No.

Abizaid is a smart guy and I respect his a great deal, but even really smart people are wrong sometimes. This time he is wrong, dead wrong.

Abizaid should make clear that Iran can produce nuclear power like the US can and should be able to. Bushbaby just pretends it is for a weapon and no wonder he can't stomach UN inspectors. We can't stomach you and cheeny anymore either, bushbaby. I just had a grat talk with a diehard republican last night a vietnam vet that led me to believe the perfect storm of a decimating blow to the repubs is in their future around November 2008. GOOD!!!!

Why do Democrats all sound like failing high school students? Just a question from someone who isn't American.

BL@KBIRD:

Our schools no longer teach--they indoctrinate.

Who cares if you can't spell, punctuate, or express yourself coherently? As long as your opinions are double-plus-good orthodox, you're given a passing grade and sent out into the world to spew semiliterate invective about "cheeny," whoever that is.

Me are hate Bush!

Heh.

Abizaid is an Arab. He thinks like an Arab and his heart is Arab. I rest my case.

The semi-literate collapsing republican has right wing radio wacko talking points as the life preserver thrown to them by HUSH BIMBO, BILL OHREALLY, SHUN HANNITY, and the nervouse little twitch, mikey the savage weiner, vainly tries to save their drowning minions.

We can live with a nuclear Iran, but Israel can't. This is just Abizaid breaking with Wolfowitz. Nobody wants a nuclear Iran, except maybe France.

How about we let Israel take care of herself, then? I'm as big a supporter of Israel as anybody, but Israel's capable of defending against Iran or Syria. We all know that's a fact.

There's absolutely no reason for the US to start a war with Iran over this--but that's exactly where we're headed if the people in charge get their way. We need to get the hell out of that region and stop our "defense-at-any-cost" of the Middle East oil supply. We've got plenty of oil at home, and maybe it's time we try to cut back so we don't have to deal with these morons who are still stuck in the middle ages.

Wonderful....another vote to tolerate the Littlest Dictator, Ahmadinejad, who is actively denying the Holocaust and Planning the Next One, with Russian missles and Chinese oil money.

If Europe and Japan really want to avoid a war with Iran, then they should participate in STRONG sanctions against Iran. Sanctions can work and avoid a war, but not if our allies can't give up Iranian oil.

I have traveled 125,000 air miles thus far this year and usually over 200,000 annually.

My customers are home town folks that rely on character, values and truth.

While the media is select in its reporting, I find there is a huge silent majority in heartland America that most voted for a Democratic candidate in November. They feel they have been had. Why did the Democrats promise the disposition of issues they knew full well that they could not perform on and what did the Democrats expect when the goods didn’t appear as promised. See the word "promise" is what heartlend folks have problems with. It wasn’t we promise to do the best job within the framework we are given. It was we promise to bring troops home, to hold Bush and administration accountable, etc., etc.

While most on each coast have a bit more of a grasp on these issues, Ma and Pa Box Elder, South Dakota see this as being lied too and these are in areas where your word is your bond.

There are countless Box Elder's across this nation. All I have spoken with have never been polled with the exception of one couple in Georgia.

They see the world from their folk’s perspective and thier kids from thiers. As a Democrat, I know no one can conclude in any fashion who is on first until they and they alone get into that voting booth on Election Day and that is when the rocks get hard and the water gets wet.

I am finding that there is little wiggle room allowing Iran ownership of nuclear technology in any form, hence they are starting to think Bush knew what he was doing all along.

The momentum of this sentiment is snowballing. No one or organization has the pulse real of this demographic.

W. A.

"Iran is not a suicidal nation. Nuclear deterrence would work with Iran."
I give Abizaid 10 / 10 on his assessment of Iranian temperament. He missed to mention that, Americans are Suicidal nation, they push people to commit suicide. Hadn't it been the case, we didn't have to see collateral or remnants of Alqaida today.