You may disagree with the war in Iraq but was this really necessary?

This only goes to show how pathetic you really are.

Are you sure that Bush carried out that attack? I would think he would be at home having a Thanksgiving dinner.

Wow, you've stooped to needing holidays to reiterate the same things you've said over and over. New material. You need new material. Dem days are going to be the suck for the old col, huh?

The new material is150 Dead and 250 injured on a single day in Iraq. This would not have happened if Bush had not invaded Iraq!

The new material is150 Dead and 250 injured on a single day in Iraq. This would not have happened if Bush had not invaded Iraq!

hmmmmmm.....and how many died on a single day in New York? Gee. It sucks. BUT Bitching about it won't change anything AND we wouldn't be in this position if our government had taken a hard line stance against terrorists years ago. But you dont' seem to be blaming the dems (Slick Willy) for not dealing with the issues.

150 dead and 250 injured. Am I supposed to be more angry because today terrorists were more active? Am I supposed to throw my hands up and run away because life is scary? How is this number the defining factor in politics? How does this become a magic number that suddenly proves Bush is such a horible person...I seem to remember a lot of people who pushed for this....and a lot of people who chose to support it only to get votes and then flip flop. If I wanted to get pissy than I'd have it in for them...

let's don't forget he pardoned a couple of turkeys yesterday. that's gotta count for something, right?   

People have freedom that never had it before. I know you resent freedom for anyone but your pathetic self, so that doesn't matter to you in the least.

ParaTed2K

Freedom to be killed if they step out of their home. This war is lost. After the carnage I reported in this Blog there was a second day of the same. Now the radical Cleric al-Sader warned the Iraq Prime Minister that if he meets with Bush next Week in Jordan as planned al-Sader will pull out of the so called "Unity Government of Iraq". Now al-Maliki has to choose between Bush and the most powerful cleric in Iraq. Every day the government Bush enabled to be elected by the Iraqi People mores closer to Iran and the situation on the ground gets worse. Every person that defends this war shows their complete disregard for what is taking place in Iraq. This war is lost and it is time to bring our troops HOME! They were given an impossible job by their Commander-in-Chief and were NOT provided the level of resources to complete the job successfully. This war and the choices Bush has made will be the subject of much study in the future and will show the almost complete incompetence of Bush and his subordinates in both the decision to invade Iraq and the way this war was conducted!

I have things I would like to say to you, Col, but they are not nice.

Instead, I will just say this: It is people like you, saying things like that, that causes this country to be a failure in the world.

That was as nice as I could put it....

MythicalMino

You are WRONG. I am telling it like it is. I did not create the Iraq War that was Bush. The reality is we are NOT winning and it is NOT because our Military did not try. They were sent on an impossible mission with inadequate force levels. Both those choices were those of GWB and it is he who is responsible for this failure not people acknowledging the reality of what is taking place in Iraq. If we ALL acted like Bush ( and you) and refused to see what is going on in Iraq it would not change one thing. Not one less American would have died or been injured nor one less Iraqi killed. You are an example of an attempt to shift the blame from Bush where it belongs to others-- In this case "People like me". DREAM ON!

Freedom to be killed if they step out of their home

More people are killed by US hospitals than in Iraq! Face it Gene, you are wrong once again. Your hatred for Bush has made you blind, and just plain stupid. You BETRAY every troop there! You Betray everyone who has ever fought for freedom! You are pathetic scum.

ParaTed2K

You are in denial. Deaths in hospitals due to injuries and illness have nothing in common with the way the Iraqi people are being killed every day. You are also comparing a country on 300 Million with a country of 26 million. People like you and others on this Blog site that refuse to see the situation in Iraq for what it is are the people
RESPONSIBLE for this war. You are JUST like Bush and Cheney. I am sure there are many people in Iraq dying in hospitals in addition to those that are being killed in the civil war that is taking place. It will be very interesting to see how al-Maliki chooses between meeting with Bush or doing what al-Sader has demanded!

All I see Gene is someone who accomplished a great deal while he was serving his country. Someone who made a life of service and (as far as I know) honor. I have been reading your rants (off and on) for almost two years now. I don't know you outside of your writings, but from what I've read you are now a person who wouldn't know fact or honor if it spit in your face.

Are there problems in Iraq, of course. Are people dying, yes. Have mistakes been made that cost lives, absolutely. However, you make it sound like nothing has been accomplished either. You insult every man and woman who serves there, helping to rebuild hospitals, schools and infrastructure that Hussein denied his people for so long.

So, yes, you are pathetic scum. You have traded anything you have achieved to crawl on your belly as a snake in the mud. You wear your rank to perpetuate the absolute lie that we are losing in Iraq. A lie that is laid bare by the fact that the troops fighting in Iraq are re-enlisting at record levels. The units that rotate back to the states aren't seeing massive drops in re-enlistments.

If it was as bad as you (and the worthless press) make it out, very few troops would put themselves in the position to have to go back.

So take your filthy anti American love for the terrorists and burn with it!!!

You are WRONG. I am telling it like it is. I did not create the Iraq War that was Bush. The reality is we are NOT winning and it is NOT because our Military did not try. They were sent on an impossible mission with inadequate force levels. Both those choices were those of GWB and it is he who is responsible for this failure not people acknowledging the reality of what is taking place in Iraq. If we ALL acted like Bush ( and you) and refused to see what is going on in Iraq it would not change one thing. Not one less American would have died or been injured nor one less Iraqi killed. You are an example of an attempt to shift the blame from Bush where it belongs to others-- In this case "People like me". DREAM ON!

I'm sorry but I just gotta say it. Klink YOU are dead wrong and you know it! On top of being both a moron and an idiot. "Everyone" here on JU has tried nicely to show you the other side of the coin. And prove to you there is another side to all of this. But you either ignore us or tell "we're" the stupid ones. Just about to a man people on this site are tired of both your whining and complaining, and that's the left, the right AND the middle. So either find something else to complain about, or shut up and move on.

First - There was no reason for this country to be in Iraq much less trying to do Nation Building. That is NOT the not the function of our military. Bush lied about the danger to our country as a pretext to invading a Moslem country with what they consider a Christian Army. Bush was warned by Powell as well as others that that would most likely result in the U S becoming stuck in a quagmire. He did not listen.

In a like manor he did not listen when his most senior military leaders told him to secure Iraq would take about 500,000 troops. He has changed the rational for invading Iraq at least three times and not ONE of the reasons Bush gave us has proven true. Every day Iraq moves closer and closer to all out civil war and the government we help installed is moving closer to Iran who Bush tells us is another danger. Any person who can support the actions of Bush in Iraq is a TRATOR and is supportive of a WAR that has not made America safer at a cost of over 2,800 America lives, over 20,000 injuries and so far 1/2 Trillion tax dollars. Anyone that supports that does not deserve to be called an American!