Boyo, that liberal press is sure on a roll today!

The public overwhelmingly want the war to end and yet it is not being reported that way...big business owns the media and big business is making a fortune right now, it is sickeningly obvious.

Especially the defense contractors. 600% pay raises are down right sickening when my wages barely grow at the inflation rate.

Blood money, that's what it is.  Exxon keeps reporting record profits of blood money.

A RETURN to polarized Iraqi politics???? Exactly WHEN was Iraqi politics NOT polarized? Because I missed that time

When Saddam was in power?  Maybe the CIA could hire him again?  He made a good boogeyman before think how scary he'd be now!

the republicans have been masters at polarizing.  especially in 2002 when they ran pictures of saddam and osama alongside that of senator max cleland.   now they're running all those phony "we must stay until we win" and "they attacked us on 9-11" ads meant to keep the limbaugh-hannity crowd in line.   the fact is that we listened for months to bush's song of "see you in september",  and the reward for that is more of the same old rhetoric.   qb bush keeps demanding extra downs.

Journalism is dead, it's final rattle went along with Dan Rather when a mistake was used to run him out of town.  The GOP and big business now write the news and according to Kurtz they have every right to do it.  Enablers, the whole lot.

Where did all these blood thirsty talking heads come from?

Sure there's editors, and such, up to owners suporting this. They cannot even acknowledge that there is a viable argument here. A mortal argument. Instead OH Oh the leftwingdems are having a hissy fit God knows why.

I wonder, was this crap followed by a "Freedom's Watch" commercial?

The people who made those commercials have defined a new low in political propaganda. Yeah, calling Petraeus "betray us" was over the line, but the Freedom Watch ads are political pornography.

Yeah right, those libruls just want to sturr up truble.

Here's some of what happened immediately after the Petraeus spectacle:

- Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha, the Sunni leader representing the Anbar "renaissance" was assassinated

- We found the new direction involves the United States arming the Sunnis, yes the same sunnis who ran the country under Saddam, and the ones whose army we disbanded, and the same sunnis that were hit by de-bathification. Those sunnis , who will use those weapons next against - well who knows?!? Probably everybody!

- the Pentagon reports there is "an increase in intra-Shi'a violence throughout the South" I can't imagine why Petraeus would not convey this info during his testimony;

- the Iraqi government freaked over the friends of Cheney making tons of money Blackwater private security firm, after it's guards allegedly randomly murdered/gunned down Iraqi civilians

- nonmilitary U.S. personnel are restricted to the Green Zone, yep things in Bagdad are looking up. They're Grrrreat!

- Iraqi Red Crescent reports 1 million people are internal refugees due to ethnic cleansing (this does not include the 2 million refugees who have fled Iraq)

- and the House Committee on Oversight announces an investigation into a potential cover-up by the State Department's inspector general of fraud in U.S. Embassy and other Iraq projects.

- Finally lets not forget the soldiers who continue to die or become emotionally or physically maimed.

How can the Note and other idiots like them be so stupid in not being able to connect the dots. The above happened all in about a week. The General says progress and the war mongers in the media nod their heads up and down and up and down and then instead wonder why in the world those dang libruls are so negative.

And what, in the end, will these war gongers have to show for it? Does anybody go back (besides historians maybe) to read the drumbeat for the Vietnam war?Morally, as stated in the many reasons above, their writings are reprehensible.

Rush Limbaugh has already proclaimed that the "surge" is a resounding military success which has reduced the Democrats to a quivering pile of gelatinous goo.

This, of course, was right before he expounded on the brilliance of Norman Podhoretz.

How much longer can the "Liberal Media" ignore the Elephant sitting in the Bean Dip? We went into Iraq for the Oil. Even Alan Greenspan confirmed it this week. One of Bush's Texas Oil cronies just signed an oil deal with the Kurds. The worthless Cable TV talking heads will spend hours upon hours "investigating" Hillary's fundraising...while a war criminal sits in the White House, lying to Congress, lying to the public, and wasting our national resources with impunity. The damage done by this imbecile will be with us for a generation...maybe longer.

It's madness.