The administration tries to blame Iran, but failed to make the case. For instance IEDs that the administration claimed could only come from Iran have been found to be manufactured in Iraq. No wonder the Bush administration has no credibility.

two things

My typing sucks. Always has. If you ar going to ’sic’ every typo, your ’sic’ fingers are going to get very tired. I don’t care. If I fix my typing I forget where I parked the car.

Does it ocur to you at all, that conservatives are individuals and have differing opinions amongst themselves. I am not accountable for what the Doc or JW say, any more than they I. If you think you win a debate with me by saying ‘but Angus Podgorny said’…you are sadly mistaken.

and, midder, thanks for the intelligence update. I’m amazed how the CIA, FBI, military intelligence agencies and foreign intelligence agencies can’t find stuff out like that, but some puny little blog commenter on OW can. But then OW knew exactly where OBL was hiding, so who knows.

That’s awesome. A true conservative wouldn’t have invaded Iraq but you liberals are goddamn traitors for opposing the war!

If you don’t ask, the answer is always “No.”

Bush isn’t a conservative and Chamberlain constructively engaged Hitler.

Again, I’m confused. Kerry said “all of the allies.” Syria and Iran are now our allies? Were they our allies in 2004?

What are we going to ask Syria and Iran? Please stop sending weapons and personnel into Iraq? Stop killing our soldiers there? Stop sending weapons into Lebanon? Stop building a nuke?

Iran will be interested in “talking” for only the amount of time it takes them to finish their nuclear research. Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq will talk with Iran simply because they don’t want to be on the receiving end of an Iranian nuke.

If we were smart, we would be working covertly within Iran to erode Ahmadinejad’s increasingly fragile support base. That’s the most sensible solution to eliminating the threat he poses.

Ha!

I love conservatives. Just love ‘em. To them, it’s magical thinking to believe that constructively engaging our enemies through diplomacy might achieve anything.

On the other hand, they believe that refusing to speak with our enemies at all is the serious person’s plan to concrete results.

Fellas, our invasion of Iraq put us at the mercy of Iran and Syria whether we liked it or not because we couldn’t control the borders ourselves. We essentially gambled the fate of the mission in the wild hope that radical forces in Iraq and the neighboring countries, whether official or unofficial, would do the right thing because, well, just because.

And we get accussed of magical thinking. Brilliant.

George Bush: I hope this won’t take long I was gonna play hopscotch with Barney.

Iran Strategy Group: very good move Mr President, that’s bold decisive leadership.

Oil and Oil. Republicans and Foreign policy.

Would Syria have agreed? Iran (still hasn’t agreed this time)? China? Etc

No this is the rankest of speculations on his part. Just like when he just knew the answers to all our problems was to invade Pakistan and go right to OBLs address (which we assume OW would provide us) and kill him.

Sigh. Oil and water. Progressives and foreign policy.

Please stop talking, I can’t brain anymore.

I think the problem is GW BUSH has too many “play dates” and not enough work time scheduled.

It’s like: hey, let’s start that big terror response drill that simulates attacks on 10 American cities! Everyone to their post!

Bush: but I want to go for a bicycle ride. I don’t need training wheels anymore, you know.

Drill Leader: That is your post George. Don’t forget your Snack’ems.

But I guess that’s “magical thinking”.