There is a big difference in re-deploying and planning for it. Reading your article, the Senator DID NOT call for redeployment..!

Most of the employees at ABC are such committed Democrats that they contribute cash to help get Dems elected. So it should not be a surprise that they hype every action and opionion that they can slant to hurt a Republican President. Note that they never mention that Bush's economy is arguably the best in our nation's history!

The economy is good? Good for whom? Maybe you perhaps. I spend have to food money for gasoline. My health insurance carrier through work has found a way to shirk paying for my prescriptions. I don't speak out at work about my political leanings for fear of getting fired for sharing my opinion. My son is turning 15 this fall, and I fear he will be drafted to fight Muslims in some far away place where he might die. In short, my family has been screwed by Darth Cheney, Emperor Bush and the greedy, lying Republicans.

Down with Republicans. Banish them!

From Pat:

"My son is turning 15 this fall, and I fear he will be drafted to fight Muslims in some far away place where he might die."

Well, Pat, would you rather have your son possible fight them in some faraway place or on your hometown streets? One or the other is what will happen.

I now love Lugar. I usually only blog on the weekends, but he made me hop on late last night because everyone needs to hear what he had to say. It's a pivitol point for the war. Lugar gets what everyone on the hill gets, they just won't say. Lugar standing up in the senate with his words may have helped save the country from complete disaster.

Lugar is a coward. I'd love to divide the country down the middle, and put the conservatives on one half, the liberals on the other, and allow each to have their way with policy...and then in a few weeks, move the conservatives over to the conquored liberal half when the jihadists decapitate the last weasely one of them! Screw a wall between us and Mexico, put a wall down the middle, so the cowardly and misguided liberals have to stay put and live the stupid ideas they espouse to solve very complicated problems.

Profiles in courage, and boy is it overdue. Thank-you Senator Lugar the policy in Iraq has been "not smart" since it began.

Of course the senator was calling for re-deployment. Plans are a part of it.
The bigger picture is he seems more politically motivated. He knows the repubs are set to lose everything.
Lugar is a power hungry is his entire motivation. He knows his party has to find a way to separate themselves from Bush before the election as well. I hope it does not work.

Lugar is a real piece of work. He rubber-stamps everything GW tosses to him for the past 7 years and now that it is down to the end of the term for the DISMAL LEADER who's popularity is right down there with Satan himself, Lugar, knownig he needs the vote, finds his JUEVOS and steps up to the plate... WOW... VERY COURAGEOUS there Senator... ya BIG PHONY!

it's good to see another Republican come out against Bush's disastrous foreign policy. This President, like no other, has taken the wrong fork in the road almost every time. Here's hoping we elect a thoughtful leader in 2008. Shoot from the gut and ask questions later has gotten us into a heap of trouble.

$en. Richard Lugar, like many other Republicans, is finally comming to his senses. Iraq-nam is a corp-rat $ponsered war, a war being waged for profiteering... at the expense of American blood and treasure (not to mention the blood and treasure of others).

George W. Bush is an amoral dry drunk $ociopath serving only the interests of the ruling elite and fascist corp-rat kulture. And Dick Cheney, the actual President, is the paragon of evil, the devil incarnate. Americans who support these two evil men are traitors. They are traitors to constitutional precepts and American democratic ideals.

The Republican party is trying to look to the future politically. They recognize that the Iraq War is a loser for them and will sabotage any attempts to regain the congress and/or win the White House in the future. Accordingly, they are attempting to cast Iraq as Bushes War and get it over by the time the next elections roll around. George Bush will probably spend the rest of his life trying to justify this war and rationalize away it's failure. What else will he have to point to as a legacy? He will be the Republican equivalent of Lyndon Johnson (but without the domestic successes of the Great Society).

The dribble that blathers forth from Lugars mouth leads this observer to believe that Lugar must be loaded. And any well informed IRA member would tell you that a loaded Lugar should be fired; not listened to.