Comments on: Specter: ‘We Have To Face The Fact’ That Iraq Is A Civil War

By: charles s. de rycke

charles s. de rycke — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 19:26:06 +0000

you just said on live t.v….
that the dem’s plan to impeach bush…
for practically nothing.

you impeached clinton for lying about a blowjob.

but, you consider diverting troops to attack a sovereign nation that was no known threat to us, while we were actively engaged against the 9-11 terrorists in afghanistan,
as an acceptable act… ?

you protected gun manufacturers, before voting for troop pay raises…

you convoluted medicare so bad…
seniors need lawyers to help them decide which plan to buy…
to buy.

you should be ashamed of yourself.

your name will come up again, on a ballot…
& god willing…
you’ll get your ass booted out too…
i thank you for your time…
chuck.

By: firefight

firefight — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 03:22:48 +0000

Boy you Americans are tough on your politicians! I actually thought what he said was pretty good, to the point, I liked the comment about semantics..

By: jake3988

jake3988 — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:20:21 +0000

100+ people a day are dying over there (as per CNN). 100!

that’s 700 a week! At minimum. That’s disturbing.

By: James

James — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:50:33 +0000

Yes, it’s a civil war. Thank you, Einstein. Now quick — WHO CAUSED IT?

Maybe Specter will find out that once he starts thinking he can’t STOP. Or maybe, like the repug snake that he is, he’ll slither another direction very soon.

By: greg

greg — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 04:53:04 +0000

Screw Specter! He abdicated his responsibility as soon as he started. He, like Lindsay Graham, talk the talk that they’ll actually do something then quietly cave in each and every time.

I hope the Democrats hold extensive hearings if they get the House back to shine the light on all of the corruption the Republicans have condoned and participated in. They can’t even bring themselves to try to stop war profiteering. Absolutely despicable,

By: Alexander

Alexander — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 01:44:04 +0000

# 52. Poor selection of words. I was thinking of rich, prosperous etc, but apparently the word also has the connotation of peaceful. These are ‘boom times’ for black humor then. I am not sure black humor is really all that funny though. No one goes looking for the stuff.

By: steve

steve — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 01:14:09 +0000

Not again.

By: Gregor Samsa

Gregor Samsa — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:52:52 +0000

There are many facts this administration needs to face about Iraq, as well as about its policies, and even itself.

But I won’t hold my breath: Introspection does not seem to come naturally to anyone in Pres Bush’s cabinet -beginning with Bush himself.

By: JaneESchneider

JaneESchneider — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:23:08 +0000

#50, hmmm, halcyon, not necessarily the word I’d use to describe these days…;-) Although I have to say that my best efforts at black humor came when my parents were dying…much the same end-of-world humor, it’s amazing what you can laugh at!

Good night!

By: Marie

Marie — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:54:19 +0000

He’s not even up for re-election, but he says what is necessary to boost his Republican friends. We all know that when it comes to the end, he bows to Bush.
Bush&Co are still playing the “we never said stay the course” card while denying the fact of civil war.
Specter talks the talk, but that’s where it stops.
Another soldier has disappeared in Iraq. One disappeared a month ago but I have not heard any follow up.
If these guys are captured, it could be very, very bad – considering that Bush decided that rules of war don’t apply – we can never take the high ground.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:52:44 +0000

# 48, Unfortunately these are halycon days for black humor.

By: Make Them Accountable / Is sanity returning to the Republican Party?

Make Them Accountable / Is sanity returning to the Republican Party? — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:34:41 +0000

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By: JaneESchneider

JaneESchneider — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:33:30 +0000

#47, you got a chuckle out of me, but I’ve got a pretty dark sense of humor anyway!

By: Alexander

Alexander — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:15:14 +0000

So there is a vicious civil war? Democarcy is still achievable. A rotating Presidency where the car bomber groups have the Presidency one year and the death squad groups have the Presidency the next year is the way to bring Democracy to Iraq. A little black humor there.

By: Pete_Bogs

Pete_Bogs — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:56:46 +0000

Specter’s right, but this is probably yet another issue he’ll talk loudly about but refuse to take real action on… worthless criticism, in other words…

By: JaneESchneider

JaneESchneider — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:53:38 +0000

#42, I think you misunderstood #5’s comment. As far as I can tell, he’s expressing his disgust with Specter, because Specter has constantly given us hope that he’s going to stand against the president, or stand up for our rights, only to dash our hopes when push comes to shove. In other words, yes, Specter’s telling the truth today, but will he tomorrow?I used to have a lot of respect for Specter, not so much anymore. I don’t believe that #5 is saying in any way that he does not believe Iraq is in a civil war.

By: TheToonGuy

TheToonGuy — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:52:17 +0000

Yes, Spector will say there’s no point in hiding the facts until Karl twists his arm and then he’ll support Bush like he always has. It’s sad, really.

By: Dog_named_Boo

Dog_named_Boo — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:51:02 +0000

AMERICAN forces are negotiating an amnesty with Sunni insurgents in Iraq to try to defuse the nascent civil war and pave the way for disarmament of Shia militias, The Times has learnt.

The tactic marks a dramatic reversal of policy by the US military, which blocked attempts to pardon insurgents with American blood on their hands after handing over sovereignty to a secular Iraqi Government in June 2004.

Do the people in Washington really think we stayed glued to the idiot box and buy into their reality based BS?

By: The+Unknown+Democrat

The+Unknown+Democrat — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:31:49 +0000

Reply to #5 by S. Look “S” who ever you are, Sen. Spector is merely telling the truth and it hurts people like you who have been drinking the kool aid. Any fool can see that we are in the middle of a civil war in Iraq, even if you watch FOX News. Fox reports the same things that the other national networks report. They may try to shade it to fit a certain Republican way of looking at things, but our soldiers are still dying non the less. If you take the reporters’ bias away and just look at the plain facts, any sane person would conclude we are in a civil war.

I don’t have to use Democrat talking points to see with my own eyes what reality is. No matter how much spin Rove, Bush and Cheney put on it, our soldiers are dying for no good reason and you know it. I’m a former soldier who served for 11 years and I’m nobody’s fool, I know when we are winning or not. I watch C-Span, Fox, CNN, and MSNBC to get a cross section of the news and then I make up my own mind.

I just hate to see a President in denial about our soldier getting kill for nothing. When it was his turn to fight in Viet Nam he and Cheney were afraid and you don’t see him sending his daugthers to Iraq do you? If the President thought the war was that important, he’d ask his daughters to serve their country too. Sitting in a nice clean College dorm room isn’t serving you country. And don’t try to use the excuse that they choose not to go. If that was the case what happens if everyone chose not to go to Iraq, what then?

No my misguided friend it doesn’t take a lead weight or a hit from a bullet in Iraq to convince me what going on here is false bravado with other people’s kid’s blood. I agree with the President that we have to win the War on Terror, but we could lose if it we don’t wake up and start fight the right people and I mean now.

By: Dog_named_Boo

Dog_named_Boo — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:29:07 +0000

Specter: â€˜We Have To Face The Factâ€™ That Iraq Is A Civil War and Politicians are complete morons.