Warner Calls on Bush to Withdraw Troops

Here is an indiot senator, you want to listen to. He keeps saying theses withdrawal statements, without follwoing with actions. He will probably would have the same fate as George Allen.

Good. Now which of the fat Bush Facist will listen to Elizabeth Taylor’s Ex.????

It’s good to hear that someone of great standing talked to Bush about withdrawing troops. Bush has been getting serious heat for this decision, and for Senator Warner respectfully asking him was a pleasant change. I am curious as to what Warner believes in global poverty as an issue the United States could get serious about?

Cut’n run, Cut’n run, Cut’n run!!!! I love it… the Republican rats can’t jump off of the sinking ship fast enough. This is priceless.

On one hand we have a Senator who has fought in WWII and Korea, and then we got a President who chose not to fight for his country in time of war…who has more credibility…there’s fighting smart and fighting dumb and I don’t believe we’re fighting smart…despite the propaganda, the surge hasn’t made Iraq any closer to being a self-sustaining democracy (if that is still the goal)…we need leaders who have the courage to separate rhetoric from reality…

President Bush need not stage appearances before applause crazed audiences/props of the VFW or American Legion to obtain wise and clear counsel regarding what course of action is required in Iraq. Mr. Bush simply has to heed the advise of Republican Senator Warner and for that matter, Democratic Senator Webb, both Virginia senators, former Secretaries of the Navy and combat Marine Corp veterans. For a desperate President Bush, concerned more for his legacy and passing the tragic missteps of the Iraq War on to his successor, to draw the wrong analogies from another debacle, Vietnam, and argue that American troops must remain in order to prevent blood baths is the wrong interpretation and unacceptable and portrays a Commander in Chief out of touch with the lessons of history.

This is JUST the COVER that was needed for the other sensible but wobbly, weak kneeded Republican Senators to start serving OUR country and begin to demand an end to the madness that IS the occupation of Iraq… The Democrats must be smiling today as this is from one of Bush’s OWN Party….hehehehehehe

Everything the left said about Bush turned out to be right. He’s the worst President in one hundred years. No more imposters as president. One in three Americans still think he’s doing good job. Consrvatives are Idiots!

You leave now there’ll be civil war, you leave a year from now there’ll be civil war, you leave years from now there’ll be civil war, It is a mess and no one knows what to do about it.

Bush, please! step down and take Cheney with you, for the good of the country.

Next up, expect to hear Senators Collins, Snowe, Sunnunu etc. start
scrambling to save their necks AND their jobs in 2008. I guess they are starting to realize they are drowning
politically and need a Life Preserver to save them from the flood of opposition now facing the GOP.

What hogwash!!!!
Mr Warner is being respectful to the office of the President????? What was he thinking when he supported the impeachment of President Clinton.

I believe president Bush should go down in history as a great president for his stand against terrorism, and re-organizing NASA. By defeating terrorism it will take long-tern activity after his term in office has ended, and that of course will require the UN, social activity, cooperation of religious groups in that region, development of new industry for export goods other than oil. The people in the Middle East must be given some self worth and useful self esteem to overcome the hold of the terrorist, and their hold on government. I do not recognize this campaign as a president Bush self serving campaign for his own purposes. I think this campaign got out of control because few really recognized how to defeat the abstract activities of the terrorist, but this is the 21st century and the terrorist must be eliminated for the sake of the global nations.

How long is it going to take for people to realize that this has been an ongoing struggle for the Middle East since 634 AD when the Sunnis and Shia effectively split over the handing down of Islam??? There is no military solution, perhaps not even a political solution….
What unnerved me the most was when Bush said yesterday that “America and its citizens will never be free from danger unless this ideolical struggle to bring freedom, which our creator intended for everyone, is fulfilled”..
Now am i an idiot, or did he just basically make this into a new “crusade” with that one statement???? He wants to make it out like its an us vs. them issue, when at the heart of the matter it is the religious beliefs of few extremists.
We were safe from terrorist activities and thought that the oceans would somehow protect us before 9/11; however, we cannot and should not go running around the world to every country we either a)dont agree with or b) has terrorists within its borders. This is a failed strategy. Why not spend the billions and billions of dollars protecting us here at home, instead of protecting the pockets of the oil industry???

Let us all hope that Senator Warner stands by his words this time and that Harry Reid accepts them — not positioning or posturing — Let’s us start withdrawing troops (or will Bush bungle this too) he has bungled everything else so far — someone take care of him while the Generals start a draw down.

For the past 15 years I’ve watched, as an expat yankee, while the USA pulls itself apart at an accelerating pace. You’ve become so polarized there is no place for a silent majority. Thinking is a rather quiet process. While some (most?) of us figuring out whom to trust, we marvel at the vicious vitriol. What possible good comes of name calling and “scoring points”. In your panic for a solution you lay blame on each other. Incredibly, you’ve made yourselves the enemy. You must see that you didn’t set this trouble in motion. Nor can you take your ball and go home. Is this really the time for party politics? Is it just my parallax view from New Zealand or has your strenght become your weakness, i.e. the tyranny of total freedom?

Debating whether the U.S. should withdraw from Iraq and the region is pointless in its merit. The debate is nothing more than both political parties maneuvering for support for future elections in Congress and the White House, this is the given syntax or language of politics, which is used to motivate or manipulate the party faithful to advocate the usual political rhetoric from years pasted. The reality is, no matter if a Republican or Democrat is elected in the White House, the United States will be in Iraq and region for years to come, even long after our military is no longer engaged. Now that the Iraq Pandora Box has been opened, there is no going back, we are in thick of a civil war, we can only move forward to prevent a mistake far greater than the first. So never take a politician regardless of political party at face value but read between the lines for the fine print. To bring any creditable resolve to Iraq and the region, several things have to happen first. i.) Our leadership in Congress and the White House need to put politics a side and tell the truth about failures, cost, and associated risks of losing Iraq. ii.) The White House needs to start making better judgements and decisions that are by nature more aggressive and competently executed to handle problems in the region. iii.) Congress and the White House need to be on the same page on risks assessments, pay as you go, and hardware-logistics project management of the war. Areas of failures – the surge is roughly two to three years too late. Go back to the drawing table and reinstate the draft and increase more military footprint and more missions to secure borders and strategic resources. Remove the current PM of Iraq with a more effective Shitte and Kurd leadership to co-govern Iraq. Run off the Sunni from Iraq – three is a crowd. Bush administration needs to go back the Saudis and tie the most recent weapons deal to stop their actions of funding the Sunni insurgents and al Qaeda foreign fighters. Use sanctions and incentives on Iran and Syria so they will want to come to our negotiation table along with the Saudis to stabilize the region. It must get much, much worse for all before any one party will negotiate. All this must happen before the Richardson, Biden, Kissinger or ISG plans can seed. It always cheaper to pay now than later.

I hope the Dems have grown a spine over their vacation. There is lots of house cleaning to be done, starting with Gonzales, Cheney, and GW. Come on Congress, bring our troops home and clean out the riff-raff in the WH. The people that put you into office can just as easily take you otta it next election.

Great! And the good senator from south dakota is recovered and ready to go back to work…..we move closer and closer to a majority, people!

There’s no easy road out of Iraq. Once coalition troops have gone the various factions in Iraq will be free to have their revolution unhindered and fight to the death over the power vacuum that opened up since Saddam Hussein’s removal. That’s when the meanest of the bunch over there will gain control of the country by spreading a very anti-american philosophy and we’ll all wish we had dear old Saddam back.

Bush is a liar because, in his first speech following the 9/11 attacks, he said this war will be fought in total secrecy. He told us that he is going to lie. Consider this fact: everybody knows that the invasion of Iraq was based on false evidence, yet no one has impeached him. Why is that? It is so because, despite what our politicians say, the situation in Iraq is going exactly according to plan. The US has so far achieved most of its objectives, and in that sense, it does compare to Vietnam. So, in the end, the US will lose in Iraq, but we will win all of the battles.

The headline is totally misleading. The Senator “suggested” a small pullback as a political point only. He then stressed that he would not support the democrats withdrawal plans. This is actually a non story. Warner supports the surge policy.

It is long overdue. Get out of Iraq now. Bush & Cheney already made billions at the expense of Soldiers and Marine lives.

The troops should stay. Senator Warner should go home.

All of our presidents have lied – except George Washingon.

Finally, someone from the republican side is sounding very presidential. Too bad it is so late in the game, so many lives lost… Maybe someday we ourselves will have a Democracy that everyone can live with. We can not expect to export democracy as long as we ourselves are having trouble with the most basic issues such as privacy.
Oh, by the way, thank you for allowing Elizabeth Vargas to anchor the evening news once again…Even though it is probably only for a little while???

Before Christmas,I see no reason that one more person should have to die for this insanity. Damn there armour plated
Humvee’s are on a ship, because of the cost to fly them. They do not care about our people! They don’t care about the Iraqi people or else they would have made sure they had water! I refuse to give Cheney any more money, as a matter of fact his damn company over charged us and gave a very poor quality of goods and service to our troops.
He gave them tainted drinking water, and these our are people. I live in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and we don’t sacrafice our own for nothing. Our national gaurd is needed at home NOW.
Who is helping the people in OHIO?
For God sake how is that any different than Katrina?
We have Armagedon occurring in our financial sector and I’ll be damned if when it goes down they are going to be stuck there, and it is going down. These were criminal acts that were committed and the FED was in on every bit of it. On top of the FED is a private business that makes up money as it needs it. We aren’t getting a damned thing out of it other than being controlled. Every 7 years or so there is no more cream left to SKIM off the top! Who has been paying for that, us!
Gordon Brown is now trying to do the same thing to the UK! The people own the country, not the damned politicians,
Or the rich and famous. Brad Pitt and leonardo DeCaprio and Angelina Jolie are the exception to the rule. There are a few other to that act like normal people that care, and pitch in to help!
I am so over that 29 billion dollars that that the investment industry took as a bonus last year, while I have to budget every damn dime to pay for it!
I want to see heads role for it, and Prison time! Have you seen how much money the lobbist are giving? If it didn’t sway decisions then why do they give so much? Thats called bribary and they get the money to do it with by charging you and I with inflated costs!
We pay the oil companies billions of dollars of incentive money to do it to us to! That part slays not only at the pumps but also taking tax dollars.
ENOUGH THE BUCK STOPS NOW!

…as long as we do not re-deploy to Darfur…