God bless the USA. God bless our Constution.

Why does the right wing hate the Constitution, our troops and dissent?

Who is being hateful? This is typical of the fringe left anti-Americans. Spewing hatred because your ideals are failures and you can't debate facts.

Is there some kind of blogosphere stupidity contest I haven't heard about? The comments supporting the war on this message board are the most ignorant things I've read in a long, long time.

it seems to me that many people bashing Obama are bashing him simply because he's being negative. Would you rather keep sending sons and daughters to die so rich people can keep getting richer, all the while hearing "Everything's OK" or would you rather hear the truth about the situation and start to fix it? Yes, Iraq is a haven for al Qaida. Why? Because we blew up enough of Iraq for some people to get angry and take al Qaida's side. Who attacked us on 9/11? Saudis, Egyptians, NOT IRAQIS. How many Iraqi citizens who have no ill will against us have died since the start of this war? Nobody knows, because our government stopped releasing those figures in March, 2005. They claimed the media was taking those numbers "out of context." How can you take a number, which is not subjective, out of context? Stop hiding behind your political parties and open your eyes.

All Senator Obama can do is bitch and gripe like the rest of the Democrats. Someone running for President should have some ideas to offer, not just gripes about the current administration. This is just another campaign speech for him rather than a hearing on the state of the war as it is for the country. The dim bulbs out there can continue to pray for President Obama....I'm still waiting to see Senator Obama.

For all you gutless, armchair Monday morning quarterback democrats ... "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." -Teddy Roosevelt, April 23, 1910 (speech in Paris, France).

Once again Barack shows that he is intelligent and his thought process is well above your normal politicians and baloney. What a coincidence eh ? after so many years since 9-11 and the start of the Iraqi war the most critical hearings at the most critical time just happen to start near the anniversary of 9-11. Its just a diversion, plain and simple. They are not related, have never been related, and we continue to lose credibility around the world. We should all be used to it by now from this administration. Nothing but political hijinx since the beginning.

Wow, the republicans posting here really are the fringe, and their irrational hatred is turning off a lot of voters. Keep up that looney tunes stuff, guys, it's great! Every time you accuse a democrat of treason for speaking his mind, you create another independent and democrat! Keep 'em coming!

Upset that the hearings are on 9-11? Excuse me, but doesn't the Democratic leadership set the agenda?

"I'd like to see Barak (sic) Hussein Obama use his full name everywhere to show he is as fearless as he pretends"

that is not why you'd like to see him use his full name, and you know it.

NATE --
Good points about catching a person lying, but -- those lies you refer to are over many generations and many years and by many, many people. If what you say is valid then NOTHING the government tells us is true. Hence, we're still at war in Europe, we never walked on the moon, airplanes don't break the speed of sound and Bush wasn't elected President twice.

I don't care what you think, just get out of my lane when you see my big suv riding your bumper. It is ironic that the brave men and women who have volunteered to fight in this war are doing so to protect even the most anti-American leftists right to free speech.

Obama may not believe we're kicking Al Qaeda's ass, but I would bet Osama does. He's lost hundreds of his best terrorists since the surge began and dozens of his leaders. It must break whatever he has in place of a heart to see the very Sunnis in Mesopatamia, the center of his new Caliphate, now turning on his boys and helping us to hunt them down.

Whatever the future holds, this is a major success.

We've had 27000 US casualties in the Iraq war, and this is shaping up to be the worst year yet. We've gained nothing, and really, we could gain nothing by this, because there were no damn WMD's to begin with. We started this war, which is an un-American thing to do.

"There are 1.3 billions muslims in the world. I doubt there is hardly 100 thousand extremists who has twisted a very soft, tolerant and peace loving religion for radical agenda." (Comment by "Arshad" above)

I will accept that Islam is a "peaceful" religion when Muslims turn on these extremists and put them down themselves. Until then, we infidels will have to continue to do the job for you. Also, what is peaceful about a religion that espouses death for any in it's ranks who choose to break away and follow a different path of belief? Or who riot violently in the streets because of a cartoon. Or kill a raped woman out of "honor"???

"volunteered to fight in this war are doing so to protect even the most anti-American leftists right to free speech. "

Only you would consider leftists saying we need to armor the troops and go after Osama as anti-american speech. But whatever, that little yellow ribbon on the back of your car allows you to do whatever you want to hurt the soldiers because it clearly states that you 'support our troops'.

Hey E. O,Neal... Your numbers are wrong, as if you care...

Try 3775 (approx)

Thanks for playing...

By the way, the reason there are so many frothing rightists on here spouting thier fox news bullet points is because this just got linked on drudgereport.com

Wondering why bin Ladin is still alive? Take his own advice and read Imperial Hubris, by an ex-CIA researcher.

Remember the out pouring of pain and remorse following the shootings at Virginia Tech, relate that to the first hand observations by a doctor working at Baghdad's morgue who sees 10 times that every day, found in The Assassins Gate by George Packer, who reported from Iraq for the New Youk Post.

Now consider In Dead Aim how "w" talks about 'refilling the 'ol coffers' which brings to mind the hord of Texas oil men continuing to get reep record breaking profits, as long as, the World's 2d largest oil reserve remains in complete chaos.

Go ahead read, as you'll soon understand that it's not just our fighting men & women stuck in Iraq fighting amid a civil war and a disappearing enemy like in Viet Nam, it's all about non-civil empirical ambitions and greed that have us all trapped paying the bill for something none of US actually want, understand or need. The equation is simply this: when there are too many sides and too many unanswered questions (eh! General) such as "why are we here in the first place?" it's best to just get out.

Thank you Mr. Obama, I think you understand that!