When Hillary Clinton declared she was running for president, this frigging mess was all but inevitable. HRC is the most insincere, phony and ruthless politician the Democratic party has had in generations. She was going to use any trick, deception and ruse to win a battle she had intitially believed would be a cake walk-just like the Iraq invasion she voted so enthusiastically to authorize. When she realized she was in danger of losing the nomination, you just knew she wasn't going to give up and that she was going to either get the nomination playing dirty, or was going to destroy any chance the eventual nominee might have against the Republican nominee, so she can run virtually unopposed in 2012. When Bill Clinton basically declared that McCain and Hillary were the only patriotic candidates running for the presidency, he issued a threat to the Democratic party:nominate Hillary, or we will make sure that John McCain is the next president.

The great tragedy is that people like Ali Fadhil and Sinan Antoon, the two Iraqi intellectuals who spoke so eloquently on the total and tragic failure of the Iraq occupation will never be given an opprtunity to speak out in the establishment corporate media from which almost all Americans get their news. Glenn is correct in his criticism of the imbalance in favor of war supporters in the Charlie Rose perspective, but Rose often invites true war critics(not nearly often enough), while in the MSM, genuine war critics are treated as lepers.

The problem with Charlie Rose and his likes, centrists Democrats who are basically decent and intelligent human beings, is that they are wired in a hopelessly mainstream way. To them, the US government may make mistakes, but it always means well and can never be infested with evil and deadly people, because Americans and America is good and honorable. Watching Charlie Rose's face while he was listening to the two Iraqis talk about the utter devastation of their society and about the US failure and responsibility for the catastroph was very telling, because he obviously couldn't deal with that very ugly truth and was getting angry. A typical Charlie Rose reply to devastating criticism by one of his guests of the US involvement in iraq is usually:"you can't tell me our intentions aren't honorable".

The Clinton camp is telling the Democratic party:either Hillary becomes the nominee, regardless of who gets more delegates, or we'll make sure that McCain is the next president. Well, Hillary has always been a Republican, a wolf in sheep clothings, pick your metaphor. Why wait till August to endorse McCain? Let the Clintons endorse him right now, get it out of the way and run on the Republican ticket, where she really belongs.

In Freddie's mind, there couldn't be a civil war in Iraq, since it's only Iraqis butchering Iraqis. His Glorious Leader doesn't consider Iraqis kiling Iraqis as a civil war either, since the Glorious Surge was supposed to prevent a civil war, and Glorious Leader and little Freddie have already declared the surge a huge success. Glorious leader and John McBush have already declared Iraq a "mission accomplished" and "indisputable success", which is all Freddie needs to know.

Freddie Kagan has denied that the American civil war ever took place. See, since it pitted pro-slavery forces against anti-slavery forces, that doesn't count. It would've been a civil war only if pro-slavery armies fought other pro-slavery armies and anti-slavery armies fought other anti-slavery armies, or is it the other way around? Another example of the neocons changing history. The Iraqi journalist who is still living in Iraq, or trying to in Iraq and who emailed me this morning to let me know his nation is engulfed in a civil war doesn't know what he's talking about- what a relief.

Hell, no. She belongs to the Clinton party and is concerned only with the prospect of the Clinton party capturing the white house. Once she and her husband realized that the Democratic party is refusing to be the vehicle on which the Clinton party rides into the white house, they set about destroying that useless(to them) vehcile. The Clinton party is in no particular hurry. They don't mind waiting till 2012, at which time the economy, military and US standing in the world will be utterly destroyed, and then Clinton party can ride virtually unopposed into the white house as the nation savers. The only obstacle to that trip would be an Obama presidency, a prospect which the Clinton party is determined to obliterate.

KateTex and ShawnWM, the two white supremacists, are such obvious Republican trolls and agent provacuteurs on Salon, I find it astonishing that posters fall for their traps so easily and engage them, which is exactly what they wish to achieve. They want to increase the bitterness between the two camps to a point where as many Democratic voters as possible will not vote for their opponent in November, should their opponent become the nominee. There are thousands of GOP trolls like them on numerous blogs and other on-line forums, whose sole purpose is to decrease Democratic turnout in November. The thing is to completely ingnor them, not help them.

In matters of national security and foreign policy, McCain may be the most extreme, militant and radical "mainstream" politician in US history. There's almost no doubt that with his mentality, had he been president during the Cuban missile crisis, he would've intiated a nuclear war that would've probably destroyed the world. His domestic policies are at best cosmetically less extreme than the Bush/Cheney domestic agenda. Our corporate media is so utterly corrupted, dumb and clueless, that had Hitler been a Republican politician living today, they would've depicted him as a centrist.