Comments on: General Grilled By Congress

Gen. John Abizaid Says Timetable For Exiting Iraq Would Increase Ethnic Violence

[august29of73-2009]

I am no editor, but shouldn't there be some quote marks somewhere in the second paragraph of this story?

[neitherone]

To cbscrash07

Attention American Citizen! You sons and daughters will continue serving in Iraq indefinitely while providing easy targets to Al-Qaida terrorists and further fueling the inter-religious conflict between Shiites and Sunnis. Have a nice day and enjoy thinking about it every day.

[angryliberal-2009]

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The more I see this unfold, the more it seems that the republicans lost on purpose so they can sit back and laugh at the dems while they try to figure out their "change" for Iraq....brillint strategy....if it works.


Dont get me wrong if the dems have and legit plan that can truly fix the problem in Iraq without losing the war...im all for it, but they havent a clur what to do...heck they just won an election without giving one plan for Iraq, why should it change now. All they will do is have "study" groups with the republicans and see what they say and try it....if it works they will take the credit, if it doesnt they will blame it on the republicans, but that will only work for so long.

lol, they have got themselves into a pretty big hole.

[angryliberal-2009]

Congrats American People....this is what we voted for.

now Carl Levin knows more about the Iraq war than our top general? THis is insane....

The democrats need to wake up and realize that this is a real war not polly pocket's political playhouse. Dont they have any...I mean any clue about the seriousness and reality of this situation? All these bone heads can come up with is pull out? That's smart...wow.

The only reason Carl Levin and these bone head dems are calling for a pull out is because they know it wont happen that way they can say the president wouldnt do what they wanted. They know it is a stupid ridiculoous, nonsensical idea to cut and run...this is all political, so they can blame the republicans for the problems in 2008.

They better be careful what they wish for, if we did pull out it would be political suicide for the dems because of the problems that it would cause.
This is a lose lose situation for the dems (why did they try to get involved in this?)

1. They dont do anything and people get ticked because they didnt fix the iraq problem

2. They do what they said and lose the war, cause more chaos in the middle east, and get bashed for that in 2008.

The more I see this unfold, the more it seems that the republicans lost on purpose so they can sit back and laugh at the dems while they try to figure out their "change" for Iraq....brillint strategy....if it works.

[cbelster]

The President has stated his goal in Iraq. I would note however, that goals have the following characteristics:

1. Specific
2. Measurable
3. Aligned
4. Reachable
5. Time bound

Though I certainly disagree with a 4 to 6 month drawdown, there is of course a requirement that some time constraints be applied to our goals. The inherent relationship between our military and its desire to achieve works contrary to a relationship with time.

The military will always to whatever it can to achieve a goal. Therefore, we must plan to succeed, work toward victory, but also create the conditions whereby we mitigate our risks in the region in the event that we fail to achieve that goal.

[one_american]

Corrupt crooks like Carl Levin want to pull the strings again in Washington.

What a serious mistake the American Voters made.

[Syndicate]

Attention Terrorist!! We will be leaving Iraq by July 4, 2007. Have a nice day and enjoy your new country.