[bkepley]

--"We're on the verge of chaos, and the current plan is not working," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said in an Associated Press interview. U.S. and Iraqi officials should be held accountable for the lack of progress, said Graham--

I'm agreeing with him right now, mad cow disease or not...but I've been through pessimistic periods before.

[SF Republican]

I'm agreeing with him right now,
I too agree, anyone that thinks things over there are under control need help. I feel I am loyal to the President to a fault, but things there are bad and people here need to admit it.

[brytlea]

Even if he is correct, it would seem to me to be far wiser to work behind the scenes than to say such things in public, so that our enemies believe that if they can just keep killing our guys we will eventually give up because we don't have the will to go on.
susie

[brushcop]

Let me remind everyone once again: Everyone, with the exception of a few cowards, signed on to this war, now FINISH THE JOB! Hell, you're not fighting this war anyway but some mighty brave men and women certainly are putting their lives on the line.

Is that so hard to grasp? I plan on making contact personally with some of these RINOs and from a combat infantryman Dad's point of view, tell them exactly what I think of them, face to face, no wiggle room, no dancing around the subject. It will give me great pleasure.

[rlmorel]

I know exactly what you mean. But, remember...

This is not an isolated slice of time in Iraq.

This is about two weeks to a major United States mid-term election. The terrorists in Iraq may be inhuman jerkoff a$$holes, but most are assuredly not dumb.

They KNOW their only chance is to turn the American public against the war and influence politics in this country.

Your negative emotions are what they want to elicit. They WANT the same effect on US elections they had in Spain and with the help of the Liberals and MSM in this country, there is a chance they well succeed.

We are at one point in a battle in a long war. We are going to have worse weeks at some point ahead. Keep a steady strain! As a country, we need to do that as well.

[Harrius Magnus]

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said in an Associated Press interview.

That's the first place I would go if I thought things were in a state of "chaos." That would be right after I gave Sadr troop strengths and locations.[/sarc off]
Please people, I also have had "moments," but how many reasons can we think of that this comment is the wrong time, wrong place, and to the wrong audience? Can you imagine the scrapbook the enemy is pasting together of quotes from "prominent politicians," to, god forbid, show a captured serviceman and to recruit new henchmen?