Sadr cut a deal. That's the only conclusion I see right now.The U.S. has been pushing the idea lately, that Sadr's long-running cease-fire hasn't really been that instrumental in the (apparent) easing of tensions in Iraq.

Oh, my god! The new model for Iraq is North Korea?? As if North Korea was a success story. As if we or the world need another suspended-aggression stalemate. Let's look at who likes this idea. The pentagon is reportedly all over it...

To Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK), his vote to support war funding with "benchmarks" has been a handoff of responsibility for the resolution of the conflict to the Iraqis. So much for "winning". To his credit, he didn't sound very

Colonel Ted Westhusing did the only honorable thing his commanders left to him. He took his own life.

>>What a load of crap and how dare the democrats screw the troops and the commanders in the field. (What's screwing the troops is a police action that can't be won, and a CIC (Bush) who keeps sending them back into theatre recycled and exhau

I've developed the habit of sorting people into categories, depending on when they realized that the Bush Presidency wasn't an unalloyed good thing for the country. These categories are marked by descending percentages of support for the administrati

Contrast President Gerald Ford's funeral with that of Ronald Reagan. No one has yet focused on the cost to taxpayers of the former, but the latter is estimated to have cost taxpayers at least half a billion, by the time all the bills came in. Review

"IT IS INSANE TO QUIT NOW. WITH OUR HIGH TECH. WEAPONS WE CAN STABILIZE IRAQ , which is about the size of Calif. I would put insurgents heads on pikes on display and, publicly execute execute 100 for each of ours,including their friends ,relativ

Pelosi's "Rocky Start": The Conventional Wisdom is Dead Wrong Once Again Take a lesson, the rest of you Congresspeople and media whores. It's a new day, and we, the people, are ready to be heard. Millions of different, valid voices will ri

Interesting discussion for a change, and all thanks to Sir Elton Hercules John! We really are in this together, and humans really are one big tribe-of-tribes. There must be a way to respect each other. That, and a secure place in the world, are what

The undying Donald Rumsfeld is growing thin. I honestly don't think he will die. It's not something he would approve of, so he won't do it. After all, he's kind of like the Deputy Decider, right? The Invisible VP and RoveKat can't stand the light, so

Apparently, Bill O'Rielly is staying up nights worrying about George W. Bush's "legacy". Well, someone has to, I suppose, though I'm not; any more than I spend a moment grieving, every time I flush the porcelain convenience. In one sense,

Bush Adviser Says Iran Bluffing on IraqNow wait a minute -- these guys are pulling this out of their hat. The administration has been pestering Iran for months about discussions concerning Iraq. So now, when Iraq says yeah, okay, lets talk about that

Bush Sets Target for Transition In Iraq:"Some of the most powerful IEDs we're seeing in Iraq today include components that come from Iran,"Bush said this at George Washington University yesterday. This raised my hackles immediately - even t

911 was His meat. He needed something to focus the public's mind on an enemy, so He could jump in as the avenging white knight. He didn't watch all those cowboy movies for nothing, when he was a kid. Funny, though; he hasn't "smoked 'em out"

Gitmo Prisoner Says Strikers Force-Feddonrevie202 said:<< I would rather have my tax dollars liberating a nation that we will have future trade with,...If you think that Iraq is being "liberated", then you haven't been paying at