16 Comments

• 1. GOP4ME  |  February 27th, 2008 at 10:55 pm

  Reid is an ass.

  There, I said it.

• 2. neocon  |  February 27th, 2008 at 11:22 pm

  The man will go down in history as the single most incompetent and ineffective leader of any political body, ever.

• 3. js  |  February 27th, 2008 at 11:24 pm

  They should just throw him in prison with his mafia buddies.

  We would all be better off than to have a corrupt politician who is affiliated with the MOB in jail instead of being top dog in the Senate.

• 4. Nietzsche-Is-Pietzsche  |  February 27th, 2008 at 11:28 pm

  2. neocon | February 27th, 2008 at 11:22 pm

  The man will go down in history as the single most incompetent and ineffective leader of any political body, ever.

  That’s a very horrible thing to say about the “Decider”.

• 5. Kahn  |  February 27th, 2008 at 11:31 pm

  You’re like what Nietzche, 14 ounces to the pound?

• 6. Freedom1  |  February 27th, 2008 at 11:38 pm

  I question Harry Reid’s patriotism.

• 7. JD  |  February 27th, 2008 at 11:58 pm

  It’s hard to imagine that a “war debate” would be unwanted.

• 8. Almiranta  |  February 28th, 2008 at 1:07 am

  It is so funny to see how BDS is still such an obsession that even a post about the incompetence of Harry Reid has to generate a stupid comment about the President.

  And about his acceptance of the immense responsibilty of his postion, acknowledged by his comment that he has to be the decider. Duh. Every boss of every company is the decider. In my company, I am the decider. It is obvious that only lower-level drones who have never been entrusted with any responsibiltiy at all can find something to snicker about when they think of that word.

  Adults in the real world knew exactly what the President was talking about.

  And we know how juvenile it is to try to find an excuse to smear the President in absolutely every topic that comes up. But then we consider the source.

  Harry Reid is a mystery to me. He seems to be incapable of shame. He pulls one ignorant stunt after another, like his pajama party, and never seems to realize what a complete fool he is proving himself to be. And he is completely clueless .

• 9. Magnum Serpentine  |  February 28th, 2008 at 5:01 am

  I have a simple solution. Bring the troops home, after all 81% of citizens want them home in 2 months.

• 10. plainjane  |  February 28th, 2008 at 8:06 am

  Here we go again; even to discuss bringing home our troops from the mission they accomplished five years ago brings out the traitor calls from those who believe it is our right to be permanently based in the middle of this civil war. As you mourn Buckley it is a good time for all war loving Neocons to go back over his Iraq war opinion pieces.

  “To win the White House he must convince a war-weary country that U.S. policy in Iraq is succeeding. If he can’t, “then I lose. I lose,” said McCain. Let the good surge stories rooooooll. We can expect at least one Iraqi feel good story a day from Corporate Media 1/20/09

• 11. Leo Pusateri  |  February 28th, 2008 at 8:15 am

  Yes, Magnum and plainjane– we better pull them out now before the time comes when Bush, Patraeus and our troops are proven right.

  I mean, we’re having all kinds of success now. We can’t have that. Better pull them out now. I don’t care if our troops die in vain. I don’t care if Iraq becomes a safe haven for terrorists, or if genocide takes place. I only care that we can score a political victory and that we can make Bush and other Republicans look bad.

  Are you guys actually able to sleep at night? Is it pretty hard looking in the mirror and calling yourselves Americans?

  It would be pretty damned difficult for me to do so if I thought that way.

  Pathetic doesn’t even begin to describe you “anti-war” types.

• 12. neocon  |  February 28th, 2008 at 9:05 am

  Leo,

  It’s important that Jane and Magnum tell the UN and the Iraqi government, both which have mandates that we stay, why they want to violate those mandates.

  But more importantly, I want to hear Jane and Magnum tell the Iraqi people that they have had enough time to get things in order, and in the Democrats efforts to improve international relations, it’s essential that we abandon all of them in their time of need.

• 13. plainjane  |  February 28th, 2008 at 11:39 am

  But more importantly, I want to hear Jane and Magnum tell the Iraqi people that they have had enough time to get things in order, 12. neocon | February 28th, 2008 at 9:05 am

  Too easy.
  Iraqi people you have had more than ample time to achieve even the most basic of benchmarks set by President Bush. Our fighting force is needed elsewhere. Our military can no longer be your American taxpayer paid traffic cops, police investigators, pot hole fillers and sewage plant operators. Our military took out Saddam and his sons. You are floating on enought oil to pay all your bills. We will leave a small force to root out the Al Qaeda who followed us here, but now we must take the fight to Bin Laden in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

  Neocon, how’s that?

• 14. Magnum Serpentine  |  February 28th, 2008 at 1:34 pm

  Neocon,

  What about all those Citizens (81% according to Gallop) who want them home by April 2008 and 60% of the Citizens who say the war is a big fat mistake?

  Oh I see, only people associated with the neocons and the fundamentalist reconstructionist count. The rest of the citizens don’t matter.

  Is that how it is?

• 15. Kahn  |  February 28th, 2008 at 2:17 pm

  Mag. first… put down the bong.

  Yes, polls show people want out. Polls show they think it was a big mistake.

  Some polls say they WANT out, but not if it means bloody civil or a large regional war. But you actually have to ask that question to get an answer. Not all polls do.

  People are free to vote as they wish.

  But - if the dem leaders actually believe this, then why not scream it from the hilltops. They can vote to cut off funds - this week. The House can, and could have just not passed a funding bill at all - impossible to veto or filibuster a bill that doesn’t exist.

  And Obama is saying he’d start withdrawing immediately and has given no examples of a situation that would change that (civil war and regional war included). So? We get it. You want out. You don’t care about any stinkin’ consequences, you just want out.

  We get it. Run on it.The people will decide in November. That is, you know the ONLY poll that matters.

• 16. Darva Conger  |  February 28th, 2008 at 2:23 pm

  Leo:

  The “all kinds of success now” is because Muqtada al-Sadr’s six-month ceasefire — which will inconveniently end right before the U.S. election in November.

  With the Sunnis, we are arming and bribing Sunnis to kill al-Qaeda in Iraq forces, not us or the Shiites. Hence, we’re arming both sides in the civil war. Iraqis have passed just four of the 18 benchmarks put forth by the Bush administration. But then a law calling for provincial elections this October was vetoed by the Presidency Council.

  Keeping more American soldiers in harm’s way and arming willing factions in a civil war are not going to bring about political reconciliation in Iraq.