Comments on: The War In Iraq And The War At Home

The Skinny: WSJ Poll Finds Public Backs Congress In Showdown With President

[realpatriot1]

ckcool,

What's especially crazy about going into Iraq without a plan for the occupation is not just that they ignored the military leadership telling them the risks and the requirements and that they spent over a year planning and talking about the war before going in, but that they were in such a rush
they couldn't wait another month for the weapons inspectors to complete their work.

Now they want to stay indefinitely and they dfon't want to try anything but what has already failed.

At least when LBJ realized he was an impediment to peace he had the decency to resign. When Nixon realized he was busted he resigned and in exchange for Ford becoming President. These folks have NO DECENCY! They don't care about the country or what they're doing to it.

[randalds]

"The White House insists the Iraq troop buildup is working, but the U.N. and Iraqis themselves say it isn't. A Wall Street Journal poll shows Americans are skeptical, too."

This leaves only one real question. Is Bush lying about what he sees as progress in Iraq or is he genuinely delusional? Is he genuinely mentally ill? Any dispassionate observer could only conclude that the president of the United States is mad. As in crazy. All of his life he has gotten his way as a spoiled child of a very elite and wealthy family. Every time there has been someone there to clean up after his messes and buy off the injured. Now he is finally being told NO for perhaps the very first time in his life and he can not handle it.

He is insane. He is mentally ill. He is sick and he needs to be removed from office for our sake and for his own.

[r9119111]

JKAtkinson:

Thank you, JK. You have come to your senses. I am encouraged by your honesty. Unfortunately, there are still numerous hard working Americans who need to wake up to what has happened in our country these past years. We've all been had!

[bluestardad]

Contact your elected officials http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
The middle East is not in American Interest, we have invested 50 years of blood, money enough is enough! We cannot want peace for the Middle East more than those who live there!

Israeli Neocons are causing our Elected officials to fight their wars in Proxy! They are bragging in their advertisements read below. Follow the money do not take my word for it see how many Congressmen are influenced by AIPAC money and how they are voting on Iraq!

http://www.aipac.org/forms/join_aipacClubs.htm

Bush Funds Al Qaeda here is the stream read it yourself!

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/070305fa_fact_hersh


50 YEARS OF SACRIFICE IN THE MIDDLE EAST IS ENOUGH! These little Neocons should be taken out and hung along with all their entire families for all the loss of American Life they have caused over the years! They are causing a back lash against Israel one of our allies in the Middle East. But then this NEOCON MEDDLING is the very thing that caused Jews to be persecuted in Europe. They got in politics without regards to the feelings of those they trampled over until the countries have had enough then they rose up and killed six million of them. Israeli Neocons are causing our Elected officials to fight their wars in Proxy! They are bragging in their advertisements read. Follow the money do not take my word for it see how many Congressmen are influenced by AIPAC money and how they are voting on Iraq!

[shingles1]

What does "winning" even mean anyways?

[bigal321321]

The right wing posters here really amaze me. We must win. It seems more important than dying soldiers. Seems to me they have no morals. Winning is not everything. We have a Vietnam Memorial to prove that. I would rather loose than kill more of our brave young men and women. Somewhere, the right's sense of right and wrong seem all screwed up. Control the populace with fear. It's all they seem to have....just ask Rudy.

[karlimhof]

Borack "HUSSEIN" Obama and the rest of the Surrendercrats are putting Politics in front of supporting the troops.

Posted by didntinhale (but swallows)


get your medication and RNC koolaid today?

[ckcool192000]

My opinion of the whole mess, is this. Bush went into Iraq without a plan. Once Saddam was removed from power, he could not give the military a direction. There is no plan. Anyone with half a brain would not start something without knowing how to end it.

It would be like one of us getting into our car and driving somewhere that we have never been before, completely without directions, maps or GPS, and instead of stopping and asking for direction, we just keep driving hoping that one day we would see something we recognize.

That is what is happening in Iraq, our soldires are out there fighing every day, but the problem is that there is no clear plan, there are no clear missions. There is nothing that tells them when there mission will be accomplished and they will be able to come home.

This bill is the first attempt to give a direction a map if you will to the conflict in Iraq. It gives the military a direction. It gives the Bush administration a direction to go in Iraq. It is an attempt to organize this war.

I ask you what is wrong with trying to organize our troops and efforts in Iraq which is costing tax payers millions every day that we are over there?

[bizzzz-2009]

IF WE WITHDRAWL, MARK MY WORDS, JUST AS CERTAIN AS I AM POSTING THIS COMMENT, WE WILL BE GOING BACK. Just as we did this time, after not removing Saddam after the first Gulf War, when the hoards of terrorists set up base in Bagdad, WE WILL BE FORCED TO GO BACK.
The Democrats, just as they make American government complicated with programs and services to accommodate every individual that ever complained about a problem, they now are accommodating the anti war crowd by declaring defeat and withdrawing early.
I am a veteran of the first Gulf War. When I talk to Marines that were in the first Gulf War and now are fight this one, you don't know how frustrating it is to them that we didn't "take care of business the first time"
Why should we withdraw when we'll be definitely be going back? IF WE WITHDRAW EARLY, I BET MY LIFE SAVINGS IN FIVE YEARS WE'LL GO BACK. UNFORTUNATELY, IT WILL PROBABLY BE UNDER CONDITIONS 10 TIMES MORE BRUTAL THAN NOW.

[frankly6]

notblue



Bu$hco absolutely manipulated and cherry picked the inteligence to make his case for war. He was told months before he cited the forged Niger documents in his state of the union speach that they were bogus. When Condi Rice was asked how this ended up in the speach after they were informed the documents were forged, she said "we forgot".


Bu$hco was also informed by nuclear experts at the department of energy that the aluminum tubes could not be used to enrich uranium. Again, they falsely represented the tubes as evidence of Sadam's nuclear ambitions.

Bu$hco also was told by the CIA that there was no real evidence of Sadam's connection to Al Qaeda. They asserted this anyway.

Bu$hco also set up the "Office of Special Plans" to cook the books and fabricate intelligence when the evidence that they were getting from the real
intelligence community was so thin. This was a group of Republican political hacks who had no experience in intelligence whatsoever and yet they were responsible for producing intelligence for Bu$hco.



No blather, no conspiracy theories, just historical fact.