whatever chemistry drives Bush, his relative lack of patience with detailed analysis, his preference for dramatic, sweeping gestures, and a thorough unfamiliarity with (and contempt for) the international community makes him a very unstable,
dangerous politician.

As isolation compounds his volatility, and led by self-confessed guidance from a "higher power",
Bush is threat to the nation, if not also to himself.

(see Bush-- Phantom of the White House-- 3 )

[alphaa10-2009]

Bush-- Phantom of the White House-- 3
The core dilemma is not that Bush failed in Iraq and everyone knows it-- the ultimate problem is Bush pursues his political destiny with a deep disdain for the beliefs and standards which make us American. This "self-made man" believes, instead, in power for the sake of power. Bush learned early that merit has
no necessary connection with political success. His choice of Karl Rove as political advisor embodies that attitude-- Rove is disciple to Donald Segretti, Nixon''s own "Dirty Tricks" chief.

We have only months left with Bush lurking about our political landscape. Our earnest wish should be that America confronts nothing worse than the perils of gridlock-- and hope that in moments of crisis, congress provides the voice and leadership
we have missed for so long.

[alphaa10-2009]

After hearing from blackwater66, could there be a more effective argument for leaving Iraq quickly?

[blackwater66-2009]

Don''t set no time tables, I need my good paying job here .Please elect John McCain for President he has a plan I like and support. We can''t leave now !!

[sek1026]

What if every American boycotted by not filing income tax returns to protest billions of our dollars going for the war? What will the US Govt do? Put us all in jail? Be like the 1960s where young boys burned their draft cards, we should have a 1040 day and meet and everyone just burn their tax returns. Oh, I forgot, we have to file a tax return to get our stimuli.

[jerr11]

THAT BUSH HOE PELOSI HAS TO GO!

How many more Americans have to die before we impeach the Liar-in-Chief!

935 LIES

4000 DEAD AMERICANS BECAUSE OF THOSE LIES!

IMPEACH THE LIAR!

[neobrian-2009]

Any Way You Look at This..
We MUST Get OUT of IRAQ !
Our Country`s Future is at stake!
BUSH has DESTROYED the USA!

[bozworth4]

Money is the oil that keeps the war machine running. Stop the money. No politician has the nerve to stop the money for fear of looking like we deserted our troops. but without the money I beleive our troops would want to come home. Because even they want to be paid!!! No republicans or democrats, only politicians that would pimp their mother for a euro.

[alphaa10-2009]

The USS "Surge" lists perilously nearer the waterline for its unsustainable imbalance of mutally-opposed forces-- a supposed coalition government actually dominated by Shia politics, a Kurdish leader, and a ministry of the interior staffed and run by Shia death squads and elements of the al Sadr army.

Iraq is once again revealed as a political fiction, and now effectively partitioned into Sunni, Kurd and Shia areas. Originally, "Iraq" was created for the administrative convenience of European powers after WWI. Today, it is maintained as a front for imperialist American occupation of an oil-rich country.

But leaving American and other outsiders where they belong-- outside-- what of the "Iraqis" themselves? Surrounded by armed and hostile states, there could not be a more untenable proposition for peace than to continue the pretense of a viable, independent and integrated Iraq.

When Iran finally takes control of the Shia areas is not an issue, but rather, how long Washington will struggle to maintain the fiction that American presence is pledged for the next 100 years. The way out of Iraq is the same way America went in-- to drop the fraudulent notion America somehow could "liberate" Iraq from itself. The argument we must continue with a debacle to avoid making it into a defeat is a mockery of both semantics and truth, itself.

[bluestardad]

NO BUSHIT BUCKOH!

HOW ABOUT NOT GIVING BUSHIT AND CHENEY A BLANK CHECK LIKE YOU HAVE FOR THE LAST 2 YEARS!

IF YOU LIKE THE MIDDLE EAST SO MUCH GO LIVE IN ISRAEL!

AMERICA STAND UP OR SHUT UP!

[timdgrim]

Bottom Line: Iraq is very profitable for America''s military industrial corporations. It will last for a very long time. Get used to it.

[gkc99]

"Hillary can end the war. She already has a plan"--Posted by truth-hurts

Let''s hear it.

Perhaps Hillary can pay more attention to it than Bill, who directed a cruise missile strike on the day his impeachment hearings started.

The next day there was no cruise missile strike. Bill''s attention had shifted again.

For 8 more years of that, Hillary has a lot of gall to ask.

Not to mention the gratuitous reference to Bill Richardson as "Judas" by her mouthpiece / surrogate Carville, one of the head architects of Clinton sleaze.

[heartlight3]

I think it is interesting that first they say we can''t bring the troops home until there is less violence in Iraq, then when the violence gets reduced they say we can''t bring the troops home because there is less violence. Sounds like they just don''t want to bring them home.