The notion that Iran (or Saddam, or the Taleban, or Chavez or whomever, perhaps save Kim Jung-il) is always suspect as soon as belt-way muppets like Blitzer start going off on why we require a military solution to their (i.e. Iran's) "problems" goes beyond ludicrous.

Glenn, you rebutted an amazingly ignorant commentator in fine fashion. Your debating skills and writing style remind me why I believe debate and critical thinking should be compulsory subjects in high school. We can no longer, as "leaders" of the free world and as the "bastion" of democracy, continue to have such an uninformed, sop-like populace as demonstrated by La.Sota. Extreme ignorance like his is incredibly dangerous, particularly in light of the hawkish defense department Obama has allowed to continue to roost since the Bush regime exited extreme stage right.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I mean, if it looks ok on the outside, then the same probably goes for the inside. This is a military built by the same idiots who used 9/11 as an excuse to re-arm America regardless of any of the consequences - financial, political, physical, mental, etc.

What happened after Vietnam? Same damn thing. Remember that Vietnam vet in San Ysidro, CF, who gunned down 25 people in a McDonald's back in 1982. He had also been seeking psychological help for himself after the war but never got any. It's gonna happen again and again and again and again and...

Because when it comes to digging up dirt and slinging it, the Republicans will go to whatever lengths necessary, JaaZee - and you damn well know this, you moron - to dig dirt.

The fact that AP did what they did might just be a sign that the press corps in our country are getting their groove back and not sycophantically publishing whatever is written by the likes of Palin and other neo-con Republican losers like her as fact.

Americans have oompletely fallen asleep to the harm being done by self-serving politicians because our media ignored their duty to report the facts. It's high time we had more people like Woodward getting at the truth, or at least juxtaposing fact with fiction.

She's gearing up for a run at the White House in just a few years' time. I hope Palin chokes on her own lies and the public gags at the thought of George W Bush with lipstick running this country even further into the ground. Let the facts roll.

What a post-coitus bed-smear of a hack radio shock jockey. Too bad you didn't know you were going to do a phone interview with a muppet. My condolences to you for having had to put up with such horse shit.

In any other country, the other side is listened to so that an informed debate can take place which brings the entire listening audience to a greater awareness of the issues at hand. Does it help anyone that Ingraham wants to polarize this debate? Not a lick. Does it help breed intolerance, more hatred, less understanding? You bet it does. And that helps us, in this incredibly divided, racially segmented and hate-filled country we live how?????

Keep on spewing hate and dementing the forces of reason, Ingraham. God bless your twisted, fucked up version of America that's falling apart at the seams.

Word.

I would like to know if any of the pro-bigotry responders here have ever traveled to a Muslim country or befriended anyone there. My guess? None have.

Bigotry, xenophobia and racism are borne out of ignorance. I grew up like many Americans in a racially integrated school. We had the children of boat people from Vietnam, Turks escaping poverty and violence in the eastern half of Anatolia, even Natives where I lived; in high school and in college I met and became friends with Jews despite having been raised as a Catholic in a deeply conservative family. Ironically, some of my ancestors are Jews from Eastern Europe.

My travels have taken me across the world, including to Egypt immediately after 9/11 and you know what? They're just like you and me - every last one of us. The problem is with whacked out priests, popes, ministers and imams who preach blind faith and adherence to dogma instead of understanding, compassion and kindness. Each and every time I've reached out to people of different faiths or different creeds, my faith in humanity was rewarded with politeness, respect and admiration simply because I was willing to go beyond the color bar and embrace them as fellow human beings.

The mixing of many faiths in western society is a good thing. It encourages, if not demands, tolerance and acceptance. We need to all try a lot harder to, as Rodney King once said, to all get along. It is incredibly myopic and stupid - not just ignorant - to try to pretend that we're not all alike. The recent violence in the Middle East and in America is the product of poverty, isolation and hate created by the likes of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney - hate-spewing, single-minded zealots. Spreading further hate and creating greater isolation reminds me of what many Christians, as these men profess themselves to be, know too well: You shall reap what you have sown.

I fully respect anyone regardless of their religious beliefs, be they Hindu, Buddhist, animist or what have you. For those with monotheistic beliefs, whether Jew, Christian or Muslim, let's not forget that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is one and the same. How's that for a dividing line in this whole debate?! I might have been raised a Catholic, but Pope Benedict is no leader of the Catholic Church or any other, for that matter. He should be loudly condemned as should any imam who preaches the same kind of divisive garbage.