Interesting that this report fails to mention what other news organizations are reporting:

Brian, the Republican congressman then went on to say, "The word about the war and its progress cannot come from the White House or even you, Mr. President. There is no longer any credibility. It has to come from Gen. Petraeus."

Failing to note that even Republicans know Bush to be a pathological liar is a clear example of ABC's right-wing bias.

Bush is not about to hand Iraq to Iran on a silver platter, just because some lawmakers are getting uncomfortable. If the Muslims can scare us out of Iraq, what is next? Afghanistan? Spain? A middle east unified against the U. S. would be formidable.

The bulk of his advice should come to this: "Repent, for the hour is near." That is the opinion of some in any event. People have been expressing that opinion for over two millenia, and many have heeded it's advice. Still others think it is nonsense. In any event, just thought it should be passed along for no one to read.

I am very much surprised that people are supporting George Bush. As far as I can see he is worst that Hitlar or any other cruel leaders. Now 100's are dying everydayin Irag and Afghanistan and I am wondering how can he sleep in the night. He says is a Born Again again and he do not know the Bible ABC. Why impeach him right now. Do not wait atleast we can some people. By the way I am not a muslim or radical but ordinary law abiding practising christian.

A representative of the Iraq government name al-Rubaie dropped by Washington yesterday to mollify the shaky congress. Instead, he painted a very depressing picture of the government's expectation. Give us time without pressure he said. And give us a Navy, an Air Force and everything we need to be a country again. His thinking, with respect to progress, was spelled out in terms of decades and trillions of dollars in aid. And this is what Bush and Cheney call progress? It's time to leave Iraq to the Iraqis and well past time to start impeachment against Bush and Cheney.

I am amazed that all you libs ignore the facts. You only live by emotion. It's time to lay aside your hatred of President Bush and all your emotion and start to think in logical, common sense terms with reason. It's time for you to think about what our objections should be and what will be the consequences of any actions. Do we want an Iraq that is ruled by Iran or Al Qaeda? Will that leave us with major regional problems? Will Iraq then be a launching pad against us and our allies like Israel?

A few counter points from the above dribble… Reagan's economic plan (tax cuts) led this country into the greatest prosperity in our history. Even the 90's boom was the result of Reagan. The reason the deficit soared (listen, here comes facts), is because Democratic controlled Congress spent money and then spent more money like the treasoners that they are. The tax revenue almost doubled from the time Reagan started his first term until he left office. Unfortunately, spending was out of control. Reagan wanted the "line item veto" because the dems always had pork in every bill. Traitors!

I'm done here, I can't answer all the above posts. I have a life.

i am just a plain american citizen that tries to keep up with national and international news. i could never understand why the officials in washington voted to allow this war to ever get started. i could see this mistake a mile off, yet washington okayed it. a "do nothing,go along with the flow" attitude. viet nam all over again. want to know how to solve two of the biggest problems that we americans face, iraq war and illegal immigration? draft all illegal immigrants into the army. send them to iraq thereby earning u.s. citizenship. they would come back as heros.

I WAS a supporter of Geroge Bush in the beginning and now that he has proven himself to be a liar, I have totally lost my respect for this so called American Leader. He does live inside a bubble and if he thinks this war can be won he is dead wrong. I agree that to pull the troops out now would have global effects all over the world, but to keep them there will probably have the same effects. He is not a born again Christian, he is the devil in disguise.

As a member of the military I am glad to see my elected officials are finally questioning our Iraq occupation. We have almost totally forgotten the hunt for Bin Ladin and the War on Terror with this occupation of Iraq. Saddam was a brutal murderous SOB but he kept the Iranians out of Iraq! Even this Republican can say the administration made the biggest foreign policy error in modern history. How long do you arm chair generals want our kids to die fighting these second rate insurgents and let the true masterminds of 9-11 run free?

America cannot intervene with every single defect within the planet's boundaries. We cannot fix something that is not necessarily broken. If the Berlin wall worked for the East and West, and the Great Wall for China and Mongolia, maybe it will work for this case as well.. If you keep seperating two kids from fighting without giving them the incentive to work things out themselves, there will always be a sense of resentment between the two, for not having exactly what they want, by means of comprimise, not FORCE!

First-- The insurgency is in its last Throes -- Lie # 1
Second-- There are wmd's lie #2
Third- from The Aircraft carrier deck -Mission accomplished Lie#3

Sign Posted on the Oval office doorway---
Whatever My President tells me I will Believe
Whatever My President Thinks is surely Right
Whatever My President orders I will Do
Leave brain at door.
That isn't Patriotism--
This is Gestapo Robotic Fascism

Fact --Our Fuehrer Bush has not read the newspaper in years and will not watch the news.
Fact -- Cheney was paid 2 mil a year and 25 mil stock option from Halliburton
Fact-- Bush and Cheney do not care what the opinion of the American people is.
Fact==Cheney awards 8 billion no bid contract to Halliburton before the gulf war
Do we see a pattern here

Neo Con-artist Rats and King George will do whatever is Necessary to better profile their Administration in History-regardless of the consequences.

Sorry kids But every day the oil prices go higher we Americans are fuelling the insurgency-- The Iranians and Middle east Fanatics get richer and buy more bombs and bombers to attack Us.

Think about that the next time you fill your vehicle.

Big oil makes more money and the Administration they bought drives up prices with their fantasy war - Arabs Swimming in cash along with the Administrations defense and oil supporters.
Too bad we are fueling the insurgents by default.

Retired Maj. Gen. John Batiste told reporters in a conference call. "Our strategy in Iraq today is more of the same, a slow grind to nowhere which totally ignores the reality of Iraq and the lessons of history. Our president ignores sound military advice and surrounds himself with like-minded and compliant subordinates."

"The fact is, the president has never listened to the soldiers on the ground effectively," said retired NATO Supreme Allied Commander Wesley Clark, who ran for president in 2004. "This administration is not listening to the troops and is not supporting them."

We need to support the troops -- Defund the war.
Overide Bush's blunder.

Its time we pulled back to the borders of Iraq and left the role of policing the streets to the Iraquis.

Of course the Republican Neo Con - artists are warning Bush- They know they will be toast at the next election-- Soon they will scurry
like rats from Bush's Titanic.
Besides Haliburton, Cheney's Bankroll just left Iran where they have been illegally doing business for the last 10 years under false offshore shell corporations. It seems they have enough blood money for now.

Anyone who would have studied George W. Bush's reign as Governor of Texas would have immediately learned that he was, and is, a pathological liar with the morals of Satan. The warning signs were there, but the American People chose to ignore them and allowed him to usurp the Office of President of the United States. Now, we, our children, grandchildren, etc., will pay through the nose for this idiot's intentional actions, assuming this country can last that long.

In all actuality, troop strength is irrelevant. The early mistakes by SEC DEF Rumsfeld, Bremer, and the State Dept. have pretty much doomed the narrow chance that ever existed for Iraq. The likely result will be a tail-between-the-legs exit by the US, and a fractured Iraq breaking into 3 weak autonomous governments. Congress has taken on the difficult task of trying to extracting us from a civil conflict with multiple nations (not just Iran and Syria, but also Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Kuwait, and Jordon) injecting influence which contradicts with US objectives. That should have been taken into consideration from the start. Blame for the failures of this war should not be laid at the feet of anyone other than the Commander and Chief and those appointed to execute his decisions. Congressional attempts to force withdrawl are much more supportive of the troops and our national interests. The plan they provide does not result in immediate cut and run, but sets a timetable or benchmarks for the Iraqi government to achieve with a penalty for failing. This is far better than the open-ended commitment at which we throw troops and money. There's no incentive for the Iraqi government to acheive results. The incentive now is to sit back and squander US funds and the lives of soldiers and innocents.

Referencing Don's comments: Your post is a typical example of taking everything you hear on Fox News as gospel. You make it sound like Reagan was the ONLY President who wanted a line item veto to combat add ons to spending bills. The truth of the matter is EVERY President from President Reagan on has sought to have the line item veto as a means to control spending. That includes President Clinton. The only problem is under current laws it has been ruled unconstitutional. As for the impact of Reagan's tax cuts, the one thing people seem to forget is that the poverty rate went up during the eighties as well, as well as the income gap between middle and upper income Amrericans. Welfare roles were reduced during the Clinton administration as a result of the welfare to work programs that he signed into law (probably one of the last pieces of legislation that was truly bipartisan). Finally, I don't know if you have any military experience (I do), but what is it going to take for you to understand that our military is not designed to referee a civil war? The best way we can be effective is withdraw the troops from within Iraq's borders, maintain a strong presence in the region to contain any possible threats, and focus our efforts on maintaining our own security. This would involve stepping up our intelligence efforts against Al Quaida to cripple them financially as well as militarily. We are not going to be able to do that while mired in Iraq. By the way, during the Viet Nam war, people like you thought that if we withdrew, the consequences would be Communism spreading uncontrollably across the globe. Well that didn't happen. I am not advocating pulling out and doing nothing. What we need is a smart allocation of our resources. Leaving our soldiers in Iraq as potential targets is not the answer. If we were able to outlast a super power like the Soviet Union during the Cold War, I've got to believe that we can come up with a policy to contain Iraq while continuing to address the terrorist threat that exists elsewhere. So please, spare me your Fox News talking points. Frankly, I'm sick of hearing them.

Why don't we all get together as a nation and impeach this President?
He has done more damage to this country than all the U.S. Presidents together. He and Cheney ought to go!

The Bush mob says we can't just cut and run from Iraq. They say it would create a horrible disaster. They have been wrong at ever bend in the road but some how now they know what they are talking about. There won't be any peace in Iraq until we get out of the way and let them settle it. You can bet it will be a free for all but it's their country so lets let them die for it.

We are now 16 signatures away from ending the war. Republicans who support the war and the president find themselves in the same bubble he is in. It is up to them to start pressuring their senators to sign the bill that will overturn the veto. Please search your conscience and take a stand! People are dying and you can stop it now! Yesterday I was listening to Sean Hannity on the radio and my blood was boiling. This man has no brain. He keeps accusing democrats (or “liberals” as he likes to call them in a demeaning way) of not wanting to fund the war and of leaving our soldiers out cold without necessary equipment, etc. He says we should focus on our heroes. Well, that’s exactly the point: we want our people back and out of harm’s way! I wanted to ask him, who are we really fighting? The Shiites, the Sunnis, the Iraqi people in general (I guess not, since we are training their soldiers). Who are we fighting and why?? Has anybody stopped to think about this? If we are fighting the Sunnis, I have a question: WHY? Do we care about who was Muhammad’s successor over a thousand years ago? It is time to recognize the fact that this is a civil war and we have no place in it. Please, let’s start thinking rationally and intelligently for a change!

I can understand war protests by Peaceniks. And I can understand protests by non-religious who want no part in this Muslim-JudeoChristian conflict. Really, I do. I can also understand protests by Lefties who, by no fault of their own, were born into a Capitalistic society which they want to change. But here is my beef: why are all you democracy-loving Americans jumping ship, exactly when General Petreus says, and Iraqis concur, that we have a chance? Have you not seen the "Appeal for Courage", a petition signed by 2800 American soldiers for Congress to let them finish their mission? (As opposed to the "Appeal for Redress" which has only 1900 military signatures?") And where were all you armchair quarterbacks in 1998, when Clinton signed into law our foreign policy in Iraq? A policy which is being carried out by the letter (if not sloppily, but we're doing it.) If there is no hope in Iraq, I agree we should stop the policing and the training, but why are you ignoring the positive news from Iraq's foreign minister? And if you are not hearing the news, perhaps you need to ask yourself why.