"so-called war on terror."

So-called war on terror? Are you kidding me? You think terror doesn't exist? 9-11 never happened in your universe?

Thompson didn't say "so-called war on terror". The Reporter did. Thompson said Global War.

Anything Thompson says right now is going to be fodder for the others, I'm still voting Fred..........

Anyone who doesn't understand the following statement is simply not paying attention.

"Bin Laden and people like him are heading up and we need to catch him and we surely need to deal with him, but if he disappeared tomorrow we still have this problem. If Iraq disappeared tomorrow, we'd still have this problem," Thompson said.

Thompson was exactly right. Get ride of bin Laden and Jihad will still exist. McCain attempting to suggest otherwise is simply more evidence of his dishonesty.

So Thompson says Osama is mostly a symbol. McCain criticizes him for it and then says that Osama is... a recruiting and propaganda symbol.

Genius there Senator McCain.

Why does OBL sound so much like a drunk James Dobson?

Well, not only is Bin Laden not a symbolic something, he's the one that planned and carried out 9/11. when are the neo-cons ever going to figure this out anyway?

Fred Thompson is the ideal candidate for these times. No one else has a better grasp of the issues that challenge our nation now, in the year of our Lord, 1968!

Mountain meet mole hill.

Which script will Thompson read from next?If some think he is a 'candidate for the times', heaven help us. So far, he hasn't said anything about how he would do anything. Get real

What's funny about Old Uncle Freddie's remark is that some liberals have said the same thing and they got roasted by the wingnuts.

People will jump at anything fred will say.I'am voting for Fred, because I think he is the man for 08.

Hereøs the bone of contention bt McCain and Thompson.
1.McCain campaign is in such a bad shape now that he wants to contradict anyone exp Thompson to get traction.
2.Thompson's (a friend of McCain) entry into the race spell doom for McCain so he must go an extra mile to stop him

3.This war and the surge are to a large extend McCains handwork so any blurring of its raison d'être is seen by McCain as an affront on him which much be opposes vehemently

4.Recall the recent debate.McCain apparently scolded at Mit Roomney for saying "the surge is apparently" by saying it is working not apparently working.

I think McCain's proclamation that "I will get him" is even more glaring than Thompson's remark. How does Senator McCain propose to do this? Do tell John.

Fred Thompson! What a joke. Give me a break. He, like all Republicans, is a backward looking dinosaur looking to don the tired-old=dead-horse mantle of Ronald Reagan, as if Reagan were some great man. Reagan was nothing more than a typical Herbert-Hoover-stomp-the-poor-political hack and doesn't deserve the veneration lavished on his memory. And Fred Thompson, John McCain and all the other losers are Bushnicks with NO new ideas and an agenda that has already brought America just about to its knees in SO many ways. What a JOKE, Fred Thompson, GIVE me a break!!

osama, an object. for use in political nature, wielded by the bush government.

end the lies.

So far there was not 1 person running for President that I would have voted for. They ALL say what they will do but when it comes down to it...it never happens. Thompson's right about Bin Laden & Iraq....we have a lot of enemies and if they did fall off the face of the earth, there is someone & another country to take their place. To think otherwise is ignorant and arrogant.
I'm voting for Fred!

When you Republicans get it wrong you just keep on with the Group Think and never listen to anyone who would disagree with you.

Osama Bin Laden, per the briefing you received from President William Clinton was the most important adversary to watch. When will you stop and smell the coffee? He has avoided capture for six years now. My question is, "How long are you going to keep him on the payroll?"

Bush was a dunsel President when along came his savior Osama Bin Laden. The first inaugural address was a direct taunt to the Middle East to start to draw us into a war. Continued talks and mediation between the major Middle Eastern factions was a necessity to promote safety measures here on our own shores. While Bin Laden's crew did do some damage in New York during Clinton's 8 years in the forefront, Bush did more to incite the ire of the Middle East by stating it was not important to the USA what happened on the MIddle Eastern homelands. LOOK what that attitude did September 11, 2001. It gave Bush something to do. Poor baby was so ineffective to that point that he had to start his own war to become important. He was not satisfied with subterfuge to steal the Presidency from the rightful winner; he had to hide the evidence by having the evidence, stored next to the twin towers, destroyed. If it was not Bush directly, we cannot state he was unaware of the necessity to remove the evidence that proved that we did not elect him. History will show, evidence will surface, that will clarify once and for all how connected to the Twin Tower disaster the Bush family really is. The Bin Ladens are good friends with the Bush clan.

"Bin Laden and people like him are heading up and we need to catch him and we surely need to deal with him, but if he disappeared tomorrow we still have this problem. If Iraq disappeared tomorrow, we'd still have this problem," Thompson said.

I don't get it. If bin Laden disappeared tomorrow, we'd still have the same problem. So why do we need to catch him and deal with him. What does "heading up" mean? And how could we still have this problem if Iraq disappeared tomorrow? What problem?

Fred doesn't have the big picture yet.