[meandog]

I thought this guy was another liberal kook until I read his biography: click here ... I have to agree with the common sense the man makes!

[kinoxi]

When he went braying into Iraq
WTF?

[P-40]

This makes perfect sense if you have no flipping idea how human beings work.

He just summed up at least 90% of the politicians in Washington...

[Steel Wolf]

Ouch. Harsh, but fair.

[mosquewatch.com]

It is ok and healthy to disagree with some policies of President Bush.

Calling him a "depressing, witless ferret" leads me to believe he has a hidden agenda.

[Lancey Howard]

He has no faint idea of how people work. The man is an idiot.

FRED REED, who attended King George High School, is an expatriate living in Mexico.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

this is going to be a greeeaaat thread, with lots of braying here, too, LOL.

[metesky]

This article is horseshit from a horse's ass.

[italianquaker]

This must be maureen dowd day

[gcruse]

You read this piece, thought it was liberal kookery, read Fred's bio, decided the piece was common sense. Is that what you're saying?

[dirtboy]

When he went braying into Iraq, he thought people would roll over, throw flowers, and have a democratic revolution. This would start a domino effect that would make all the other Muslim countries want to be democracies, too.

Hmmm - since Iraq, Libya had renounced WMDs and Lebanon has moved towards democracy and splitting from Syrian influence. Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have begun baby steps towards a more democratic society.

I guess facts are just too much of a bother when you are in full Bush-bash mode. And it's telling you would swallow it all up, meandog, and ask for seconds.

[Oldsailor]

If you see this as "common sense" then we now know much more about who you are.....and it ain't real purty!!!

[Darkwolf377]

If things don't start looking up pretty soon internationally, I'm going to be pretty sure which.

Yes, because the US president controls everything that happens in the world.

[jwalsh07]

Of course, if you have read any history, which Bush hasn't, you will have noticed that people do not like being occupied by force. They don't like having their cities bombed. It galls them. It can, under certain circumstances (such as any circumstances) make them hostile.

I've read some history, especially WW2 history because my father and ten of my Uncles participated. We firebombed the crap out of Germany. We dropped nukes on Japan. I imagine that galled the Germans and the Japanese but the evidence is in there, killing them in great numbers and occupying their countries resulted in two stable democracies with one being a pretty good ally of those who did the killing and galling.

Now what?

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

"And you probably listen to ooom-pa music."
Uh oh! I listened to Big Joe last night!

[yoe]

Iraq is in the hands of the various and fractious War Lords - each little village is governed by such. President Bush and the Coalition should have outlawed the Ba'ath Party...they are trying like mad to get back into power...sort of like a Clinton thing............

[Darkwolf377]

This would start a domino effect that would make all the other Muslim countries want to be democracies, too. They would climb over each other to be democracies. They would love us because democracies love each other. He just knew it. This makes perfect sense if you have no flipping idea how human beings work.

Yes, because after WW2, Germany just POP! became a perfect Democracy.

Bush never said it would be easy--this guy is creating a paper tiger to demolish. What Bush is doing is holding the line--if this guy heard Bush say this would all be over in a couple of weeks, I wish he'd cite when Bush said so.

I seem to recall the President saying this would be a long, difficult road. This guy apparently needs to get his radio/TV repaired. When the "conservatives" start to whine that "I want it over NOW! I'm TIRED of this!" we are in trouble.

[I see my hands]

My, but aren't you bashers special.

[Lancey Howard]

Har! I was just posting a comment which lifted inane quotes from this scumbag's article but it got overwhelming. The question is, why would you post the juvenile masturbations of a bitter old leftist who apparently nowadays can only write for.... whatever this Fredricksburg "free-lance" thing is?

[CodeToad]

Saying we should never have went into Iraq because the people don't like force is just silly because Saddam was a force that killed thousands of their people and the people didn't lift a finger against him.

[navyblue]

Why are you living in Mexico Fred? Maybe because you don't like your own country? What is you nationality?