[WillMalven]

Don't need no stinkin' moderates.

[jwh_Denver]

Vietnam was lost when America’s politicians and the American people lost the will to fight and win the war.

BS! The Americans lost the will to fight because Johnson would not let the US do what it had to do to win.

[llevrok]

Iraq/ Afghanistan will become another "Vietnam" IF politicians start running this war as they did in Vietnam.

I am some what sympathetic to the Vietnam comparisons only in that I feel GWB is not prosecuting the war as massively as needs to be done to wipe the enemy off the face of the earth (LBJ's bomb them back into the stone age logic).

Retreat is not in that option.

[sgtbono2002]

Every time Hagel and other buttwipes come out with this crap they are encouraging the terrorists to more acts of terror. Are they so stupid that they dont realise this?

We have all seen the war . Anyone with a brain in their head knows the terrorists could kill more Americans each day than they do now. You would have to be stupid not to recognise the fact that its a plan to kill two or three Americans every day so that a-holes like Cindy Sheehan and Hagel can moan that we need to get out of Iraq.

We do need to get out thats for sure, but after the job is done. Until then Hagel needs to STFU.

[newgeezer]

Newt Gingrich who, if he can get beyond his own personal shortcomings

...(which is much like saying, 'if pigs can fly')...

Patake

Pataki.

[TexasCajun]

Just as McCain turned his back on the Conservatives in the Republican Party by his continual efforts to curry favor with the Left, even going so far as to play footsies with the Kerry Campaign over the possibility of running as VP on the Democrat ticket, Hagel has now abandoned his base constituency. I can tell you right now, both Hagel and McCain are finished as potential Republican Presidential candidates.

That sums it up for me.

[Revolting cat!]

You mean McCain is not running for president and Hagel is joining him on the ticket as a VP non-candidate?

[Dilbert56]

I think the term we're seeking is "Publicity Whore".

[Radix]

President Bush will be seen as great just because of everything that he is.

Compare him to the shrill empty suits on the Democrat Party. Just compare the deportment of the last two Democrats who ran against him. They were both jokes, as are most Dems.

McCain has as his base in the crossovers in the Democrat Party. He could never win the Republican nomination but he'll do very well in Massachusetts and similar states among Democrats if indeed that matters.

[McGavin999]

Runaway Hagel doesn't stand a chance. He turns the stomachs of even the most middle of the road American. I can't believe he keeps being re-elected.

[mercy]

Hagel/Arnold

For President and Vice President of the Quisling Society in Hell.

[MinuteGal]

I hope you will fax your most excellent composition to Senator Allen who's the only potential candidate I care about so far.

Leni