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Duke James in Griffin GA,

WOW man! I don't want your heart to explode! Slow down and take a deep breath. I never said we are always right! I said the government is to protect its people! Your rambling crossed my eyes! It made no sense! Who is trying to kill the leader of the catholic faith and how is that protecting me? I made a simple statement and your made a rambling response and resort to name calling. You are an angry, angry man! Slow down and lets have a civil discussion! We may even learn sometime from each other!

Sure Craig, I bet Steve meant to finish his post with "...but I hope that never happens."

It's clear that good things in Iraq would be a big disappointment for those hoping that it's failure will lead to Republicans being removed from power and sent to their special corner in Hell.

Steve, Swansboro NC:

Your hopes for the future are exactly why Republicans fear your party. You hope for the worst for the world and our country simply to discredit Bush. CNN will help you by contining to report bad news and ignore good news.

Posted By Jay, Kenosha, WI : November 3, 2007 12:05 pm
Jay, if I were to apply the same logic to your post as you apply to Steve's post I would accuse you of wanting Steve to want bad things for the world for the purpose of discrediting/demonising those who disagree with Bush. Do you think that is a fair analysis of your post? You are not afraid of the left, you are afraid of the construct of the left that exists only in your own mind. Do you understand how someone might be concerned about the judgments of sombody like you who can not tell the difference between reality and his own imaginings?

Isn't it just an amazing coincidence that a few years after writing a position paper concerning their desire to see American military power expanded into the Middle East as part of Americas' role as the last super power and also an illustrative warning to future enemies, (i.e. China) that an event like 9/11 happened that opened the door for the execution of their theories? I'm talking about the Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz paper written when they formed the PNAC. Do a little studying on this and then let me know if you believe in coincidence. By the way, I don't. Which leads me to believe there is a special corner of Hell waiting for the architects of this Iraq war. For you supporters of these people you are probably ok on the Hell thing because of your ignorance.

erika morgan black dimond wa:

I'm sorry that you believe that democracy is impossible in Iraq and that America should just give up and go home. It's odd then that so many Iraqis voted during their last election despite the threat of violence.

Mark, you are right on all your points of our history, but you have missed the most important thing. The Americans made America on their own with no help from any foreign invaders; the French who helped, the German mercenaries all had the grace to return home or marry into the local population and became Americans. We need to take the lesson we taught the world and go home, preferably with our toys (when Democrats want to give time to leave Iraq, it is time to gather up the toys of war and safely pack the traveling containers that we are thinking of). Democracy can only be hatched by the folks who will live with it, it is by its nature a grass roots affair not a top down thing. No matter how much the neocons like the all powerful executive from which the crumbs will flow to the people, that is a monarchy not a democracy.

Steve, Swansboro NC:

Your hopes for the future are exactly why Republicans fear your party. You hope for the worst for the world and our country simply to discredit Bush. CNN will help you by contining to report bad news and ignore good news.

Musharraf's loss of control in Pakistan will allow a complete takeover by the Taliban in Afganistan. The Turk's invasion of northern Iraq and the response of Iraq and Iran will lead to complete chaos. Bush's war will be revealed and a complete and utter failure. Just as Katrina showed the world what Bush is, what happens in the next week will show even the republicans that the U.S. has made a very big mistake.

What reason could the president and Mukasey have to avoid saying that waterboarding is torture other than the practice of waterboarding is currently being used. If waterboarding is not being used, then there is no downside to calling it what it is–torture. The president is between a rock and a hard place on this issue. If the president says that waterboarding is torture he would be defining himself as a war criminal. If he says that waterboarding is not torture, the world will look at him mouths agape in utter disbelief that he has truly lost whatever sense of reality or humanity that was ever in him.

Eric, from THE Republic of Texas

yea thats a great argument, lets use something that happened 60 years ago with just ONE of the people who voted against waterboarding as a way to null and void the subject of torturing anyone we want in horrible ways. i wish some of these AMERICAN TOUGHGUYS went through 1 day of what these powerless people are going through in the middle east. its easy to put an american flag on our pick up truck when we are IN AMERICA....lets see you try that in the middle east toughguys i bet you that the last people that would do that are these people voting for a tougher government. becausse when you beg for protection all it shows is you have the inability to stand on your own two......

Christian, Selden, NY:

I took your advice and looked it up. Brian Ross reported that Khalid Shiekh Mohammed lasted two and a half minutes of being waterboarded before giving up information that foiled more than a dozen plots including an airline attack on the Library Tower in Los Angeles. I'm sorry it had to be done, but if it is true I'm glad those people are alive today.

Your concern that an innocent person would suffer this treatment is valid. I hope it never happens.

The humiliation that occurred at Abu Ghraib was a terrible incident but it is unfair to paint all of our soldiers in that light. Our soldiers are people too, they love their children, families and do good deeds. I'm not surprised you think how you do because stories like Abu Ghraib are publicized endlessly, while more positive stories such as "Iraqi soldiers donate $1,000 for wildfire aid" are forgotten. We do not thank our soldiers enough.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/29/iraq.donation/index.html

Holding one down until they think they are about to drown is how my father taught me to swim..

STEVE SUMTER SC. THINKS that the most critical role of this american government is to protect its people where did that crap come from. this george bush government is in the protective mode meaning national security. The United States Of America Messed up. It tried to kill the wrong person. It the united states failed so did it's intelligence agencies. They screwed up. There are some people that you simply do not shoot at. Now then this country will pay for that act-that action. so steve do you really think that the president is trying to protect you people like you-I saw this-bull- the president is probally try-int to protect his daddy's butt. what was daddy bush doing in 1981? he was the vp of president reagan so what about before 1981 what was he doing? there is a senator in the low country by the name of graham you go to that mans office steve and you ask him what does he really know then you ask him this how did the low country get those contracts to build those new mine resistance trucks that will be going to iraq. so steve what ya say; a senator gets info he goes to the white house with that info the next thing ya know his state gets a billion dollar contract from the pentagon; I know who and what you are steve-you aint -t. so do not try to post this crap about protect-ing the american people you people are about national security covering your own butts for trying to kill the-leader of the Catholic faith so know what to hell with the likes of you and your kind.

For the sitting President to say that Americans should pay more attention to the warnings of Osama bin Laden is truly stunning hypocrisy. All through 90s bin Laden boasted of a plan to bog America down in bloody occupations at various places in the Middle East.

I don't fault the administration for invading Afghanistan as that regime was a factual menace (as opposed to a menace only in fiction, as Saddam Hussein was.) If this President actually understood the terrorists' agenda, then he would have foreseen the conversion of Iraq from an impotent secular fascism to a hotbed of religious terrorism driven by overpowering anti-American sentiments.

There are two clear lessons that some people seem to have failed to learn in the past six years. One is that killing large numbers of foreign civilians makes new enemies for your organization regardless of whether that organization is a military superpower or a covert criminal network. The other is that George W. Bush couldn't keep his eye on the proverbial ball if the man had horse blinders surgically implanted. Terrorism is a legitimate and serious concern, having ended the lives of perhaps 3% as many Americans as automobiles have in this century. However, if we are seriously concerned about reducing the extent of terrorist threats in this world, then we should also be seriously concerned about removing from power the one American President who has done far more than any other to strengthen and broaden the extent of these threats.

He should get together with Guiliani and their deck of 911 cards would be complete.

Lets not forget what Bush did 4 years ago:

http://nyletterpress.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/the-impact-of-bush-linking-911-and-iraq/

Bob from San Francisco wrote:
"Yes, we all want to protect America from terrorism and other threats, but bombing and invading countries in a quest to control their oil is not exactly the best route to take."

Dude, if this were really "all about oil" as the tinfoil hat contingent is adamant at stating, we would have simply invaded Canada and Mexico. We get five times more oil from these two neighbors than we do from Iraq.
(http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html)

Plus, it would be a hell of a lot cheaper and easier to invade Canada and Mexico. I mean, we just follow the interstate highway systems north or south and neither of these nations would put up much of a fight.

Hell, most of Mexico wants to come here anyway and most Canadians are either too cold or too stoned to care either way.

So please, can it with the "no blood for oil" mantra. At least get some sort of dogma that attempts to make sense.

I heard today that Teddy Kennedy has publicly stated he will not support the confirmation of Mukasey as Attorney General, due to the candidate's refusal to label the interrogation technique of waterboarding as "torture."

Waterboarding is the controvercial terrorist interrogation technique in which accused terrorists are tricked into believing they are drowning... in other words, to scare them so bad they spill their guts on the intel they know.

Now, let's just think about the irony in the two paragraphs above...

It's too bad that Kennedy's concern for the simulated drowning of terrorists didn't extend to innocent 29-year-old single female secretaries who ride in his Oldsmobile.

Bush's strong words againts the ORG. idiots and for his attorney general was right in line with and for all the progress we HAVE made in our efforts in Afganestan and Iraq. AS we did after DEC 7, 1941 when we were viciously attacked in Pearl harbor, OUR president did what any great president would do ( with the least bit of guts ) When attacked on your own soil. President Bush has kept our great city's and subarbs from being attacked again by taking the fight to our enamies. any thing short of that would be uneceptable !! All accounts of lately show much progress in the war fronts. It's the political side that needs help. theres an old saying " YOU CAN LEAD A HORSE TO WATER BUT YOU CANT MAKE HIM DRINK TILL HE IS READY " The people we are talking about have been treated in ways so horrible and tourcherously different than anything we as americans could even concieve for over 30 years under saddam and hundreds of years before that. SHAME ON those who think that we or the Iraqi people should be able to work out there differences and move on with a new and SO new way of life FREEDOM did not happen over nite for the USA either OUR founding fathers hashed and rehashed our constitution for many years with melt downs full fledge braws in fighting out fighting everything you could imagine. Iraq's legacy will be decided by IRAQ, How great the forsight of our founding fathers to record all of this so OUR president could give this gift of freedom to the Iraq people by helping to stablize there country while they work out the problems they have. As far as Bin Laden goes He has been in hiding for over 6 years 6 YEARS he hasn't seen his own freedom,, he is living an existance of looking over his shoulder or up to the skies for bombs instead of his god, what worse of a fate could he endour in one of OUR court rooms GOD BLESS AMERICA

Matt
Don't get me wrong, I detest Bush. My point was that in no way, shape or form can he cancel, postpone or otherwise prevent the elections from taking place next November. Anyone that believes that probably wears a tinfoil hat at night.

BTW, that A in high school translated to a 3.76 in History/Poli Sci.

As far as Boulder goes, I had a blast when I visited there a few years ago. It is still a hotbed of far left liberalism, does the name Ward Churchill sound familiar, merely an obseration.

Steve, Sumter SC :

steve do your research and look at what bioll clinton actually tried to do to get bin laden before he left office and what he left the bush administration to do about the problem that they didnt how about you do a little research on that and i think your faith might just be restored in bill clinton.. heres the link if you need it

http://www.cnponline.org/index.php?tg=articles&idx=Print&topics=86&article=242

Here is what President Bush said about bin Laden on March 13th, 2002:

‘I truly am not that concerned about him’ ... ‘Deep in my heart I know the man is on the run, if he’s alive at all’

It's unfortunate that he didn't take his own advice 5 years ago. Or 4 years ago. Or 3 years ago. Or 2 years ago. Or last year. Do you suppose he'll take it now?

Jay, Kenosha, WI

hey jay did you know that all the people that were tortured at ABU GHARIB and humiliated were INNOCENT!??! do you realize that middle eastern and arab people are actually PEOPLE!!!! yes they really are!! they love there children they love there families they do good deeds. its as if they judged us on these idiots that protested at that soldiers funeral because the US MILITARY allow gays in the army and they protested saying god was punishing america by killing its soldiers!!!! those people are absolutely crazy!! so are the suicide bombers so are the religious radicals. and you know what we are creating more and more crazy people out there by imprisoning and torture there families and killing them "by accident"...do research before you blatently say americans arent safe.....and start thinking about people instead of countries....

Jim in Topeka,

Why where the "W's" missing from the keyboards? Who do you think took them? Do you honesty believe 9-11 was only planned after Pres Bush entered the White House? When these guys wanted to learn how to fly but not takeoff and land, who was in office and where was the intel then? Was Bin Laden not offered to Clinton? How did so many Dems get "duped" into voting for the war? There is enough blame for both parties. While I am grateful for the opportunity for all of us to disagee and disent, your arguments are weak!

coming from a president that ignored the first osama bin laden report stating OSAMA BIN LADEN DETERMINE TO STRIKE AMERICAN TARGETS before 9/11...now he has the nerve to talk down to congress!?!? this man is not humble at all and he has a complete disregard for the people of this country and the due process it was built on!!!!

>GOD BLESS BUSH FOR TRYING TO PROTECT US !! U DUMMYCRATS!!

>Posted By PHILL IN GRAND ISLE

Aside from the annoying use of all caps, it is disheartening to know that there are millions in this county like ol' Phill in Grand Isle. Democrats aren't dummys, Phill, they are just a little more level-headed when it comes to national and world issues. Yes, we all want to protect America from terrorism and other threats, but bombing and invading countries in a quest to control their oil is not exactly the best route to take. It actually creates more terrorism and hatred to the US.

DO YOU GET THAT PHILL?

Sorry to pick on you personally to make a point for all Bush defenders.

Bob, Seattlle

George will be remmbered as the President when 9-11 occured. He shall be rembered as a reactionary cowboy, who was handed world opinion on a plater and managed to turn absolute world support into total distain.

He sahll be remmbered for his absolute disregard of law and his mishandleing of what should have been (as unnessary as it was) fast and decisive victory over Iraq and the removal of Saddam, the entire action to include reconstruction should have envolved our forces on the ground from start to finish in less than 18 months. He shall be remmbered as swearing to the American public that bin Laden woulf be hunted dwon dead or alive and leaving office with bin Laden still evading capture very much alive. He shall be remmbered as the guy who was handed a surplus and nation owing 5.9 Trillion dollars, leaving office with no surplus and the nation owing 10 Trillion dollars. He shall be remmbered as the guy that laughed at California when they asked for help because of the manipulation of the energy market, saying that his good friends at Enron proclaimed it the free market economy working. He shall be remmbered as the guy that entered office with gasoline at 41.25/ GAL and left office with $4.00/ Gal gasoline. He shall be remmbered as the guy that started office with a great American City named New Oreleans, enough said.

Yes George shall be remmbered.

You're right, Mr. President. Don't listen to the American people. It doesnt matter what we want. Shame on all of us for trying to tell this government of us, for us, by us what we should think. Shame on us, indeed. Thank you very much, Mr. President. You are a fine example why this system needs to change.

Mr. President,
Where is Osama bin Laden?

President Bush will be remembered in history as one who almost single handedly 'stood up' to the formost threat to mankind in this time. We need more that will continue in this fashion as opposed to spineless whimpering that truly puts our nation, and indeed – mankind, in grave peril.

Don't yall understand! Yall telling our enemies that we were wrong. Don't do that.GeorgeJr. is allowing us to sleep here instead of having to sleep there. If the White House gets bombed, it will be on you Democrat's hands. GeorgeJr. and Cheney are doing their part by sending our warriors over there. GeorgeJr. and Cheney said they would suit up but their close friends won't let them. They say we need someone to protect us here at home.

Randy, Bush has in fact undone previously clear-seeming guarantees of the constitution and federal statute, so don't assume you know anything about civics b/c you got an A in high school. See: torture, enemy combatants, wiretapping of Americans, extraordinary rendition, etc.

p.s., noting that someone is from a place that is known for people of a particular political stripe does nothing to discredit that person nor bolster your own opinions. it is just evidence of your hostility to that worldview, and perhaps person and region.

Who was President when 9-11 occurred. Who had received briefings on bin Laden from Clark immediately following the oath of office. Who ignored Clark and had a hissy fit because the "W's" were missing off of White House computer key boards. Who spent most of the time prior to 9-11 on vactaion. Who said make me a War President and we will have two terms. Who decided that he was above the wishes of Congress and could change Congressional legislation by writing in the margins that he disagreed with it and would nor follow it, and then turn around and sign the legislation making it the law of the land for everyone but him. Who has no concept of what good intelligence is verus what he wants to hear. Who charges ahead like a bull in the China shop and refuses to listen to anyone after he has decided that its his way or no way.

"""GOD BLESS BUSH FOR TRYING TO PROTECT US !! U DUMMYCRATS!! """

Well, if he "tries" and fails miserably, increasing the threat of terrorism (as acknowledged by our own intelligence services) through his shortsighted policies and mangled execution of war that has left so many maimed and dead Americans, does god still bless him? Wouldn't god prefer someone with the wisdom to both try and succeed? Maybe let's try a Democrat.

"Strike Iran, the signing statement that he made enables him to the cancel 2008 election because of a national emergency."

David in Boulder (Left-Wing Capitol of the Country) take a civics lesson. Bush cannot unilaterally cancel the presidential election. Sheeesh.

It's beyond Bush at this point, folks. our problems started way before GW and frankly was in 1948 as pointed out by Christiane Amanpour in her God's Warrior's show about Islamic Extremism and where it got its start. Take a look at the book called Milestones – By Sayyid Qutb. Long ago this war got started. Now we're in the thick of it. The world is watching us squabble over stupid things now. Forget Bush. We're hosed if we think it is up to one man. It's our entire American society. Check out that book and Epicenter by Joel Rosenberg. Both will give a glimpse of where we are going.....

The intellectual element on this blog is almost overwhelming. The combined brainpower here would be almost enough to toast a slice of bread. I just don't think I can hang with sharp-witted phrases like "bush sux" and "bush is rediculus" and "yeah you dummie". Every time I try to argue with "the Left" I'm put in my place with a humbling disparity of gray matter. I surrender.

Bush: Sit down and shut up. We're all really sick of the lies, venom and idiocy that comes out of your mouth.

If they had said they caught or killed Osama ,he would have become a martyr, instead of the Evil Rabbit that they can now pull out of the hat when ever they need him to scare everyone to get what they want.I think they killed him a while back,but telling us would have taken that card off the table.why do yall think they named it Texas-holdem poker,the river is the last card up ,wonder what card that will be?

spinstopper -

I agree, 9/11 is an American tragedy which is why it offends me that the President invokes 9/11 all the time for things that have nothing to do with national security. The same goes for Rudy Giuliani.

This fight isn't about the safety of the american people, this is about Bush covering his rear from congressional oversight.

Bush's rants about Code Pink and MoveOn.org are nothing more than bumper-sticker slogans for the and unwashed so-called "conservative" masses who are Jones-ing for someone to bash as their "leader" and his administration self-destruct. If he had heeded and responded to the warnings in the summer of 2001 of Bin Laden's plans to attack the U.S., we probably wouldn't be in this sorry state now.

I like how Bush compared Lenin and Hitler. The comparison to the two is rediculous and offensive to anyone who has a basic understanding of history. He said that Lenin was responsible for tens of millions of deaths and bringing the world to the brink of thermo"nucular" war, despite the fact that Lenin died 20 years before the U.S. developed and used nuclear weapons exclusively against civilans. There is no doubt that Lenin was an excessively cruel human being, but even the highest believed number of those killed by the Reds during the Russian Civil War is not even a third of those killed during the Iraq War. It's also interesting to note that the people who stood up to Lenin were fascistic monarchists, and the ones who stood up to fascists before and during WWII were communists, anarchists and socialists.

You don't need to be a conservative to continue to support this loser. Just delusional and blind. But you neo-cons think that name-calling your opposition is reasonable political discourse. I've heard your cheap-shot talk-show robots, and they only care about the Constitution when a Democrat is in office.

We need a REAL conservative in office. Not one who states that his opponents should "spend more time responding to the warnings of terrorists like Osama bin Laden" when he himself has ignored the man for four years. Mr. President, just what have YOU been doing about bin Laden? You certainly aren't interested in him unless you can use him against your political opponents, or as a means to motivate by fear and hate. Typical neo-con strategy that is wearing quite thin.

Neo-cons, you are all absolutely pathetic. After 25 years of your mishandling this government and destroying the civil liberties of our Republic, I am glad that the American people have finally had enough of your delusions of Empire.

Yeah and if George Bush had performed like the Commander-In-Chief he was supposed to be and not a cowboy, Osama bin Laden would be dead or in captivity. Instead, Bush evading the responsibility for the consequences of his actions and attempting to shift the blame to others.

We also have the White House press secretary, trying whitewash Bush's failure to lead the Nation properly, telling us that bin Laden, responsible for the deaths of almost 3,000 people on U.S. soil, is "irrelevant" and "not in control."

I believe in military terms this is called "deriliction of duty." Too bad it is not an impeachable offense.

How dare this incompetent idiot mention Osama bin Laden?

Sorry, Georgie, your family friend is right where you and the Saudis left him, wherever that is.

You failed to get bin Laden, you snivelling, National Guard-deserting loser, because he's part of all of this, isn't he? ...Conveniently showing up just before elections, just before Paetreus' testimony...who do you think you're fooling?

Time for the Dems to tell Bush to eat it on this one.

Just remember all you Bush lover's. Hitler scared his followers into believing the Jews needed to be destroyed. Thank heavens Bushies term will end soon and hopefully some semblence of world order can be returned.

9/11 is not a card CNN and I am offended that you are using such a phrase to describe it..

3000 people died on 9/11. It's an American tradegy! One that should not be forgotten or repeated!!

Bush is pouting and throwing a tantrum because his attorney general nominee is facing problems. Typical Bush.

"some in Washington should spend more time responding to the warnings of terrorists like Osam bin Laden and the requests of our commanders on the ground and less time responding to the demands of MoveOn.org bloggers and Code Pink protestors." UNBELIEVEABLE!!!! This coming from the acting President who ignored the threats from Bin Laden which resulted in September THE 11th.

I praise the efforts of MoveON and
Code Pink. Most of us agree with their logic yet do nothing about it. These good folks have the integrity and drive to protest this loser administration and their faulty, evil, warped policies. Look up Fascism and you will realize how scary Bush and his cronies are.

The war-mongering, macho attitudes that resonates throughout parts of our great nation is fueled by little-dicked followers who can't think for themselves. (over-compensation). They need a leader and unfortunately have found
one in Bush. There is no sense in trying to talk some sense in these guys, they will always FOLLOW because they lack the tools to ever lead. I am afraid many of the GOP lawmakers are among this crowd.

Courage folks. If we can get through one more year of this hell, there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Bush plays the 9/11 card. Well he's never done THAT before. What's next, Guiliani playing the 9/11 card?

with regards to the moveoners and code pinkeye I agree the dems shouldnt be in bed with them, however Im am pretty fed up with the boogey man stories. Doesnt OBL have kidney problems and doesnt he need dialasis for that problem, how good is health care in pakistan and afganistan if a cave dweller can stay alive this long with out treatment. In other words OBL is probalby dead, lets get out of iraq and finish off the rest of OBLs' clan.

Bush using 9/11 to justify a confirmation for Mukasey is a fear tactic and shows no respect for 9/11 victims. And to use bin laden and our commanders on the ground in the same sentence makes no sense. God Bless America.

I wish people would stop trying to compare what Bush does to what Christ would do. He is the worst possible example of the teachings of Christ. I promise you he has never read the Bible with any care whatsoever. He lives only in the Old Testament. There is already a religion for folks who live only by the old testament. If you live by the new testameent you are Christian. He does not, he is not, and people need to stop being shocked when he does not act Christian. He is a drive by Christian at best.

As a conservative, my biggest concern is that he will continue to undermine our chances to elect another Republican president.

At least past presidents had the common sense not to continue to embarrass themselves and our country when they became lame ducks. Maybe Cheney, who is if nothing else far more intellectually skilled than Bush should let him know the party is over. They have been fond out. We are no longer fooled. The legacy is done too. If the war on Iraq is ever won, it will be done during someone else’s presidency or at least under another president’s plan and they will get the credit. More than likely the next president will get credit for ending our invasion of Iraq.

I believe that the war in Iraq was poorly thought out. We should have focused on Aganistan until we completely finished the job.

With Mukasey, he should be listening to the description of the interrogation technique that the senators are describing. Does it sound like torture? I would think so at the outset. For those that think Democrats are solely to blame for the failure to capture and eliminate terrorist, they are sadly mistaken. All American have that responsiblity. If we are not serving in the military or parts of domestic law enforcement, then we the citizenry should be looking out at what goes on in our daily lives.

What can we do? We can learn to use less materials that come from areas in conflict; an example is less oil from the Middle East. How many of us really need to drive an SUV? Does it really fit our needs especially in an urban area? I can't imagine what you would need it for. If you have kids like me, then get a mini-van. They have just as much space and get better milage. This takes all of us to protect ourselves.

Other things that are affecting this "war on terror" are our foreign policy and where we trade as well as how we trade. Some other things are other people who are angry that they are not in charge. We have to remember that we need to have our foreign policy reflect our ideals more than our finacial needs (not always possible though); countries that are democracies and have good human rights records should be our allies. In some cases, no matter what we do as a country and as individuals, we will never make some people happy because these people see themselves as the "only true rightful leaders" and there can be no others. Those are the people that we will have the most trouble dealing with.

Phill in Grand Isle wrote: "GOD BLESS BUSH FOR TRYING TO PROTECT US !!"
I don't think Bush could care less about protecting us. All he cares about is his neocon crusade to spread Democracy to the middle east (and pad the pockets of the oil industry and defense contractors in the process). If he really wanted to protect us he wouldn't have taken troops out of Afghanistan to fight an unnecessary and illegal war in Iraq.
By the way, has anyone else noticed that the Repubes aren't smart enough to figure out that "Caps Lock" thingy?

It's funny to read the comments from the Bush supporters – comments that are so immature and "hickish". If you are a Bush supporter, please try and provide the rest of us with some intellectual and factual information that supports this ridiculous presidency. It's presidents like Bush and citizens like you, who embarrass the hell out of me when I travel internationally.

CNN is showing it's liberal bias just by describing 9-11 as a card. It's not a card, it was a devastating attack on our country by religious extremists. I applaud the president for going right to the reality of our country's situation and call the dems out on their unwillingness to stand up for America and it's citizens.

Most Americans do not fall for that 911 scare tactic. He can fool some of the people some of the time, but he can't fool all of the people all of the time.

We need to fully understand the fact that the most critical role of government is to protect its people. We are targets folks! 9-11 is a fact! These crazies will patiently outwait us! The great thing about democracy is we can debate and disagree! We also need to be protected!

Come on guys! The prez is right!

So Bush... can you give us an update on bin Ladin? Or is he still no longer a priority, as you said years ago?

Just go away to Crawford...soon!

Worst president ever!

yeah you dummie… and where are we… in afghanistan? No, we are in Iraq. This whole war is a big sham, and George W. Bush is the worst president ever.

Posted By Jesse Pittsburgh, PA : November 1, 2007 11:55 pm

That's why I have never used the word "president" in the same sentence as his name, and never will.

Bush should spend more time listening to the Americal People, and less time listening to Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Ann Coulter, and all the morons at the Heritage Foundation.

Don't pay any attention to the facts that Bush and Condi Rice had plenty of warning about 9/11.

Bush is the greatest President ever. Lighten up on him, folks.

What's even more amazing is that he has obviously spent the time to research moveon and code pink.

With all the current affairs in the world, he is more worried about the governments contacts than his job performance.

The problem here is that the Attorney General is the only guy who can prosecute the President for breaking the law short of Congress starting impeachment proceedings. The Dems in Congress are fighting to put in an AG that will enforce the law with regards to the President and Bush is using the spectre of ObL to try to get an AG that won't prosecute him. As far as I'm concerned that is the only issue in choosing the next AG.

Why haven't we impeached this guy yet?

I fear George Bush more than bin Laden.

At least with bin Laden we know he is the enemy.

The Boy Wonder declares that "some in Washington should spend more time responding to the warnings of terrorists like Osama bin Laden," proving once again that he has no sense of irony. Bush has been calling the shots for 7 years. Why didn't he go after bin Laden after 9/11 instead of invading Iraq? Talk about a complete lack of responsibility.

And why wouldnt he play the 9/11 card? Its the only thing he has ever done effectively. His entire presidency has been built over the dead bodies of over 3000 Americans. Prior to 9/11 his approval ratings were in the toilet and it was apparent to everyone what a dog had been appointed to office. For some deluded reason, after 9/11 the american public got in line with him and believed that his presidency would be anything but a failure. That was a huge mistake. Bush has been a failure all of his life, why would he change now?

Iraq,Iran,WMDs,9/11, Bush goes with what he can spell.

WHERE IS OSAMA??????????????????????

He is still running why Because we are in IRAQ that had nothing to do with 911

Geting OSAMA means no more money for greedy corpate republicans. Corpate republicans can keep the super vacum on the US TREASUARY as OSAMA is running around and the U.S. is waisting time in IRAQ that had nothing to do with 911.

The whitehouse uses words like terrorist, 911 ,honor, freedom, homeland as PUNCH LINES to get what they want more money.

Democrats are terrorist for tring to help unissured childered, Democrats are terrorist for tring to end this pointless war in IRAQ so the BROKEN military can work on getting OSAMA.

Remember the ALAMO and say no to SCHIP
Remember 911 stay in IRAQ with no real strategy

If Bush really loves this nation, he would fire Dick Cheney and than Resign!

Bush behaves like a spoiled brat. If Congress doesn't give him what he yells for he throws a tantrum. Message-noone believes you any more, George. Grow up and join the adult world.

How about YOU respond to Osama and capture him already, you idiot.

Screw the "four years per term" crap. He needs to resign right now and quit wasting this country's time.

America, you do know this mass murderer will manipulate national and foreign events to keep himself and his cronies in office, right? Mark my words, he has no intention to let go of his power until we are all left in ashes and soot. The people who died on 9/11 mean nothing to this monster.

So, more pompous arrogant BS from the idiot that got us into this war and forgot about Osama bin Laden. Well done Mr. President.

thankyou president bush for standing up for this nation and for our freedom,everything our presidenthas done to better this nation he has been criticzed

Is terrorism not a real threat?

Who cares about the rhetoric? Put all of the politics aside and look at what situation our country is in.

There are thousands of people out there in this world who wake up everday and try to kill innocent American citizens here at home, let alone the mess in Iraq.

Let's not complain about what politicians you don't like because of the terminology they use. Grow up and get over it! They are, in the end, details.

"some in Washington should spend more time responding to the warnings of terrorists like Osama bin Laden and the requests of our commanders on the ground and less time responding to the demands of MoveOn.org bloggers and Code Pink protesters,"

BIN LADEN DETERMINED TO ATTACK INSIDE THE UNITED STATES read an August 6 2001 intelligence breifing. Bush was president.

October 12, 2000, USS Cole was attacked. Neither Clinton nor Bush acted on the attack. Condi Rice stated that President Bush "made clear to us that he did not want to respond to al Qaeda one attack at a time. He was 'tired of swatting flies.'"

Democrats and Republicans both have responsibilities for mismanaging al Qaeda. However, under Bush's two terms as president, and with all his 'wartime powers' he has done very little to actually show his command to bring anyone responsible to justice.

To those who keep asking, "Where is Bin Laden?" Have you seen pictures or images of where we think he is? It is like looking for a needle in a million haystacks. It also does not help that the local people are protecting him.

Look how long it took to find the Unabomber or Eric Rudolph. There are still people from the Weathermen we are looking for. This is not going to take a few years to find him, it is going to take a very very long time to get him.

Remember this as well, these people want to destroy the US. They don't debate anything, they ask if waterboarding is torture, they just cut your head off.

The only way to beat them is at their own game.

To think, Jack Ruby waisted a good bullet. He should have held out and used it today on this SO CALLED PRESIDENT

Us LIBERALS are the only ones who actually do ANYTHING. You know, human rights, education, healthcare, happiness, respect, peace, real security (not the Bush kind). Also, it is true, us liberals need to step it up. WE MUST SUPPORT THE TROOPS AND THE ONLY REAL WAY TO DO THIS IS TO END THE WAR

Watch out for these drunkin brown shirts runnin things now they have over a year left to completely take over like Chavez did south of here.A dictator in the makin if ever there was one.They even have their own private Army...Black water.

Democrats would not waterboard a captured terrorist in order to prevent a terrorist attack. So what are Democrats doing to protect citizens? Nothing, they exist only criticize Bush.

Posted By Jay, Kenosha, WI : November 1, 2007 10:08 pm
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Do a google search on "torture effective" and learn about how ineffective and counterproductive torture is before you criticise someone for not condoning torture. The CVT (Center for Victims of Torture) site is epecially informative. People subject to torture just make things up to stop the pain.

The Democrats have the motive (insanity) and the means and opportunity (majorities in both Houses) to bring impeachmnt proceedings. But they still don't do it. Why is that?

I think only the dumbest of the dumb and the richest of the rich take Bush seriously anymore. His cards are all played out for regular folks.

Hasn't our nation been embarrased enough by this president, beginning with his admnistration's incompetence in preventing 9/11? Like some children, he should be seen but not heard ...

Bush is just a puppet of big business... he has been bought and paid for. They tell him what to do, when to do it, and what to say. All of the stalling in Iraq is about getting the oil concessions. The man has absolutely no credibility. The only justice will be when he finally realizes what a joke he is.

I would prefer our domestic issues to be taken care of before another country's.

Check out some of the already dirty fliers and releases the GOP is running after Clinton's comments on illegal immigrants.

One of our Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin said, "Those who would surrender a little of their freedom for a little security deserve neither and will loose both." I'll let you all figure out what that means for our Constitutional freedoms.

If Bin Laden is such a threat then why was invading Iraq more important than catching the next Hitler?

Bush is at war with terrorists. Democrats are at war with Bush.

All Hail Emporer of the American Empire Bush! You dems better not anger his majesty or more of your civil liberties will be abolished!

Bush comparing Dems to Nazi's...thats the pot coloring the kettle black.

Wait, I forgot something . . .
"thou shall not kill" (Exodus 20:13; Deuteronomy 5:17)

yeah you dummie... and where are we... in afghanistan? No, we are in Iraq. This whole war is a big sham, and George W. Bush is the worst president ever.

here we go again. as everyone knows, terrorists control people through fear, threats and intimidation. so what does george w bush do? the exact same thing. the biggest most powerful terrorist in the world is bush. watch out iran, he's got over a year left in office and bush has erectile disfunction. only war can excite him!

Would someone just stuff him away somewhere where he cannot cause any more people to blow up and have streets running red with blood. He and that evil thing Cheney should be behind bars. They're serial killers, big time.

There's been plenty of information showing there were clues to forewarn the Bush administration about 911.

He dropped the ball so we have to make up for it by condoning torture?

Come on people. Where does Christ condone torture? Instead talking about the New Testament people need to read it. Christ is also known as the Prince of Peace. Remember?

“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
“Love thy neighbor.”
“Turn the other cheek.”

I’m not saying we should allow people to fly plains into buildings, but I don’t believe Christ would approve of the way Bush is handling this issue.

I heard one Focus On the Family speaker say it’s irrelevant to say “What would Christ do?” That’s insane. The teachings of Christ, and how he told us to conduct ourselves are always relevant, or why would anyone call themselves a Christian?

AMEN PRESDENT BUSH. IT IS ABOUT TIME THE LIBERALS GET OFF THEIR BUTTS AND DO SOMETHING.

George Bush should look on back to the French Revalution! It was only 6 months after 9/11 when He Himself said of Bin Ladin... "we haven't heard from him in a long time" defending his want to invade Iraq instead on continuing to hunt down Bin Ladin.
Your stand just doesn't was Mr. President!

We are so tired of the "scare tactics" of this administration ie: references to 9/11 and Osama bin Laden. We feel that the best way to decide whether "water boarding" is torture or not is to have the candidates for Attorney General and Pres. Bush and Cheney undergo the procedure. They would then be able to give a true and honest decision.

Bush says "we should spend more time responding to the warnings of Osama bin Laden".

Didn't George Bush say–when asked by a reporter a couple of years ago about bin Laden still being loose–that he does not think about Osama bin Laden
much?

I don't get it.

Bush is on record of saying he's not concerned about finding Bin Laden. 6 years after 9/11 and we're not even close to finding him, it clearly shows, he does not want to catch or kill him, but use him as a boogieman to scare Americans into giving up our freedoms.

We can ignore the President's cheap shot, but we should think about the nominee for Attorney General. Mr. Mukasey's mealy-mouthed dodging and weaving on torture is an indicator that he is going to cave in to the Administration's delusional mind set.

We all know that waterboarding is torture. If the law says otherwise, then the law is wrong. It may not be as bad as interrogating someone with an electric drill or a soldering iron, but it is not something that I would enjoy watching. And, because Bush and Cheney are so secretive, I am sure that one day soon the stories will start coming out about the things that Americans are doing to foreigners in a hundred different hell-holes that we know nothing of.

As for Mr. Mukasey's nomination, I say that it would be better to leave the office vacant until the new president is sworn in.

Even in the Nixon Administration, two Attorneys General resigned rather than take illegal orders from the President.

Every American has an opinion on waterboarding. Every lawyer and certainly every judge should be able to give an intelligent opinion on it.

The right wing was the ones that cried about the Moveon.org adds, because they needed a smokescreen to hide the fact, there's been little or no progress in Iraq.

The Republicans were voted out in 2006 because Bush is a poor leader, and we had a congress that blindly went along with his destructive program.

If Bush really wants to help this nation, he should resign.

Good Point Georgie. Shall we move the campaign headquarters to Baghdad ?

Why didn't this idiot spend more time focusing on capturing Osama instead of invading a soveriegn nation that had no terrorism.
What a fool!

Funny that President Bush says this, yet he continually ignores and belittles the same American citizens who put him in power when they say they don't like his war strategy in Iraq and they either want changes or bring the troops home. Seems he should heed his own advice to listen to those who are the most important to him or should be – The American Citizen.

GOD BLESS BUSH FOR TRYING TO PROTECT US !! U DUMMYCRATS!!

Democrats would not waterboard a captured terrorist in order to prevent a terrorist attack. So what are Democrats doing to protect citizens? Nothing, they exist only criticize Bush.

It's too bad CNN would characterize the President's reminder of the danger terrorists pose as "a familiar weapon in his arsenal." CNN, please try to give this danger the credibility it deserves.

You tell 'em George ! Ride 'em Cowboy !!

Bush=TREASON

Well now- wasn't it Old bushie that said he wasn't concerned about Osama bin Laden? He sure didn't seem to care when he forgot about the fight in Afghanistan and attacked Iraq for his and dicky's oil business! Perhaps Dennis has it right, George must be losing his mind, he can't seem to remember what he said a while ago!

Speaking of Osama... where is he now? Mr. President, you've essentially blasted Afghanistan and Iraq back to the Stone Age. Have you found Osama yet? He still hasn't returned my DVD of South Park to me, so if you find him please let me know.

"Code Pink protesters"? Bush is amazing! The same old mentality exibited by conservatives in the Viet Nam era. Pinko, communist, hippy protesters interfering with our God-sponsored, rightous anti-communist jihad in Southeast Asia. Can we finally get past these morons and move into our rightful place at the head of world politics and a voice for justice? See my comment on Bush's Hitler analogy.