While John Kerry advocates for troop withdrawl, I am not certain it is he who actually introduced the ammendment. Knowing it would fail miserably, I think the Republicans wanted to make certain to put his name alongside of it. I hope I am wrong about my facts, because it would mean War Room is playing along.

December 31, 2000 New York Times: “As he prepared to leave office last January, Mr. Bergen (Clinton NSA) met with his successor Condoleeza Rice, and gave her a warning. According to both of them, he said that terrorism- and particularly Mr. bin Laden’s brand of it- would consume more of her time than she had ever imagined."

February 2001 Hart-Rudman report results in a bill introduced to Congress proposing a Homeland Security Agency that would coordinate counter terrorism efforts of FBI, CIA, Border, Customs, etc., but Bush-Cheney opposed and nothing was passed.

July 10, 2001 Phoenix FBI agent informs headquarters that middle eastern students are attending flight school and is concerned about their intentions.

August 6, 2001 Bush receives infamous PDB

August 16, 2001 Zacharias Moussaoui is detained by an INS agent because the flight school instructed Moussaoui stated he wanted to learn to fly an aircraft excluding take off and landing. Minneapolis FBI agent alerts headquarters that a plane could be used as a weapon.

Clinton received a dire terrorism threat in a PDB during his second term. He demanded a daily conference call/briefing from heads of various agencies until they were convinced the given threat was diminished. It was inspiration for Hart-Rudman recommendations.

When Bush received his August 6th PDB, he was beginning the 3rd day of the longest presidential vacation in 32 years. He asked no follow-up question. None. Zero Zilch. He took no action what-so-ever.

And good thing. The result has given him and his cronies everything they wanted in a government. Absolute power courtesy of cowards like justaguy.

She had to ask her the question on same sex marraige because she is going to follow up later with a question about going back to her place for some hot action.

Reporter my arse. She's a "reporter" like Jeff Gannon is a reporter.

I can hear their defense now. Something like: He only said he would run Iraq like Saddam ran it. He didn't say Hussein. That was added by the writer and that's why it's in brackets. He meant Saddam Johnson. A guy Bill grew up with in the hood.

And then anyone who wrote that will be fired by their editor.

In other words, if we hadn't invaded the country everything would be just fine, and the country wouldn't be over-run with terrorists. Maybe Bill O'Reilly is the first right winger to finally realize that while Saddam was a rather brutal dictator, he despised the islamic fundamentalist terrorists because they were a threat to his power, and he was therefore no threat to OUR country. Bill would be absolutely correct in saying that Iraq was less of a threat to OUR country when Saddam is in charge. And since he could not give a rats ass about the citizens of Iraq, then why did we go there in the first place.

So, we went into that country, destabilized it, greatly multiplied the number of terrorists in the region instead of reducing them. When the original justification for war- WMD- was found to be false we changed it- to removing a dictator who brutalized his own people. And now Bill O'Reilly's solution is to further protect those people by "shooting them between the eyes" if they are out on the streets after 7:00 PM.

That is compassionate conservatism there folks.

George broke it, now he owns it. Cheney owns this. Rummy owns this. Hannity owns this. Bill and Ann's shared testicle own it...

I didn't know CBS decided to let Anderson Cooper ride the 60 Minutes bus the rest of the way to Hell.

This is the epitome of network news. Hello Katie, hello Anderson, hello sensationalism, goodbye whatever was left of network journalism.

Only when our response is a timid hushed whisper can they get away with their "liberals don't want us to win the war on terror" crap. We're not afraid of a false threat. We're not afraid of a real threat. We're not afraid to fight a real threat in the most effective way, and we're sure as shit not afraid of questioning the status quo.

Today's conservatives epitomize Roosevelts "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" and the Republicans in power know it and use it.

Ann Coulter claims that liberals pit the likes of Cindy Sheehan and 9/11 wives up against Republicans thinking they are untouchable in terms of a Republican response. First of all, that is complete shit. Second of all, Republicans use issues like terror and war to further their agenda because they think those issues are untouchable. See: unpatriotic, hates America, cut-and-run, etc.

It plays right into the minds of the weak. First of all, they're all already scared of their own shadows to begin with. Second of all, the Republicans have convinced these chicken shits that they are the only people who can protect them from the boogey man. And finally, their cheesey tough guy act provides perfect cover for folks who question their own emotional and physical strength. See: "wanted dead or alive" and Protection of Marraige Act (if I hate gays I must not be gay).

Why are so many afraid of this fight? These are the biggest bunch of chicken shits in the history of our country. And I swear to God I'll e-slap the first person who says "this isn't a fight."