The Iranians are justifiably threatened by the US, with the unecessary Iraq invasion as proof.

The show of missle strength and the talk of nuclear power by Iran is a reaction to a real threat posed by the US and Israel.

Western media and politicians portray Iran as an aggressor, ready to launch attacks at Israel and shipping in the Gulf. Common sense should tell us that the Iranians know they cannot win a major military conflict with the the US, Britain, and Israel.

If we set a timetable for leaving Iraq and open a serious dialogue with Iran (without preconditions) we may see a solution to the problem. Obviously the Bush Administration is not capable of this but the next US president has the opportunity to build trust within the Middle East and this will help with negotiating with Iran.

The Republicans have put the USA in a corner on this issue and John McCain is willing to continue the failed policies of Bush. Obama is our best hope for positive change in the Middle East.

Years of a Republican majority in Congress, a two-term Republican presidency, a Republican Supreme Court have combined to allow this president and the administration to commit crimes and disobey the Constitution.

The so-called free press is corporate-owned, for the most part, and true investigative journalism has diminished. Much of the lawbreaking in Washington is not understood by the average American so Congress is not being pressured to act against the executive branch.

Glenn's reporting is factual and eye-opening but it is still a huge struggle to get anything fixed by the Congress. How to we get our representatives to represent us ?

I fear for the future of America.

that elects a president by a Supreme Court decision, allows an attack on the USA by ignoring reports of possible grave threats, attacks a a country rich in oil under the guise of removing a nonexistent nuclear and biological threat, subverts the rule of law to spy on American citizens, employs a national news organization as a propaganda tool, engages in secret meetings between the oil industry and OPEC, appoints officials with the objective of weakening environmental protections, ignores a predictable financial disaster in the mortgage industry, appoints political cronies to important government posts with the Katrina disaster as one example of the result, and on, and on.

This is the GOP.

People will try anything but they will always revert back to their old habits so here's the answer to the problem:

Learn a lesson from the Europeans. They have lived with sky-high gas prices and their solution has been to drive small, fuel efficient cars.

A small car does not have to be ugly, slow, or unsafe. Racing technology has developed exrememly light, safe and fast cars that are powered with efficient engines.

Why do we need a 300 cubic inch cast iron V8 to power our vehicles? A slight decrease in overall vehicle size (pickups included) will enable the use of smaller engines and, guess what? Small engines use less fuel.

The biggest selling vehicle in the US is (or was) the Ford F150 full size pickup truck and it gets around 12 mpg in city driving. Given the cost of gas, is this nuts or what?

What kind of stupidity makes people buy large, gas guzzlers and then complain about gas prices?

Why does that fool, George Bush, never propose serious conservation as an alternative to drilling for more oil (in order to feed our addiction)? Could it be that he (and most Republicans) are beholden to the energy industry?

Terrorism has grown stronger since 9/11, not weaker. More Americans have died in Iraq than have died in New York. Then add at least 30,000 wounded, and add how many Iraqi civilians killed and wounded?

I cannot conceive of a punishment severe enough for our current Administration and our useless Congress.

This will be the election marketing ploy used by Republicans hoping to distract voters from the real issues.

It's been proven, time and again, that torture does not produce credible intelligence, while ensuring more hatred and hostility towards the USA.

Read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and see if you can understand why America was founded in the first place. Then, try (if you can) to reconcile that with what the Bush Administration is doing in its "war on terror".

Apparently you do not accept what has been universally reported on over the past few years but your rose-colored Republican glasses just may be giving you a false picture of reality.

Stop watching Fox News and try doing your own research instead. Read the first-hand accounts of people that visited and talked to POWs and don't forget about the secret Red Cross report that had been suppressed.

If America cannot live up to its ideals, then it is a failed country.

Please remember the reasons for Bush's invasion of Iraq. Saddam's treatment of the Iraqis people was not one of them.

It's lousy beer.

Nothing is worse than continuing the destructive legacy of Bush.

And McCain's promise to appoint extreme Supreme Court justices will do that.

Amen.

We Americans have degenerated into a bunch of whiners easily placated by incompetent politicians, and fed by a biased and almost useless corporate mass media.

The only in-depth reporting seems to be coming from NPR, and that is only one bright light in a field of dim bulbs.

A laundry list of the Bush Administration's failed performance and constitutional abuses should be published on a daily basis as we approach the Election. By hammering facts into the voters heads perhaps we'll get folks fired up enough to vote the failures out of our government.

I'm disgusted with the performance of the Democratic Congress. As a majority Party they should have been able to engineer a more effective antidote to the poison that is the Bush Administration.