Fat tim is going to have a field day
9. Macia #101 Oops, I made a mistake - it wasn't the ISG answer that was jarring, it was Brownback's response to the issue of Iran becoming a nuclear power. http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/Transcript_Page.aspx?ContentGuid=26e889d9-3de9-46f6-a504-a17a0d8fc0cf ###### HH: And how do you understand the enemy we face in the war? SB: Well, I think it’s very clear that we face an enemy, and I think we’ve done some of a disservice by using a verb, and not a noun in the war on terrorism. Who is it that we’re fighting? And we’re fighting Islamic-facists. I think we should be saying that. We should confront this group that wants two things. They want us out of the Middle East, and they want to establish an Islamic caliphate in the region where we pull out of. This is a very serious enemy that we’re confronting. HH: Can we allow Iran to go nuclear, to possess nuclear weapons? SB: Well, that’s a tough issue to decide, and discern just exactly where the Iranians are. Hugh, I don’t have a direct answer on that. I do know that I believe we have to strongly confront the Iranians, we have to confront them on a multiple set of issues, including human rights issues, which I don’t think we’ve done, the strength of which we need to on that. And we’ve got to get the Europeans and others engaged with us, to aggressively confront them, which is tough to get done. But you know, the way you phrased that question, it almost begs a military response, as is does it get to that level. And I can’t, in my own mind, commit to that at this point in time.
8. Unrepentant VN Vet #124. Posted by Unrepentant VN Vet to MNJohnnie On News/Activism 12/10/2006 9:01:45 AM CST · 124 of 598 ".....So I suspect the Junk Media is going to be painfully surprised to find out there idols the Democrats are going to ignore them on Iraq fully as much as GW Bush has." From brief observation of Montana's DNC-worshiping media, you may have hit on something. Any mention of the ISG that appears out here in the North American Outback has been shoved back so far from the front pages you need a telescope to find it, and the only articles that do involve Beltway politics are such an abject attempt to polish up our (now) two dim Senators' images as straight-shooters-totally-committed-to-representing-voters, it almost sounds like they're already into their re-election campaigns. Somebody's WAY worried about how the ISG is going to reflect on the dims, IMHO. Anybody want to get in a pool on the date and time that the DNC tells the media to finally bury this turkey and never, ever mention it again?
7. Dirtbiker. #173 Sen. Brokeback and Dudd think the commission report should be followed...4 years, great cost of lives and money, yada, yada, yada. 3,000 lives lost in 4 years. We lost 3,000 lives in 1 hour on September 11th. But they weren't in "harm's way", like our soldiers are.... (BTW DUDD, diplomacy IS a sign of weakness to muzzies!) Thank God these morons were NOT in power during WWII. We would all be speaking German and eating saurkraut by now...
6. Barset #272 It's hard to talk to state sponsored terror countries that lose respect for you when you want to talk instead of getting it on. We may learn that one day." This should be emblazoned on the cover of the ISG report after discarding its contents. That is all a resonable person needs to know about this. Also, can someone tell me where these old reptiles get off telling the sovereign state of Israel how to placate her enemies, and the sovereign state of Iraq, with its democratically elected government, how to submit to 7th century despotic Iran, Syria, and Baker's paymaster, Saudi Arabia. These "study" groups and our criminally stupid media setting out to prove once again, "Being an enemy of America is harmless (and fun) being America's friend is treacherous.
5.Benard #61 There is no way to explain why Iran should be consulted. These are the same people who complained that the US should have kept Saddam Hussein's army intact (sort of like having Himmler and Goering run the German defense force in 1946) after the fall of Iraq. If those pesky media types keep asking Mr. Hamilton to justify that report with his name on it, well, that's just not acceptable. I'm sure the media will receive a retraining memo from the DNC this week on the protocol for accepting the report verbatim. Just like computer programming mistakes - Garbage in, Gospel out.
4. Lavern #294 I noticed that they were very testy with Iraq's reaction. One thing that really bothered me though, and is indicative of the ego's behind these commissioners, is that Hamilton said, that if they don't work for their national unity, we will leave and we will leave soon. How dare he usurp the Presidential power of Foreign POlicy...what an arrogant jerk. Rather than discuss Iraqi's concerns about their report, they just trash the Iraqi leadership. Shameful stuff by both of them.