What a Crock...Dec 7th, 2006 - 02:04:05

A veritable smoke and mirrors act.

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ChicagoDec 7th, 2006 - 02:18:43

I really wish someone would ask Cheney what he will have Bush do.

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a soldier in actionDec 7th, 2006 - 02:25:59

The government realized they fail, now they want out so they just blame someone else for their mistake.

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MalcolmDec 7th, 2006 - 02:40:56

So the U.S. is now ready to pull out of a country it invaded, in the most flagrant and grievous violation of international law since Saddam invaded Kuwait? They will leave after destroying the infrastructure of the country, after 600,000 civilians and soldiers have been killed, either by Americans, British or in sectarion strife that was unleashed in the absence of an effective post-conflict plan for security. Having destroyed another country, the Americans are now ready to cut out because 3000 of their soldiers have died. Well you should have thought of that before you voted for the fools responsible for this immoral war. You Americans should never again ask why the world harbours hostility towards you. Each and every American that voted for Bush ought to be sorely ashamed of his/herself. Shame on you.

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ceekiewDec 7th, 2006 - 04:13:45

The panel essentially confirms the failings of Bush, which the world knows other than his blind and deaf supporters. From day one Bush has been a pseudo leader. If 41 is the effective cause behind the study to save junior's face, junior could be forced into implementing the recommendations after a brief period of 'resistance' for public relations purposes. Junior and his team are forced to eat crow in public view. By any standard of measurement, he will be embarrassed by a very public revelation of his failed foreign policy with respect to Iraq in particular, and the Middle East in general. Bush is finished as a leader, his credibility in in tatters, and his ability to govern effectively very much in serious doubt. He is not even a lame duck. This duck is paralyzed.

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Middle EyeDec 7th, 2006 - 04:53:22

The majority of Iraqis have voiced their desire for democracy by virtue of their democratically elected government. How were they (or the US, or the Brits) to know that an extremist minority within their ranks would behave like such animals. The reality is, most violence in Iraq is Muslim against Muslim, not coalition against Iraqi. To blame the US for a possible failed state in Iraq is inane. Responsibilty for the current crisis must ultimately be shouldered by those extremist opportunists who seek to overthrow the Iraqi people's burgeoning government by means of terror in their bid to establish a Somali style Shari'a coup.

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The Blue MaxDec 7th, 2006 - 12:27:39

Gentlemen, In my lifetime, any toilet I've ever seen has had a handle on it and yet Iraq is still around. I wake each morning hoping to see the headlines read ' Sheites all dead, Sunnis looking for other targets.' Nearly 3000 of our men and women killed to salve the Alfred J Newman look alikes ego. What a tragedy.

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Dave AnthonyDec 7th, 2006 - 13:18:53

I really question the intelligence and education of our nation's leadership. Did any of these guys take any history? Certainly the so-called experts in our government did didn't they? Did anybody listen to them? I am reminded of the old Abbott and Costello 'Who's on first?' routine. I don't think anyone in power in either party has a clue. This commission spends months and millions of tax dollars to make observations and reach conclusions that should have been done before the first soldier set foot in Iraq a few years back. Oh well, what's several hundred billion dollars down the drain - it's not our money. How do we justify the death and suffering of the soldiers? As George Will said in an editorial -- 'for what?'. This is the 2nd time in my life I have seen my government take its citizens for granted and exploit them while good men died in wars we had no intention of winning. What's the old saying about 'fool me once shame on me, fool me twice shame on you'? Our leaders better start thinking real hard about 'strike 3' and who is going to be willing to go to bat for a government so full of cynical opportunists.

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Sprintracer4Dec 7th, 2006 - 20:38:24

Let me see if I understand this correctly: Someone objects to an open-ended commitment in Iraq, predictably the same folks who object to a conflict in the first place.

Now, with some ambitious dems and republicans, they do this.... vaudeville act... to distance themselves from the issue, for 2008.

541 elected officials, thousands of federal employees, and they need a study group...

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FrankDec 7th, 2006 - 23:01:08

The USA with only 6% of the worlds total population, uses, annually. 25% of the worlds Oil Production and to date even outstrip China as the worlds biggest carbon polluters.
The discussions on Monsters and Critics, are often on average, months ahead of the media.. and are a fertile ground for journalists.....
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/

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Get RealDec 8th, 2006 - 04:27:28

Sprintracer,

I've read your rants on this forum for some time now.

If the war in Iraq was so damned justified, so utterly neccessary, why the hell aren't you over there fighting?

Or, do you prefer to continue to tell the rest of us why our son's and daughters need to be there.

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Rev. Dr. Rodney E. LangleyDec 8th, 2006 - 04:29:44

Congress: Stop Funding the Iraq War.

When you choke a horse with wads of money, it makes it easier to swallow more the next time. The horse is being fed far too much, and too often.

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