Reid All About It

Jake, it’s a good question, but one that should have been asked six years ago. We may have broken it, therefore bought it, but at what price to the average American.? The monetary cost of this occupation is not sustainable, and in the mean while, we can barely keep track of issues within our own house. We’ve abandoned countries before – Vietnam comes to mind, and although things were rough there for a while, things eventually smoothed out, and now we can go on vacation there. We’ve caused enough death and chaos there, and we’ll be paying the bill for a long time to come.

I’d answer the questions you pose in your third paragraph this way: “It was more of the same dodge-the-question routine that we’ve seen so often from our elected officials.” “No, not in the slightest.” “Most certainly.” I saw your piece on WN ysterday evening and was appalled at the treatment you received from Sen. Reid, especially his comment that he wasn’t in a debate. I only wish that I were a resident of Nevada so I could have the extreme pleasure of voting against him in the next election!

Jake – Keep up the honest Journalism – There are so few of you left. Ask both sides the question.
See Reid knows the answer but it goes against him politically. It more important for him to attack our troops.

I still say the more accurate and pointed question is: Are the Iraqi people more safe with American troops in their country? Evidence indicates they are not and are dying by the scores daily.

I hate to say this but the situation in Iraq is alot like Viet Nam. We heard the same predictions, that if we were to leave Viet Nam millions would die. We left. Millions died. America turned a blind eye to the carnage that followed. And, like the Japanese after WWII, America still fails to acknowledge its culpability in the death of these people.
Why should this be any different. Why should the deaths of countless Iraqis concern a godless liberal America.

I think it is absolutely deplorable that men like him have held countless oversight hearings now issuing subpoenas like parking tickets demanding answers and yet when the interrogation lights are turned on his face on record…oh no…not unless we have the questions ahead of time and only if it politically doesn’t hurt him by answering…Snakes in the grass…money and power that is all our elected officials on both sides of the isle represent in this day and age.

Jake, you were not even close to being out of line.
Mr. Reid did duck your question, and thereby answered it.
The Iraqi society suffered under Saddam for decades, and under UN sanctions for about a decade. This severely warped and damaged their societal structures, hence, they need more recovery time, more time with the “training wheels”.

Sentaor Reid didn’t duck your question; you just didn’t like his answer. Are we there to fight terror or make the Iragis feel better?
And why are you all-of-a-sudden chosing to go so hard after Majority Leader Reid but not the man in charge of this long failed war, President Bush?
I never thought you were a hack, until now.
Misplaced aggression = bad “journalism”.
Thanks for poisoning the discourse.

Good Job. This is the kind of honest questioning of politicians I have been waiting to hear.
I first heard your exchange with Senator Reid on Dennis Prager’s radio show and then heard your interview with Hugh Hewitt. I will definitely be following your work in the future.
Keep up the good work.

Your question had three possible answers: “Yes,” “no,” or “I don’t know.” Sen. Reid chose to talk instead about Iraqi public opinion. His response might have been a reason for answering “yes,” but his testiness when you repeated the question tells me that he truly didn’t want to say “Yes, Iraqis will be safer without US troops in Iraq.”

The question has been answered a million times before: We are already in a Blood Bath!
Adam

James Marsden – unfortunately the Republicans had to be cleaned out because they were acting like libs, 2008 will be the rejuvenating of the Republicans to their core values

Well done Jake! It was a very fair question, one that should be debated and intelligently discussed. No politician should support withdrawal without answering that question publicly. This is a tough, tough, situation, one that has been rife with bad or at least unsuccessful decisions. If we go forward without an intelligent debate about the consequences of our actions, then it will seem to the American public as thought the politicians are moving forward in a cynical attempt to keep themselves in power, not to do what it right. Keep pushing on getting answers Jake!

The problem with your question is that it fishing for a “soundbite” answer that can fit in the twenty-two minutes of a “World News” broadcast. I don’t think the question can be simply answered. The administration certainly didn’t get the results from their “soundbite” pronouncements when they got us into this mess, nor did the mainstream media ask the tough questions then, instead preferring to parrot such pap as “we’ll be greeted as liberators” and “the war will pay for itself.”