Attn Bush haters……if Iraq and Afghanistan were so bad, WHY HASN'T OBAMA removed all the troops from both countries already? He's had six months to start the removal but hasn't done A THING. Maybe he has information that you are not aware of. Maybe you believed another Obama lie.

Man, you aren't very bright. After the mess Bush and Cheney made you don't just pull all support. These countries are really screwed up by the former GOP leaders. President Obama is pulling our troops out in an orderly fashion to try and maintain security................Why am I trying to explain this to you? It's way over your head.

Obama will be imoeached for going to bed with haters of America– Iran and Syria.

Being a general in the United States Army he surely knew the workings of military intelligence (and lack thereof). The fact that he went along with the war, knowing in his own mind (hence the early job loss) that it was the wrong thing to do, leaves me wondering what he is up to now. A run for President in 12? Well I guess even he is better then what the republicans now have on the list now...

Mr. Powell may like to claim that the ends may someday justify the means but only because it would help hide the stain on his career when he presented the bogus bio-weapons intelligence to the world to justify the invasion in the first place..

Obama is handling this correctly. If you remember, but I doubt you do, that in 1953, Mosaddeq, the democratically elected leader of Iran, with Socialist sensibilities was overthrown with assistance from the CIA and the British. "The Shah", a US-friendly dictator, was instated in his place , and he went on to oppress the people of Iran until the '79 revolution. The US's meddling has been a large contributor of US-Iranian friction to this day. Prior to the coup, Iran was actually pro US.

This coup was perpetrated because the British wanted the oilfields, but Mosaddeq resisted... and the US, frozen in the grip of the right-wing witch hunt for communists, were worried that communism would rise up in Iran. So in an overzealous, scaremongering tactic, the US's intervention produced the exact situation we are trying to extract ourselves from.

Now we have a situation where the younger generation wants more democracy. They will need to fight for it. The US's meddling has already exhausted any credibility we might otherwise voice in this situation.

One last question... Tiananmen Square? Should we invade China? What about Zimbabwe? Mugabe is a dictator... perhaps we should invade there, and let's not forget the Sudan and Somalia. We need to invade them too.

Yes, the Kurds can thank the U.S. for giving Saddam chemical weapons, otherwise there were no WMDs. A preponderance of the evidence suggested Saddam did not have WMDs and the evidence suggesting that he did was stretched or outright fabricated. Ask Joe Wilson about Nigerian yellowcake.

The US was attacked on Sep 11, 2001. On Sep 12, 2001 we should have 140k troops combing Afghanistan looking for Bin Laden. We did not and as a result, he is still at large. Now Pakistan, a known possessor of nuclear weapons, with scientists who have already leaked nuclear secrets, has been infiltrated by the Taliban and other terrorists.

Oh and by the way, the cost of the Iraq war was somehow kept off the general budget. So this country is even deeper in debt than it realizes, at the exact point more people need financial help than within the last 20 years.

But all you hawks keep thinking the Iraq war was a good 'war'. It was not.

I see that you fail to acknowledge the whole truth about the situation. The U.S. president cannot govern based on the remains of the day. He has to have vision concerning the "now" and the future. He has to negociate with whoever is in power–remember...there is still the issue of Iran's pursuit of weaponized nuclear material. Despite the horrific aftermath of the election, while regrettable, we still must deal with Iran. BTW–the ruling clerics & Supreme leader are the true power in the country. I suspect Ahmadinejad will continue to try to distract Obama with foolish calls for public debates...while trying to avoid a growing resistance movement within the clerical hierarchy.
Finally, It was Obama's outreach & Cairo speech to the muslim world that inspired the young, educated & tech savvy Iranians–coming off the heels of the pro west election in Lebanon– to want seek a better relationship with the west. Please tell the truth.

Why has the ticker become ad space for this show?

Just like a conservative: complain about things that don't exist.

I was a W fan and boy, I don't miss him at all, LOL!!!

You know, you're the type of people that says one thing one day and says another day different, after all, you seem to know what you want or expect...oh yeah, I'm that good.

Of course, Obama will comply, thereby fully betraying any cause for democracy in Iran.

I wasn't a W fan, but I sure do miss him now.