jimmy_from_north_buffalo

Perhaps it might help if you were better informed before you post. Several Conservative groups have come out and called this a very bad thing. I would also conjecture that the Conservatives would be crawling out of the woodwork had this been John Kerry's daughter.

That about says it all

You do not need to be an economist to know a dollar is a dollar, nor do you need to be a weatherman to know when it is raining. Same with Iraq. No need for military experience to see it is a failed military venture. BTW, I don't like Ferguson at all. He proved his imbilicity by supporting the Iraq invasion. Seems hard to fathom someone with intelligence and education doing something like that. Perhaps a mental defect on his part. I was merely using his number to show what people out there were talking about. And I stated it was outlandish.

Impossible to count. The place is anarchy. Sunnis vs. Shiites, Shiites vs. Shiites, Kurds vs. Sunnis, common criminals run amoke, throw in some foreign fights and who knows who is killing whom. We do know its a great big mess. I just think it's childish for McCain to suggest 20k more troops would make a difference at all. My guess is that he is setting himself up to grab the angry losers vote after we pull out of this mess. He could argue that he had a plan but the media and liberals--or this there a difference in the world of the angry losers?--brought on defeat, just like in Nam.

Not radom at all. the 20k comes from McCain, as my original states. And the one million comes from Niall Ferguson, the neocon historian who has said 1 million would be necessary to quell Iraq. He says it here, as he has said it elsewhere: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jh.../ixopinion.html Glad to see you can write more than one sentence at a time.

Your premise is based on faulty logic and a lack of basic facts. The media is not the only place to get info about Iraq. Government agencies publish info also. Military officials discuss their thoughts based on first hand accounts and NGOs [non government organizations] publish many reports. Also, there is no single media. There are many media outlets tthat give different details and perspectives. Yet taken together all these different sources lead us to a single conclusion: Iraq is in choas. The attempt to blame the media, or to say that the majority of Americans don't have enough information to conclude this is really a run from reality.

In other words, if you have faith then don't worry about those of us who don't.

Just ignore him. Draw strength from your faith and all the others in the world that buy into your notion of this all powerful thing up there that no one has ever seen. Christians are always trying to push their beliefs on others. Just let this guy do his thing. What harm?

You are projecting your anger. It's not the media's fault Iraq is the way it is.

Probably. I believe the media, so that's a pretty good indication of my imbicility. Good thing we have people like you who can see through the lies

"nothing" A good way to describe your post

I see. And how would you say the reporting is flawed? I see Iraq in choas. Is that wrong? Of course I'm just a stupid idiot who reads the main stream media, so that is understandable.

I'm guilty as charged! The sad fact is that the whole debate about Iraq has become "shallow and silly." And while the "shallow and silly" debate rages, ten more American troops died yesterday. Perhaps I should just pose the question, what did they die for?

You come to the rescue of Darin in a pretty pathetic manner. First he says I don't know anything about the military and now you, the BlueFire, accuse me of not knowing mathematics. Accusations from small minds does not make a debate.

Hard to know where to start with this. I take two points of yours from this. A) You claim I have no military experience, and you say my post demonstrates that. Hmmmm.....perhaps you can point out how this 'fact' is proven from my post. B) Why would you even need military experience--let alone as an enlisted man like I was--to see Bush's Iraq policy is a failure? And what about all the generals and vets who have said the same thing? Please explain yourself

Feel free to elaborate, if you can

I've been watching some of the senate confirmation hearings for Gates and they seem strangely out of touch with reality. I could agree with sending more troops, but 20,000 won't make any different as far as I can see. If you sent in a million soldiers I think you might be able to cover the whole country and bring stability and close the border and all that. Of course that would mean a draft or getting other countries to send troops, so I don't think it will happen. The other option is getting out and that would be a mess. I bet a million people would starve to death if we left and the country completely broke down. So I guess I'm saying I, like President Bush or anyone else, have no solution to this problem.

get a dog

and north

I have an old Pat Buchanan yellow magnet ribbon from when he won back in 1988. I'll always cherish it. Canada is north of the United States, in case anyone didn't know

That has not really bothered me much. Maybe it should but I think the government should have the power to protect us in that way as long as there is oversight

Pat Buchananan aside, here. Can anyone make a list of Bush's accomplishments? What has the guy done that was positive?

I use to love a quart of choclate milk

any grade. Why did you like the teacher and what did they teach. Did a teacher ever make you like a topic you previously hated? Just wondering

We are reasonably sure it wasn't the mother who jacked off into mead107's microwave!