[StarCMC]

there is the steady rhetoric of Rep. John Murtha, Pennsylvania Democrat, and the New York Times along with the absolute deafening silence of Republican members of Congress.

This sentence is the one that makes me sickest. Blech!!

[freema]

That's not the sentence that makes me the sickest-this one is:

The lives of eight young men are at stake.

The only thing the author failed to mention was that these lives were at stake in Iraq, and now in America.