Bush just ordered the military to abandon one of its own to terrists.

Bush abandons a US Soldier to probable death, and they fall all over themselves supporting him.

If he wants to cast blame, he can start by looking in the mirror because he and his Congressional Republican colleagues have rubberstamped the Bush Administration's failed policy for nearly four years.

The only thing these guys ever use a mirror for is to fall right through the damn thing.

To look at events in Iraq and then read Bush's glowing evaluations of Rumsfeld and Cheney, I can only conclude one of two things:

1. This is exactly what they wanted to happen, or

2. Bush is not in touch with reality.

  You say one intelligent thing in all of your relentless posts and then you can't stick to your own point.

  You were right the first time-- "just stop it" and get the focus off Kerry. Obviously, achieving that is not helped by pathetically desperate attempts to draw parallels from things said by Republicans.

  Attempting to deflect criticism from Rumsfield by making the point the military leaders have some input is lame but it no way is a criticism of the "troops." If you want to attack the defense of Rumsfield have at it but use your head and don't tie it into the Kerry situation.

  My point in response to the post should be obvious to anyone with a pulse. BTD's lame attempt to equate Bohner's comment with Kerry's by saying he should be required to  "apologize" the way Kerry was coerced into apologizing for his obviously won't work and serves only to perpetuate the fuss over Kerry's words.

As I said: Thanks. You're a good man, decon, and I have faith in you.

You'll figure out the point. You're not dumb. You don't really need a moonbat to explain it to you, do you?  

   That's why I cited Pogo the other day: "I have seen the enemy and he is us."

  This narrow-minded, intolerant attempt to exclude anyone who doesn't march lockstep with YOUR narrow vision of what this Party, and yes this country, should be is a primary reason we have been so unsuccessful.

   People working for success understand that requires building broad coalitions, cooperating, compromising and yes, sometimes putting personal feelings second to the greater good.

  But, I'm the one fixating on this? Get a clue, son.

Bush just ordered the military to abandon one of its own to terrists.

  It seems a pretty poor tactic  not even to bring up the subject about which you claim to be making a point. but, I guyes that's just me, because I don't share your and BTD's ability to make points so well.

   I also don't think the real work is pointing out what's wrong with the Republicans. That's pretty self-evident. The real work is making more things right about us and less of you and BTD and your ilk would be a huge step in that direction.

  If you look at the electoral map, it should be obvious that WE CANNOT WIN without getting the vast majority of moderate Democrats and an often  very large plurality of independents to vote our way.

   Those who would rather WIN and work for incremental progress rather than LOSE and watch things drift further in the wrong direction despair at how much harder loudmouth screamers espousing the most extreme positions on everything and then seeking to ostracize all who actually have the temerity to think for themselves and have different opinions do get very frustrated.

   If everyone who would find find you an offensive, immature, intolerant, zealot was in fact a "Republican troll" I daresay about 90% of the American electorate would be Republican trolls.

  Even if Boehner's comments had not been deliberately misrepresented as criticizing "the troops" when they inarguably do no such thing but rather blame certain generals in the military command, it would be a stupid post that in no way would serve to deflect attention from Kerry which one would have to be a world-class idiot not to recogniaze as the "point."

This story has legs becasue we keep it going. The irrelevance is obvious. This is what PPJ is paid for. As long as you keep responding to him and defending Kerry and trying to show the hypocracy of the GOP, Rove and Bush, the longer the story hangs around. As long as their is a discussion going and the GOP thinks people can come to TL and here both sides with PPJ and others representing the opposing side, they hope the visiteres will think the story is actually important and that Kerry really might have meant what he said.

But other than hate filled invective towards me, I have not seen much of anything that I understand from him.

I have no dialogue with him because of this.

Kerry blows a joke, that his audience got, and rethugs and trolls everywhere get their panties in such a bunch you'd think Kerry had lied us into that Iraqi war, personally killed thousands and wounded thousands more, personally ordered the killing hundreds of thousands of innocent iraqi men, women and children, willfully bankrupted us while doing it, and then lied continuously about his motives and how much trouble we are in losing TWO WARS simultaneously...oh...wait. That was that other fella.

Nice job, Mr. boosh. As the commander-in-chief THAT is where the buck rightfully should stop, the public has caught onto the lies of bush and his republican guard, and the General (Clark) is 100% right that it is the waging and conduct of this war that needs to be questioned, not the words of any non-candidate not running for office.

Iraq belongs to the bush and his republican guard; they broke it, they bought it, they own it, and whatever desperate efforts they make to disassociate themselves from it are pitiable, pitiful, puerile, and not being believed by anyone.

This has been the same as when bush hit the road for his Soc. Sec. overhaul - the more he talked, the less people believed him, and the more his poll ratings dropped.

In the last two weeks of trying to slam dems for his failings, bush's credibility on Iraq has plummeted, now down to 29% with a whopping 80% of the electorate believing that he is either lying or hiding the truth. But if they WANT to continue destroying their credibility, who am I to stand in their way?