Freedom watch has already started broadcasting commercials, I saw one this morning during the today show, they showed a soldier in a wheelchair with his wife, saying if we quite Iraq the terrorist will win, and he would go back if he could to fight to protect america's liberty. It was a frightengly effective commercial, people who don't read are going to be swayed

that you would recall John Kerry's own inept phrase in an attempt to attempt lambasting the Republicans. And just after you dimissed the idea of Democratic strategies being so lame!

Guess my stategies can be less than perfect, too.

why are the names of these groups so creepy? Freedom's Watch? who are they pandering to? oh, wait...never mind, my bad. As long as we have an election in '08, it's all good. Weird, but good.

Regardless of the success or failure of the surge, or the spin either way, the question is who the hell are all these guys in the Iraqi army and police forces who will eventually have to take over.

I'm sure the anti-American forces have been infiltrating since the start. In fact, that is liable to become their primary startegy as we surge and brag about how it's working.

It's a damn good thing Dubya doesn't have to play one of the Iranian mullahs in a game of chess. It would be embarrassing to all of us.

He was the guy who warned Americans "people have to watch what they say."

Indeed we do.

The administration can trot out anyone they want to try and drill it through our heads that the surge is working, but the only way to know for sure is this:

Order all flags flown at half staff every single day that an American soldier is killed in combat in Iraq. When the people of this country see the American flag at the top of the flagpole on a consistent basis, we're winning.

The big thing with conservatives is this line about Islam being backward and stuck in the 12th century.........But I guarantee that in the private conferences of the Iranian High Priests, they are saying to each other---Can you believe these American goobers?

At this point are dedicated to one thing and one thing only. Delaying for as long as possible the inevitable total domination of Iraq by Iran.

We took sides in the Iraq-Iran bloodbath, where human waves of children and teenagers were sent headlong into enemy positions to exhaust their ammo.

It's sort of like that movie THE SHINING where the cook is telling the kid, sometimes things leave a trace of itself behind.

We are stuck in the trace.

It was a frightengly effective commercial, people who don't read are going to be swayed.

Not sure that's true. To horribly, horribly stereotype, a lot of those "people who don't read" have friends and family members who serve in the military. I suspect some of the reason the red staters are turning against the war is that they're getting tired of having 'their boys' (and girls) coming back dead or mutilated, and that the voices of the real vets they know will be far more effective than the actors on the teevee.

I find it interesting that Ari Fleischer's objective is not to bring peace to Iraq, or even to help the surge to work. It is to convince people that the surge is working. I guess it's easier to perpetuate the illusion of effectiveness than to be effective.

I have no beef with Mitt Romney's sons. They chose not to serve in the armed forces, and that's their decision. Romney should just say that, rather than pretending that his sons are serving America by serving his campaign. It's not just egotism. This notion comes from the common belief among Republicans that they, and only they, are the true Americans.

As we strive for the big win, whatever the fuck that is, in the Middle East let us solemnly recall the last big conservative win--"Ronnie won the cold war".........How many ICBMs are in Russia? How much nuclear material? Isn't Putin pondering the commencement of strategic bomber patrols again?

Joan,

You are a reliable flack for the Democratic Party and a Hillary Clinton shill to boot. Do your thing and let Ari do his. Live and let live.

For many businesses and politicians there's a powerful misconception about marketing.

The correct concept of marketing is simple: have a good product or service and then tell the right people, in the right way about your product or service. Notice I didn't say lie about it, or spin it, or hype it.

Many people think that the marketing process is the product. It's not; the product is the product.

The problem is not that Ari Fleisher is running ads. It is simply the fact that his ads are lies. No amount of lipstick can obscure the fact that a pig is still a pig.