The IRS took in 48 Billion dollars on one day this month. At present spending levels that won't even pay for 6 MONTHS of this war. Not even 6 months! But no matter, Tiberius, we have people like you and John McCain. People who really know how to fight a war and have right on their side! People who will give their all to this administration, sacrifice your children and any others you can find. You guys didn't think much about this the first round, so let's not make that same mistake twice only to bitch about the left not understanding the situation at hand.....Give us numbers!

You and John McCain will need to send 400 thousand kids to do the job right. How much cash do you want to spend on this full on escalation Tiberius? Our present level of 200 MILLION a day barely holds what we have together. A BILLION a day, $365 BILLION a year? Think that will accomplish your goals?

You and John McCain will need to quadruple the number of ground troops to do the job right. A new Draft will take care of that.The draft will be welcome because all social spending will be cut for the war. Without a trust fund or a good lawyer, these kids won't have jobs or prospects so a draft won't be that big a deal.

I can't emphasize this enough Tiberius. We're going to be paying for this with double digit inflation so get your numbers right this time. How much more do you want to finish this war? Triple? Quadruple? Be realistic given the number of casualties that will need medical care. Don't try to pad the bill with an invasion on Iran, keep it in Iraq!

So once again, how much are you, John McCain, and your Republican kind willing to spend so Bush and Cheney can ride in a convertible with their heads held high on Veterans Day? Give a concrete dollar amount and the numbers of American young men and women you are willing to sacrifice to save Son of a Bush's face!

Now the real tough part-let's see if you and John McCain really have the balls to tell the American people, up front before the election, the sacrifice you expect them to make: we need to draft hundreds of thousands of their children over the next couple years, train them and ship them over to Iraq at a cost of a BILLION a day. All unnecessary social programs will be cut and if we can really do it without taxing the 1% richest Americans we will. After all, someone has to be alive to spend the profits.....

And you Republicans say WE on the left are being unreasonable when we say this madness needs to stop now. Stop blaming the left for your woes and really blame those who put us here in the first place with their lies.

Impeach Bush and Cheney! Tax the 1% to pay for this debt and GET US OUT NOW!

So well said.

Defending the pathetic team at the White House with more spin and inaccuracies.

What do our rat bastard President and Vice President care how much violence occurs, how many more people die and suffer for their war? They don't call it a failed war because the Bush and Cheney families, their cronies and investors (I mean 'campaign contributors') are all getting very wealthy off this war. For them it's a great deal!

I just heard that an estimated 40-45 cents out of every war dollar is going to contractors like KBR (Halliburton) and BlackWater. The Carlyle Group in which the Bush Family along with Saudi and Kuwaiti royalty are investors, show their profits are waaaaay up. Why should they want to end the war and their cash cow?

For these people the war has been a remarkable success.

Unfortunately the lowly soldier in the field and thousands of Iraqis struggling to survive can't say the same thing.

And AMEN saintzak!

The Republicans in power can't admit that they let the country get as fucked up as it is without taking responsibility for their actions. That will NEVER happen, especially when they have to raise millions of dollars to get re-elected.

Then there are those Republicans and Democrats who really believe this crock of shit coming out of the White House. They need to be voted out of office but obviously their constituents have bought the crock they were sold and support their representative. Either that or their constituents are running scared and are trying to hold on to what little they have left.

Either way the American people continue to be on the losing side. No one is making any headway with impeachment- it gets shelved as fast as it can be brought up. Congress continues to blow smoke up George Whore Bush's ass instead of taking action to stop him. He's got it made. Why should he budge? If he can stall any action against him long enough, he'll collect a nice pension and a get a bunch of token board memberships to keep his keester afloat. Not to mention getting a big library for fucking up the country and destroying the American middle class.

We need to pressure Congress to enact real, REAL election reform. Take away the influence, force media to furnish free air time to candidates, and most important take away the spin doctors and PR people. That surely will NEVER happen.