To make wars or not to make wars!
To withdraw or not to withdraw!
These are two perpetual questions that will always be with us as long as lackeys are allowed to hold important public offices!

Funny how these announcements don’t jibe with reality.  Everything about this war seems so manufactured, one big coverup after another.  Was killing Saddam Hussein worth this--all these lives, our economy, a country’s physical and cultural structures--it seems like one big sinkhole that is sucking us and the mideast down in it.  I for one want to see the debate on this war; I want it to be vigorous, deep, and wide-reaching.  Like most Americans, I want the truth to come out once and for all.

Withdrawal or no withdrawal; that sun may not shine in the court yard of Iraqis that may give the light and hope for the peace in their forsaken land.

*The oppressors, my killers, they don’t change.Only they change, their faces and flags.
*What a journey of mine?  All the spans and miles stones that I traverse also travel with me.

You’re right P.T. We did know this was coming. Not a surprise at all, (not that it would happen anyway..withdrawal that is). I knew as soon as I saw the blub on the reader yesterday, exactly what this was about.

Actually, I’m more curious about all of the detox ads on this page. There’s like 4 detox ads for heroine/opiates on this page, along with one for the Patreus Report. I’ve never seen anything like that here. Wonder what it means?

I mean, I’m not naive or anything, but is heroine addition that much of a problem for truthdig readers? Or, is it indicative of some positive change in the political winds, that after 8 years, folks can actually consider giving it up? (the dope that is)

Just wondering.

I propose Gen Petraeus for The William Westmoreland award for bullshit sold as policy.He has replaced Tony Blair as Bush’s poodle.These so called military leaders who are only concerned about kissing the wallets of their superiors instead of the men serving under them will be villified in “Dereliction Of Duty Part 2”.What a shame we will have to wait 20 years to villify these lackeys but it is the American way.

And why we have to believe this highly-decorated general, with such childish colorful insignias, when his boss, the so-called Commander-in-Chief, has been lying to the nation for eight long years?!

One possible difference might be that while his boss lied in white and black, Petraeus lies are in colors to resemble his childish insignias!

We’ve been through this before.  Remember, in 1972, it was Henry Kissinger with “peace is at hand.”