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Very funny and sad.

I wish Congress would grow a pair. The artificiality of the Petraeus report on Iraq progress really infuriates me. He says it's "irresponsible" to try to predict what troop strengths we'll have in Iraq after summer '08. I strongly disagree.

The one variable we CAN predict is how many people we keep in Iraq. And that number should be coming down much more expeditiously that we are currently planning.

This whole SURGE-and-PURGE smoke screen is just masking the status quo - we are keeping the same number of troops in Iraq into the foreseeable future.

We no longer have a compelling interest to keep troops in Iraq - so we should bring them home. Congress has the power of the purse, so they should make it clear that our appetite to continue to fund this war is limited and we should ramp down spending to zero over the next two years.

This is NOT a patriotic/support-our-troops issue. It's an issue of listening to the will of the people - and the people want this war to end.

Quoted: “We hope so, because the American public wants us to change course,” Senator Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who chairs the Armed Services Committee, said on CBS’s Face the Nation. “And what the president is offering is the illusion of change, not real change.”

Zbigniew (pronounced ZBIG-NEV) Brzezinski was on The Daily Show plugging his book Second Chance. He comes across as highly intelligent and articulate, even today (he's 78 years old).

The beginning of the end ... I hope.

Quoted: The House voted 246 to 182 today to denounce President Bush’s plan to send more American troops to Iraq. Two Democrats voted against the non-binding resolution.

Thumbnail: Two members of congress debating the Iraq Resolution.

Note by Cheney indicating that Bush may have been directly involved in using Libby to discredit Joseph Wilson. There's a crossed-out, but clearly legible, reference to "this Pres." as the origin of the request to Libby to smear Wilson.

Quoted: Dick Cheney: "not going to protect one staffer and sacrifice the guy this Pres. asked to stick his head in the meat grinder because of the incompetence of others."

Senator Joe Lieberman thinks we should all just shut up and not even debate our president's war strategy. I strongly disagree.

Quoted: To Joe Lieberman, anyone who opposes whatever Iraq plan he happens to be currently favoring is a frivolous, defeat-hungry traitor -- giving "some comfort [encouragement]" to the "enemy." He's really the Senate's modern-day Joe McCarthy, smearing everyone's character and impugning everyone's motives who doesn't march faithfully along behind the President.
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What is more pernicious than for a politician, in a Senate hearing with the country's new top General in Iraq, to expressly equate disagreement with their war views with treason?

Bob Woodward's new book seems like the most damning in his series of books covering the Bush Presidency, and our descent into war. 60-minutes interviewed Woodward last Sunday - the revelations were astounding. In secret, the administration knew that the war was getting increasingly violent, with the insurgency growing stronger every day.

In public, they are feeding the American People a story of hope and progress....stay the course.

The scariest thing is that Kissinger is back in the picture, and has become among the President and Cheney's closest advisors. Kissinger is playing out his "victory is the only option" plan that so failed him in Vietnam.

Quoted: Amazon.com: State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III: Books: Bob Woodward by Bob Woodward

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Frightening night time precision. You would NOT want to be on the receiving end of this attack. I hope these were "bad guys".

Quoted: Don't go out after curfew and deal in illegal weapon trades in Iraq! The US military from 5 miles away will snuff you out. Comments welcome but if you leftie liberal Mamma's boys with your balls in your harry arm girlfriends purses leave any of your America is bad shit your comments don't get approved and get dumped anyways! Comments here allowed for real men only so don't even wast your time.