Is anyone asking about whose nickel funded this and any of Cheney's other blood "sports"? Did American taxpayers pay for Cheney and any of his companions to fly to Texas for the "hunt?" How often does he take shooting trips? Does taking the ambassador to Switzerland with him to Texas make his trip a foreign policy meeting? Dare we call it gunboat diplomacy?

It is absolutely clear that the voting public needs to clean house in November - including the Democratic enablers who supported Bush's rush to Baghdad.

Yes! I may get to open that bottle of champagne that's been waiting for some good news for a long time.

Just last night, I was wondering how soon the rats would start leaving the ship. With Bush's naked emperor's body coming into Americans' sights, it seemed likely that the exodus would begin before years 7.5 and 8. If Norton gets some comeuppance for corruption, all the better. Hope it helps scuttle the revived push to open ANWR and ill-advised sales of Federal lands, too.

I found the vitriolic comments by Joseph Smith extremely disturbing. The rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are not reserved for Americans. The continuous linking of Iraq and 9/11 by G. W. and Dick is a big fat lie.

The collateral damage of the Bush Doctrine includes the tens or hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives, the unimaginable number who have been wounded and/or maimed, the loss of quality of life due to energy and potable water shortages, disruption of society - schools, transportation, basic safety - the introduction of a vast criminal enterprise that kidnaps large numbers of individuals, the theft of childhood from perhaps a generation of Iraqi children, the displacement of people from homes and neighborhoods from the rise of sectarian violence, unemployment and a brain drain...the list for Iraq alone goes on and on.

Neighboring countries are absorbing refugees and are threatened by a conflict that may spread across borders.

The Iraqi people, who can't send their kids out to play, did not threaten America. WE did it! The U.S. attacked a sovereign nation from a scaffold of lies.

How long will it be before there are more dead American soldiers from OUR war than there were 9/11 victims? How many young men and women from the U.S. will never hold their children, watch them take first steps, attend their high school graduations? How many technological advancements won't be invented, songs or books not written, people not comforted in times of need because G. W. and Company wanted to start a war, with other people's kids as the pieces on the board?

How many generations before the U.S. regains the world's respect in the areas of human rights, defense of liberties, speaking the truth?

Flattening an Iraqi child with a tank in his own garden won't bring a single New Yorker back to life. He's just unrelated collateral damage.

At this point, who cares? Can we fast-forward through the next 999 days, please?

John McCain was quoted by the NYT as telling the students of Liberty University why he supports Iraqmire:

"I stand that ground not to chase vainglorious dreams of empire; not for a noxious sense of racial superiority over a subject people; not for cheap oil," he said. "I stand that ground because I believed, rightly or wrongly, that my country's interests and values required it."

Reporters should be asking him to define what "interests and values" required the invasion of a sovereign nation that posed no real risk to America, as well as the trampling of international law and conventions on human rights. He chose to follow a criminal policy of the Bush administration but there's no "beef" to his explanation why.

Perhaps we should all be writing letters to the editors of the MSM pointing out that if the Republicans are using fear of impeachment as a campaign rallying point, they are admitting that GWB has committed impeachable offenses. So it's their duty to start the proceedings themselves - now.

And now we've segued from a Spanish-speaking president into one who speaks "fractured Spanglish." Before the national anthem story, we were led to believe that the guy had ONE skill, anyway.

Hillary Clinton does not follow any particular principles or convictions, other than the need to get votes. I will not vote for an unprincipled person. I will also not vote for anyone who gave the Bush administration the authorization to declare war, to invade a country, to decide for several million people what political system they will have, to decide that X number of that country's citizens could be sacrificed for a U.S.-defined destiny for the country.

It's understandable that Hillary doesn't want to be able to be accused of flip-flopping or political expediency by pushing for a pullout of American troops from Iraq. However, people have died, been tortured, the U.S. has been mired in the international mud, for hers and others "miscalculation."

Tough luck, Hillary. We need representatives with vision, real compassion, and decency.

Russ Feingold gets my support.