You call it, "The war that won't end," as in the Nixonian, "Mistakes were made." That pesky war, it just won't end.

How about: The American public gave control of both houses of Congress to the Democrats in 2006, and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have been funding the wars and running the wars since then.

Now Obama is president and he wants to escalate the war in Afgahnistan; while news stories came out in the past couple of days pointing out that when you take account of paid mercenaries, U.S. forces in Iraq have INCREASED since the "drawdown."

Salon you are in denial. The Dems run the war and you won't call them on it. The wasr just won't end themselves, not with TWO political parties in favor of them.

Moderate Demss, anti-war Dems, and Obama-voting independents are sickened by Obama's escalation of the war in Afghanistan, his caving to the right in continuing to cover up Bush-era war crimes, his massive transfer of wealth from taxpayers to politically-connected bankers, his takeover of General Motors ... and that's BEFORE his total bungling of health care reform.

But in your worldview anyone who mentions these things is a racist. Shame on you.

Nancy Pelosi sheds tears over the incivility in our national political dialog? That's hilarious. It was Pelosi who characterize those who disagree with her political ideas as un-American. That was and still is a dispicable slur on the legion of independents, such as myself; many of whom are strongly against the war(s) and who were sickened by the conduct of the Bush administration and who voted for Obama in the hope -- you know, the "Hope" we were promised -- that things would "Change."

Obama has now escalated the war in Afghanistan. A news story came out last week that we now have MORE people in Iraq than before, if you count the mercenaries. Obama has extended the provisions of the PATRIOT act. He is proposing to blow up the Federal budget, leading to a weakening of the dollar that will affect the living standard of every American for years to come.

Yet if I point these things out, and if I oppose them -- if I oppose the wars, the lying, the spying, the spending -- then I am un-American? And according to Joan Walsh and Jimmy Carter, I'm a racist too?

People will not stand for this level of political smearing, even from the left, who believe (quite falsely) that they have a monopoly on "caring." The left currently has a monopoly on hatemongering, smearing, and lying about their political opponents. And most of the country knows it.

No wait, that was Salon. Nevermind.

Does nobody in power read the papers? The USSR tried the same thing in the 80's and walked out in humiliating defeat. At the time Afghanistan was called the Soviet Union's Vietnam. A few years later the Soviet Union went out of business. Does nobody know this? Is Obama this big a fool? Is he going to stand up to the generals? Not Obama. He's a conciliator, not a leader. He'll escalate. You watch.

This is the same kind of deal. Obama's about to drive the country off a cliff in Afghanistan. I'm sure the next time we bomb a wedding party over there the people will feel peaceful.

The very best that can possibly come from this is that he'll find the spine to stand up to the warmongering generals on Afghanistan.

And reductions in Medicare. This is reform? How, exactly? Tell me how anyone gets health care from this.

You tell me.

The U.S. began with a tax revolt against a distant, arrogant government.

It can only be jealousy. What else explains the obsession? It goes way beyond simple differences of policy or even personality.

It's a smokescreen. He can't deliver on the issues he was elected on so he's picking a fight with the media.

Subject says it all.

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The left's hysteria over Palin says more about the left than it does about Palin. And finally, Joan Walsh is starting to get it. It's not about whether Palin's smart or well-read or agrees with the left's policy positions. It's about the ugliness of the left's reaction to her ever since her nomination for VP.

Palin sure gets Joan Walsh's attention, as if we didn't already know. Hey Joan, how many innocent Afghanis did Obama kill today?

When did escalating the war in Afghanistan while starting a new one in Pakistan become "centrist?" Face it Joan, Obama is Bush's 3rd term.

Is anyone on the left even aware of that? Obama believes marriage is between a man and a woman, and he said so on the campaign trail.

When Bush was proposing immunity for telcos engaged in illegal spying on Americans at the behest of the government, Olbermann delivered one of his patented ten minute anti-Bush Special Comment rants. When Obama, after first saying he'd filibuster telco immunity, ended up voting in favor of the bill, Olbermann said it was some kind of deep strategy for prosecuting Bush later. Right Keith. That was the day I gave up on Olbermann. He's only against Bush, he's not against the exact same policies and behavior when Democrats do it.

that Obama is Bush's 3rd term. Must I enumerate? Telecomm immunity (said he'd filibuster it, instead voted for it); covering up the torture photos; failing to prosecute torture -- hell, failing to even END it as far as we know; failing to hold Blackwater accountable for crimes; letting Hillary and the neocons whip up a frenzy for war with Iran; starting another undeclared (and mostly unreported) war in Pakistan ... these are just off the top of my head, there's plenty more.

Who supports this guy? And why? He's got cute kids? He's articulate? What of it? His policies suck!

I doubt this guy ever read a word of Lew Rockwell's Liberartarian site: "Anti-state, anti-war, pro-market."