Stop whining and get the troops out of that stupid, stupid war. Lose the "my way or the highway" attitude and solve some of our real problems.

Democrats are "irresponsible" when they try to help poor children but der Furher has no problem helping his rich friends.

It's said above that the vote was "unanimous", yet there was opposition to it, including Senator Clinton and Senator Obama among many others.

United we stand, divided we fall.

It did not say 12000 military personnel had contributed. It said 12000 people. The comment about the military was that they had been flooded with comments of support from them.

“No unit or member of the Armed Forces specified in paragraph (3) may be deployed for Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom (including participation in the NATO International Security Assistance Force (Afghanistan)) unless the period between the deployment of the unit or member is equal to or longer than the period of such previous deployment. “

We all know that there is a TREMENDOUS need to allow out troops time off to be with their loved ones and obtain much needed rest. This measure, however, would have limited our ability to move in a moments notice to wherever needed and with the level of troops required. That is why it was defeated. Hey MoveOn… Before you can “keep speaking the truth…” you need to START telling the truth.

MoveOn and their uber-liberal groupies have absolutely no basis to make that accusation at Gen. Pertraeus. They surely aren't living in Iraq or serving there. They base these assertions from left-leaning editorials and meaningless opinion polls. Wake up America! Gen. Petraeus is the commander on the ground. His job isn't to create foreign policy or come up with reasons why we should or should not support it. Seems to me that MoveOn and the radical liberals who support them have committed an egregious error of misplaced anger.

What is truly "disgusting" is the foul stench of the commentary from all the above liberal mugwumps who have a big yellow stripe painted down their backs.

They all sit in their cozy houses sipping chai and lattes and comment about stuff they have absolutely no knowledge about. After reading their vitriol, it is clear that not a single one of these mugwumps have ever served in Iraq or Afghanistan. They have never seen a jihadist up close and personal and have no concept of the hatred that drives these terrorist pukes to want to kill any and all Americans; simply because we are Americans.

Their nearsightedness is appalling. Do you mugwumps honestly believe if we pull out of Iraq right now the terrorists will say, "Thank you very much we will not attack you anymore"? Or the naive belief that diplomacy or isolationism will actually work with non-state terrorist organizations. Get a clue! We are going to be fighting these SOBs across the world for the next 30+ years. You liberals need to start getting used to it.

Obviously, if they say nothing about congress voting against our freedom of speech by voting to condemn those that speak out against this administration and congress and do not even report on the congress's vote to end habeas corpus this week, they are part of the problem not part of the solution!

Just check back in 5 minutes, CNN will have deleted this comment because it casts a negative image on them. Is CNN in favor of freedom of speech?

They have now deleted my last four comments to this article.

I guess I will have to start a blog on this.

>Posted By Daryl Hauser Sutherlin, Or

Another poster child for educational reform

I'm afraid by the time America wakes up we'll be a shattered nation....the cracks have already been started....they have us fighting each other while they go about their business.....we are being attacked from within......Wake up!!!

self-serving, religious zealot (or you vote like one), ignorant (because you ignore common sense and the facts), xenophobic, homophobic, Doesn't like anyone who didn't grow up on the ashes of the American Indians, weren't those people a bunch of European IMMIGRANTS?

Before you stereotype me, I'm a straight, white 2nd generation decendant of European immigrants with a couple of kids. And I still think you're a bunch of loosers that are ruining it for the rest of us.

The republicans are trying to make political hay out of this one because they have little to make hay with nowadays. The democrats on the otherhand should be reminding people that we live in a free country and we entitled to say what is on our minds.

MoveOn.org is right about the military. There is growing disgust with this war among the military. The toll that it has taken upon military families has been terrible. And to think that some of these people will be going back again and again (5,6, maybe 7 times in the future); their disgust will grow even more.

I do not blame the military, they are doing their job. General Petraeus's report to congress was something the administration was supposed to do. But since the administration has no more cred that job fell to the General. I never expected him to tell congress that the 'surge' was a failure; he would have been without a job

Just because you do not support the current administration does not mean that you "hate the troops".

This is typical rightwing rhetoric.

To put it in layman's terms...you can love a football team and dislike the coach. Not liking the coach(es) does not mean that you hate the team.

The current administration has always been good at hiding behind words such as "Under God", Patriotic, and Good American so that if you do not agree with their policy it makes you look like that you an Atheist, Unpatriotic, and a Bad American.

The troops' duty is to do what the "commander in chief" and his General's ask them to do without question.
They have done that to their best ability. We have the greatest Armed Service's in the World thanks to the brave men and women who serve in them.

It is our job as Good Americans, Patriotic Americans to make sure that our Commander's In Chief's are using our troop's for missions that are in our nation's best interest and I think that a lot of American's are starting to see that we may have been led astray.
Remember these 2 "little things"?
Osama Bin Laden and Afganistan?
was it not them who really started this war with their attack on 9/11?

Also, you fiscal CONSERVATIVES, how do you FEEL about REPUBLICANS spending 500 BILLION DOLLARS on a WAR that should NEVER have been FOUGHT?!?

IGNORE the truth, STIFLE free speech, ATTACK disenters, CHERRY PICK the facts, look the other way...did I MISS anything?

unlike the bush administration, moveon readily displays where their information comes from. perhaps some of you moveon-bashers should visit the site.

meanwhile, the fox networks and rush limbaughs of the world spread their right wing interpretation of current events with nary a fact checker.

wake up, red state people. or maybe you're all too preoccupied enjoying the creature comforts of your high-performance, low-mileage sport utility vehicles.

as the son of a two-war veteran, i am appalled how this administration continues to stand for nothing but fearmongering, lies and death - the death of 4000 american soldiers, tens of thousands of iraqi civilians and, above all, the death of the truth.

this administration has spent enough money to give every man, woman and child on earth $120. perhaps we can buy friends around the world faster than we can kill these "trumped up" enemies. no, mr. president, what good would that do?

god bless our troops. it is a shame that their real enemy is their commander-in-chief.

You made soda shoot out of my nose.

This administration uses the media as their puppets, and it seems to be working.

Thank you for your service to our country and know that many of us in the service are feeling the same way you are.

I don't think many believe Mr. Bush (I refuse to call him my President) tells the entire truth about much of anything, especially anything that reflects badly on him.

We talked about impeaching out last president for lying about who he had sex with, why are we not considering the same thing for a president that has lied about his reasons for war, and about how that same war is going?

I really don't understand people's priorities anymore...

Furthermore, when it comes down to it the generals that are in place now have been around long enough to know that if they don't give glowing remarks about the administration they lose their job. So if you wonder why the military is slowly turning liberal its because its the most accurate cross section of our nation and what the military feels normally reflects what the populace feels almost perfectly.

So regardless of your feelings about the ad the media should actually take up the pickets and attack all the politicians who have so far played a game of banter with the lives of America's youth.

you are dead wrong in your argument. When Kerry was attacked by Swift Boaters, republicans never showed any outrage and there was no vote in the senate condemning it. Here, ar least 22 democrats joined with republicans to show their disapproval. That is the difference of mentalities between dems and republicans. Why didn't these republicans who voted to condemn the ad, voted for Webb amendment to show their support for the troops? That clearly shows these republicans are trying to protect Bush than their support to the troops. And, it was quite evident that Gen Petraeus was delivering Bush's message in a twisted way as if he was doing a favor to bring 30,000 troops home which didn't mean anything.