Of course Bush is going to say the same thing over and over until he is out of office, I say help get him out of office the whole gang needs to be impeached, this Gonzales is just a puppet, the Dept of Justice had their policies changed by John Ashcroft, instead of the Lawyers at the Justice Dept are hamstrung with a new group of rules, in which anyone can interpt the lawyers jobs, a complaint by a Republician by so called Voter Fraud is not sent forward, even if there is no likelyhood of the case being won, kind of like the procescetor in the Lacross Team, this case was political from the beginning, the man only wanted to be in the public eye.

The administration would immediately fall on myth after myth, some people (like myself) do not believe what television news is being fed to us, we get lots of news about Anna Nacole Smith, the college student killer and all kinds of news that is news only to a certain portion of the public, the reason some things happen because someone is not paying attention, the officials at the top do not deal with the same problems as the teachers, and because they make more money consider themselves more important, in the mean time 32 people are dead because no one was really listening.

Madder than a wet hen in the state of Washington

There is good reason for Bush to be optimistic: his strategy for victory is proceeding exactly as planned.  For Bush, Cheney, Rice, et al, the number of deaths, whether American or Iraqi is totally irrelevant to the progress toward the ultimate goal: untrammeled control of Iraqi oil.  If that requires the complete and utter destruction of the country and its people, so be it.  The debate in this country as to when we will leave Iraq is a farce.  We will NEVER leave.  Exxon-Mobil wll not permit it.

The truth lay a little deeper.  The reaction of the Shiite and Sunni millitant groups is to be expected.  They find themselves being stripped of their power in the area.  The only thing they can be expected to do is to strike back at any target available.  They cannot face US soldiers directly and win, and with more of them arriving everyday, leaving them with less and less room to work with they will strike out at any target they can.  This is to be expected and does not mean the surge is working or not working.  Wether the surge is working or not?  That is still going to take some time to figure out.  Pacifists and peacemongers should be happy to know that this is all part of the plan to remove troops by next year.  The thinking is that if we remove the larger part of the millitant groups then the Iraqi security forces will be able to take over and we can have very limited US forces in Iraq providing support.  I cannot claim to know if this will work or not, but all you have to do is read the council on Iraq’s reccomendations from earlier this year (remember, the one everybody poo-pooed including Bush Jr.) and you will see a striking resemblance to what we are doing now.  I’d like to see our kids come home too, but the events of the last 2 weeks don’t really tell us anything other than we have put some pressure on at least a few millitant groups.

Iraq is not our nation or our responsibility and as long as their violence is against each other it isn’t our business either.

The only good that should come out of Iraq for the American people is the clear warning of what happens when the Religous in a country decide they wish to force themselves upon their co-citizens, regardless of what the co-citizens want. It is a clear warning of the Religious strife that we will have in this country if George Bush continues with his campaign to turn our government into a fundamentalist, authoritarian government, something it has never been in our entire history.

As for the people of doubtful virtue that we have tried to make the government of Iraq, they have no constituency and will fall the moment we leave,which is as it should be.

REPEAT AFTER ME! “The surge is working! We are winning the hearts and minds of the uh! uh! Iran? Irag? peoples!” your truly “vice” war president, F-You Cheney

One fool lies and another swears to it. al-Maliki can have a job in the Bu$h administration anytime he wants it. Oh, sorry - he already does.