[Mo1]

FYI Ping

heres a link

http://www.c-span.org/watch/index.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS3&ShowVidDays=30&ShowVidDesc=&ArchiveDays=30

[Jrabbit]

gack....it's Levin. Iraq is a failure.....yada, yada, yada

[Txsleuth]

I will repeat what I said on the Senate thread.

Warner's opening remarks made it sound like he has zero respect for Pres. Bush...but just thinks the DEMS on the panel are just peachy.

He also said that he "hopes" that Pres. Bush will NOT make a decision re: Iraq until after he has met with the NEXT Committee heads for the next Congress....and that he wants the decision to be a bi-partisan and WITH the Congress decision...

IOW, I my opinion, Warner pretty much has taken the title CIC away from Pres. Bush...and is trying to reenact the hearings before we pulled out of Vietnam...


FYI...if anyone has NPR, they are playing the hearing on the radio also.

[rightinthemiddle]

"How are you going to get us our of Iraq?"

"How long before we get out of Iraq?"

"Do you understand the recent elections are mandate for the U.S. to get out of Iraq?"

"Will you work to convince the president we need to get out of Iraq?"

"According to the media, all Americans want us to leave Iraq. Do you concur?"

[Enosh]

Has anyone said "quagmire" yet?

[Txsleuth]

PING

[popdonnelly]

Can't wait to hear from the usual suspects. Paging Claude Rains.

[Agent Smith]

McCain is a blabbermouth and should shut up and let Gates answer the darn questions.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. - H. L. Mencken

[E]lections amount to no more than choosing between the scum that floats to the top of the barrel and the dregs that settle to the bottom. - L. Neil Smith

Giving power and money to Congress is like giving liquor and car keys to teenage boys. - P.J. O'Rourke

Compromise is: getting rid of your principles a little bit at a time. - Patrick Lear

[Wolfstar]

I think all the has-beens from Bush 41's administration are busy trying to take over the last couple of years of Bush 43's administration. I think they are busy trying to rewrite the history of their failure to take out Saddam in the first Gulf War. Gates' comments this morning make me want to puke.

[bnelson44]

Been reading a bit of what Gates is telling the committee. I think I like this guy.

[TomGuy]

[4woodenboats]

Hey Mo1, look at these two different versions by the same Robert Burns, six hours apart. One qouted Gates as saying we're not winning the war, in the other, he says we're not winning but we're not losing, either

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061205/D8LQP8H00.html

http://www.thenewstribune.com/24hour/front/story/3438941p-12612271c.html