They need to be patient. Bush will get around to them all eventually. He can only arm so many shia militiamen at a time, and those nasty sunnis keep killing them, instead of just dieing happily.

Why don't we send Dick Cheney over there so they don't have to wait long?

Take a number...

The nerve of those people, not being grateful for everything we have brought to them. We destroyed their infrastructure, most have no electricity, no plumbing, no public transportation and no jobs. Why shouldn't they be standing in line to kiss Shrub's feet? We gave them Helliburton and KBR, unfiltered water and garbage running in the gutters on the streets. People are held without being charged and many have been tortured. Many more have been sent to sample the hospitality of other countries thanks to our generous policy of 'rendition', Bombs fall out of the sky onto civilian homes and soldiers invade private homes (when the bombs aren't being dropped on them) in the middle of the night, terrifying women and children. Our military dogs pollute holy places. And they aren't GRATEFUL to us? You just can't please some people, can you? Ungrateful wretches!

Bush brings his own form of "hell on earth" with everything he touches and everywhere he goes. Now Bush wants to bring even more death with his warning of more "pre-emptive" strikes for whatever reason he feels would be financially and politically advantageous to him.

Let me guess, Dawnglo, Bush is evil but you support our troops.

Let me guess, Dawnglo, Bush is evil but you support our troops.

For a lawyer your triteness and out right unpatriotic post step you down a knotch.

Bush is evil but you support our troops

You bet I do! I support every single man and woman who has been sent into harm's way to fulfill some warped fantasy. I am behind them 110%. Because I want these wonderful people to come home safely certainly doesn't mean I do not support them! I would just much prefer for them to come back in one piece, considering that they are over there fighting for a lie. What is happening here is not in any way a reflection on any of them...it is for SURE a reflection on the people who hold their lives so cheaply that they would first, send them into battle ill-equipped and second, keep them in a situation where they are facing continuous danger STILL ill-equipped. We have been there for almost 3 YEARS and our men and women still do not have adequate equipment. That is not only outrageous, it is CRIMINAL. PARENTS are purchasing body armour for their children over there. PARENTS! It isn't THEIR job to keep our army properly prepared and properly equipped. It is the job of the UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. Don't try to tell me Rummy or Shrub or Condi give one hoot about ANY of those wonderful people except where those great men and women can further the warped ambitions of the criminals in Washington. Again, the 3 year failure to give our men and women serving in a theater of war proper equipment is CRIMINAL.

IMPEACH BUSH! IMPEACH CHENEY...but first take away his ammo

They could just drink some Halliburton water and get it over with. Only $23,456 per bottle, if they pay what Rummy does.

"Oh boo hoo, we're dying."

Get over it, crybabies. Before we invaded Iraq, you couldn't walk a block down any street without tripping over like ten WMDs. Now? All gone. And we've made your country into one of the #1 producers of chocolates and roses.

But all you can do is bitch, bitch, bitch and about what - Death? Grow up.

SULLY: But all you can do is bitch, bitch, bitch and about what - Death? Grow up.

That's right you never will, thanks to our fearless fuhrer...Hile Bush!!

"an unnamed Afghan "informant" reporting on a conversation with another Afghan "consul." The date of the document -- four days after 9/11 -- is worth noting but without further corroboration, this document is of limited evidentiary value"

From the link of abc you gave...

How often have we heard from the news media that an unnamed source provided the proof and we are expected to believe them, too?

When the definitive history is finally inked, the occupation of Iraq will stand as a test case of how not to build democracy.

As Hobbes would tell you were he alive today, job one is to bring security in people's daily lives. Otherwise, people will devolve back into a state of nature, relying on tribe, sect and family.

I will never forget, several days after the fall of Saddam, as Iraq collapsed into an orgy of looting and destruction, Donald Rumsfeld musing that people "were just letting off steam" and "freedom also means freedom to do bad things."

What utter cluelessness. Rumsfeld should have been fired on the spot for having gone in with too few troops and no plan for ensuring security when the Iraqi regime collapsed.

All you rightnuts who refuse to allow any criticism of the Bush Administration on this point are harming US security. Unless we acknowledge the mistakes made in Iraq, we are doomed to repeat them the next time we are placed in these circumstances.

If you have to go in, go in with plenty of troops, the right kinds of forces, with a plan and the means to immediately restore security and quality of life, and a plan for replacing the fallen regime with domestic forces that have some legitimacy.

What did we do in Iraq? Too few troops. No plan for dealing with the collapse of law and order. Pie in the sky ideas about restoring Iraq's infrastructure. And the idea we could just fly in convicted felon and Iran agent Ahmed Chalabi and a few gunmen and they could run the place for us.

The most outrageous thing about it is how, in the Bush Administration, there are zero consequences for failure. Cheney and Rumsfeld are still in their jobs, Wolfowitz got promoted to head the World Bank, and Feith is making big bucks in the private sector (just like "Brownie" who turned his stint as FEMA head into a rich consultancy affiliated with GOP bigwig Joe Allbaugh.)

If previous Presidents ran their wars like this, we would be speaking German by now.