Comments on: Poll: GOP Put Politics Over Safety

Most Respondents Think GOP Leaders Knew About Foley's Explicit E-Mails

[j-whitman]

Leading war republicans say "Let's stop making Iraq a political issue", yet what do we have now? "No new plan untill after November elections"?

[tulcak]

oh, and by the way, republican posters - this is NOT Fox news, so, you will hear BAD things about your party. if you want to hear pretty things, go to Fox news where you can fixate.

[tulcak]

corruption is the byword for republicans - its how they operate. they don't care about what's good for our country - just that they retain power by corruption.

the republicans can bleat over and over that the democrats have no plan. the democrats do have a plan - its just that to accept this plan, the republicans will have to finally admit they are wrong and relinquish control. They would rather "stay the course" right over the cliff than to do what is right and lose power.

[gslinger3]

"CBS has a number conservative commentators on their staff and always airs both sides of an issue"

THEY DO?

HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!! Great joke!!

[j-whitman]

Let's see now,, Leading republicans say Iraq nor Afaganistan cannot be defeated by our military, We send diplomats to North Korea with no negotiating tools,,, We have to question Bush's war on terror. Today we here more spin on how successfull Bush is???? Come on now republicans,, stop damaging our national security.

[huskerarmy]

McFarling,

"All I want from CBS or any news organization is truth and basic fairness."

So you single out CBS because of it's history covering the civil rights movement when righties began calling it "coloreds Broadcasting System," and you never let up. CBS has a number conservative commentators on their staff and always airs both sides of an issue. Since those traits absolutely do not apply to FOX, one wonders why you would rail on CBS and not Fox?

[gslinger3]

This Question goes out to all Liberals....


WHERE ARE YOUR IDEAS?

Again, WHERE ARE THEY? AM I MISSING SOMTHING IN THIS DEBATE?

You do a wonderful job of name calling bashing our president and our congress, I give you an A+ on that, but there is somthing profound missing in your message............IDEAS!!!!!!

THERE ARE NONE........ZERO.........NADA!!!!!

just an observation. ha ha

[osidebear]

Mr. McFarling hits the nail on the head without realizing it. He talks about putting the war in "context," which to him means comparing the numbers of war dead in various battles and conflicts. To those of us opposed to this needless war of choice, 3000 dead Americans (not to mention, as Mr. McFarling doesn't) the 100,000 dead Iraqis, mostly civilians) is price too high to pay.

Mr. McFarling speaks of stabilizing Iraq and creating a "democratic beachhead" there. It's hard to see that those two things are being accomplished, or can be given what we know (and what tbis administration should have known) about the sectarian and ethnic differences between the people of Iraq.

And, as many supporters of this war do, Mr. McFarling equates the fight in Iraq with a fight for freedom. Whose? Ours? I don't see that. The insurgents in Iraq tend not to be the jihadists who attacked us on 9/11, although our continued presence there creates more of these all the time.

Take of the red, white, and blue sunglasses, sir. There is nothing noble or patriotic about fighting for a poorly-planned and ultimately self-defeating policy.

[huskerarmy]

"...CBS has no time or room in their stories for context when thay are beating up Mr. Bush and helping the Democrats turn public opinion against the war, and by extention, the President."

Sad that neo-cons can only imagine Americans turning against this war because we are lead like sheep. The real sheep it seems are the ones who support a war based on lies and deceipt even long after the truth has been exposed and evidence demonstrates that it is making us weaker in our ability to fight terrorism.

"Do you think the Networks fixation on casualties is a good thing for a country at war?"

Do you honestly think that hiding the casualties and the real pictures of the war that the rest of the world is seeing helps? I would hate to go to court and have the judge tell me that I can't show evidence because of no other reason that its graphic representation of the truth.

As a veteran, I very much appreciate the "cost of freedom." But my views are not dictated by bumper sticker slogans. What we are seeing in Iraq my friend... has little to do with freedom.

[newsjeff-2009]

I have said this before and I will say it again. "Former President Bill Clinton is a retired U.S. President, not the current president". The issues that I think voters are looking at is not just Rep.Foley, but also the fact that secretary of state C.Rice possibly had a pre-warning notice of the planned attack on Sept.11,2001 and failued to do nothing about it, and I am not just saying that Ms.Rice deserves all of the blame, remember she was appointed by George W. Bush and confirmed by other GOP political leaders. If Rice and some of the members of the GOP party had a pre-warning about the Sept.11,2001 attack and did not push for tighter border patrol laws or tougher immigration laws to protect America from terrorist potentially entering this country, then that is not Bill Clinton's fault. Clinton's duties and responsiblities as president were over after January 21,2001. "Bill Clinton is not going to be the president after January 21st,2001, it is going to be George W. Bush" this quote made by President Bush himself and supported by the republican party.