The real enemy is Al Qaeda, yet total silence from the Bushies on their efforts agains Al Qaeda, oh but of course the Bushies harp about Al Qaeda in Iraq (they weren't there in the beginning) we have allowed Osama to simply exchange addresses, he now resides in a sanctuary in Pakistan's tribal area, an area where he planned the London bombings. On Sept 11, Bush said he would go after even nations that harbor the terrorists, well Bushie what are you waiting for? Oh, there is no oil in Wazaristan.

So now after 5 years we pay $9 Billion dollars a month, we've lost three divisions of combat capability from wounded soldiers, and we've nearly lost half a division of brave fighting men and women, soldiers who were loved and walked where we now walk, who held the same dreams and hopes we all do, for a war about what? Oil is the only answer.

For those who try to draw comparisons to our early struggles as a nation, how much more ignorant can a person be about both our naton's history and our present situation in Iraq? For one, there never were any exploding carriages in Philadelphia or the Boston Commons or colonial women strapping bombs to themselves and blowing up local marketplaces. The surge has given the Iraqis sufficient time to achieve political reconciliation, however Cheney and the Bushie are more concerned with Iraq's oil legislation that carves up their oil for American oil companies–this is exactly what the invasion of Iraq was all about, anything else is pure rubbish.

we could of paid for better technology to monitor terrorism.
we could of improved our Homeland security.
we could of help our medical health system.
we could of secure our boarders.
we could of spent more money into the economy.
we could bought solar panels for every home in America.
we could of given free gas to the Americans.
we could help all them home destroyed in Natural disasters.
we could built better electric hybrid cars.

WELL GUESS WHAT, THE ONLY WEAPON OF MASSIVE DISASTER WE FOUND WAS IN OUR COUNTRY.

AMERICA HAS NO MORE VALUE....THANK YOU WASHINGTON DC.

could have congress stopped BUSH? YES
could have American stopped BUSH? YES
the war is still going on inside and outside your country!!!
DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!!

I notice Bush's current rating is about 32%. I wonder how many people really supported the war to begin with. I suspect a lot. How many of those same people are now against the war. I suspect a lot.

In essence, the support of these people is what pushed us into this war and now they go ooops!, my bad, sorry, I didn't mean it. This after 4,000 dead americans.

Yes, these are the same people that can tip the balance of power.

It's called accountability, and it is sorely lacking in many aspects of our society. A society that is all for something, unless it involves some hardship for them. Another person's property or now as we see, life, is of no consequence.

I suggest that any future endeavors be a whole hearted effort of the american people, and that we make sacrifices here at home, such as our parents and grandparents did for WWII. Yes, even obey the Constitution.. Article I, section 8, paragraphs 11,12.

Now there is the chance for a new president. New choices.
I've seen an article about a blunder that McCain made confusing sunis and shiites. Somebody had to whisper in his ear to correct him (03/18/08). This is a man who would be making decisions about war? Very worrisome. What is also troubling is that there is only one article about this. I haven't seen anything on T.V. The public has the right to know about this.

We need to bring our troops home, the sooner the better, and spend the war money on making our war wounded, body and mind, more comfortable and improving our own country.
The Iraqis have all our oil money so they can use their money to rebuild Iraq.
by the way, Gary, you are fantastic!

The money spent on the Iraq war is mere pennies in the eyes of the economic change you refer to. Coming from the oil industry, may I quickly note that the combined size of the industry supporting fuel around the world is far larger than the economy of the US and China combined. Every refinery or oil rig is a multi billion dollar project with multi million dollar maintenance and operating costs. Not to mention we are all digging for an energy alternative that simply doesn't exist yet.

War is always a tragedy, and we are NOT fighting the same war we fought 5 years ago. First, we fought a war to end Saddam's regime. We won...mission accomplished. Now we are fighting a new war, to defend the regime that is trying to set itself up in the country. We've done this before... the US Revolutionary War was fought from 1775-1783. The French had to help us win the war both financially and militarily. The constitution was not ratified until 1788.

It took us 13 YEARS to build a nation and then many more to end slavery, allow women to own property and vote, and we are still correcting injustices. It has taken Iraq 5 years to overcome much deeper seeded hatred and begin making progress...and we're complaining?