Well all it would be is lies on how the surge is working and that the Iraq govt officials are making progress on running their own country,same old lies americans have been hearing for the last 5 years.The republicans are masters at it.

McCain is clear that he wants to stay in Iraq long term.

Obama is unclear on what he wants to do.

Clinton is clear. She will start the shutdown within 60 days.
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Hillary's very clear 60 days has my vote!
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Why stop there, Neo Politicus?
Include Iraqis and coalition forces, and the count climes to somewhere between 500,000 and 1 mill.

When is your success criteria met?

westCoatsMessanger, Hillary the Bosnian General has voted for the war in Irak and said it was a mistake, then voted for Bush's bill to go to war against Iran, and said again it was a mistake, and then spoke about her 1996 Bosnian experience landing under sniper fire and said it was a mispoke. Do you think that her position to withdraw troops in 60 days is not a mispoken mistake? God bless America and God bless Obama. OBAMA08.

McCain says he supports the war not because he loves war, but because he hates war. This might sound like "straight talk" to some, but, to me, what he is really saying is like doing this very evil and heinous act exactly because one finds it evil and heinous. Now, if this is not masochism, I just wonder what is. It's not necessarily a bad thing--only sadistic. Somebody needs a shrink.

Clinton has more military support from decision makers than McCain. Clinton has always provided measured responses. Obama is a parrot who is unqualified to render an opinion much less a plan that is viable - he continues to flip flop because he has no clue. Clinton has my complete support and confidence to end the Iraq occupation responsibly.

Neo Politicus wrote:

The only valid assessment is the bodycount. 4,000 soldiers have been murdered by terrorists supported by the Liberals and the News Media.

Frankly, I have to wonder if New Politicus' parents had any children who lived because he/she/it cannot be living on the same planet that I am. Yeah, 4,000+ soldiers have been killed and thousands more wounded fighting the "terrorists" in Iraq WHO WERE NOT THERE BEFORE WE INVADED!!!

Saddam did have extensive ties to terror groups--funding, arming, training, sheltering.

A Pentagon review of about 600,000 documents captured in the Iraq war attests to Saddam Hussein's willingness to use terrorism to target Americans and work closely with jihadist organizations throughout the Middle East. The report, titled "Saddam and Terrorism: Emerging Insights from Captured Iraqi Documents," finds that:

• The Iraqi Intelligence Service in a 1993 memo to Saddam agreed on a plan to train commandos from Egyptian Islamic Jihad, the group that assassinated Anwar Sadat and was founded by Al Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

• In the same year, Saddam ordered his intelligence service to "form a group to start hunting Americans present on Arab soil; especially Somalia." At the time, Al Qaeda was working with warlords against American forces there.

• Saddam's intelligence services maintained extensive support networks for a wide range of Palestinian Arab terrorist organizations, including but not limited to Hamas. Among the other Palestinian groups Saddam supported at the time was Force 17, the private army loyal to Yasser Arafat.

• Beginning in 1999, Iraq's intelligence service began providing "financial and moral support" for a small radical Islamist Kurdish sect the report does not name. A Kurdish Islamist group called Ansar al Islam in 2002 would try to assassinate the regional prime minister in the eastern Kurdish region, Barham Salih.

• In 2001, Saddam's intelligence service drafted a manual titled "Lessons in Secret Organization and Jihad Work—How to Organize and Overthrow the Saudi Royal Family." In the same year, his intelligence service submitted names of 10 volunteer "martyrs" for operations inside the Kingdom.

• In 2000, Iraq sent a suicide bomber through Northern Iraq who intended to travel to London to assassinate Ahmad Chalabi, at the time an Iraqi opposition leader who would later go on to be an Iraqi deputy prime minister. The mission was aborted after the bomber could not obtain a visa to enter the United Kingdom.

Congress questioned Big Oil about big prices at the pump too.

Congress questioned Big Oil about big prices at the pump too and we all can see how much good that did.

Well, Tommyreb, you certainly bring up a lot of unsubstantiated claims made by an administration well known for claims that turn out to be LIES - which is how they got the US into these wars.

I hope that you will exercize the same thoroughness in examining and reporting on the lies, torture and criminal actions of Bush, Cheney, FBI, CIA and their "black sites" - and especially the actions of one of the world's greatest terrorist states - ISRAEL - who massively funds terrorist operations against the Palestinians, Iraq, Iran- mostly with US money and backing - and have been repeatedly cited and condemned by the UN for their terrorist activities. Israel also has been caught in espionage against the US - an inconvenient fact.

I really wish that the right-wing extremists would stop making excuses for the Bush/Cheney criminals and their thugs - and look at the degradation they have brought on the US at home and abroad - and how every one of their actions have wound up benefitting the wealthy and hurting the rest of US, but rattling off another of Rove's Talking Points is certainly easier that looking at the horrible results of your support for these criminals

Good post Carl. They won't respond. The only criticism of you will see on ABC will come from the left and from a Dem point of view. They know Saddam was linked to al Qaeda and they did a big special on it in 98 but bringing it up again might risk a Dem winning the White House so that stuff has to be kept hush hush and ignored until then.