If Rove, Libby, perhaps even Cheney, Delay and Frist are all indicted and found guilty and sentenced, they will be

pardoned by Bush.

The War Room is on my homepage, and I read it several times a day. It's heartwarming to see that so many people think and feel the same way I do. The comments are as interesting as the articles!

you're on my front page with your war room...way up there at the top with non sequitur....not bad company & like good companions you keep growing & evolving with events & time

...vagabonds like me need cyberrefugios

My kids and grandkids can't make any sense out of what they are seeing on TV. Two weeks ago all the news outlets were sucking up to Bush and Company with the usually cleverly told lies that have gone on since the beginning of the Iraq War and through Bush re-election. Now, almost all of a sudden, some sense of the truth is breaking through with entirety of CNN and MSNBC acting like junior Edward R. Murrows.

We have long excoriated Bush and the social pattern he has validated and imprinted on all of us on our website, www.matrix-evolutions.com. Our sense in it has been that the corporate controlled media is as big a part of the game as the one the street police state that it supports informationally. Now what gives? Our first sense is that some at the top are writhing in pain from the fallout of a war led by 11 year old amateurs that threatens to bring their empire down and that what we are watching is one pack opf nasty dogs split in two and quarreling in a way that promises to have one of them bleeding on the deck soon.

The big question is which one? And what's the fallout for all of us two steps down from the big fight, a chance for some resurrgence of a liberty that left town years ago or the need to big up a fast ticket to Vancouver?

I don't know what to tell the kids and grandkids. We are holding our breath that the struggle of people who can still enjoy the feel of the morning is being joined by some real power at the top, corporate media. But our bags are packed too and we are ready to go once we here the media boys and ladies change their tone with as sharp a right turn in the next month or two as they did against the Bush administration in the last week or two.

Or maybe one of you smarter one's at the War room can provide an analysis or prediction that allow us to buy our tickets a week or two ahead of time and save some money on the deal.

ruthgraf@matrix-evolutions.com

Thanks Tim & Co. for the changes to the War Room, including letting readers add comments. The War Room is one of my must-read areas at least once a day, particular in this winter of our discontent. Thanks for keeping this liberal/progressive warm and informed during these chilly times.

Very cool to have this Comments Feature. The interactivity makes the War Room truly part of the noosphere or, loosely, the world brain via Teillhard de Chardin.

It's about 2:29 pst & I'm on tenter hooks. Do I dare to go to sleep? Suppose I don't check CNN every hour & Karlsputin gets indicted & I didn't hear it live? I saw Jack Ruby shoot Oswald live after Jack Kennedy was shot down on my 19th birthday.

Flayed as I was then, nothing between then and now prepared me for the brilliant seething cobra-venom menace of the malevolent guy who looks like Santa Claus' aw-shucks nephew. The damage to our sweet future is concussive.

The fate of the Pretty Planet is in unusual flux tonight under a Taurus gibbous moon. Has hubris dented demented KarlBoy, the serial rapist of reputations? Going after people's families is Karl's lifelong ugly m.o. "Cross me and you really pay." .. .. .. As we can't we hear the astonishing furnaces of photosynthesis enchantingly alchemming sunlight into apples, we can't quite hear what plot Fat E is sending us from the future, though like the calm before the storm, we can feel that something this way comes.

I decided to post a comment to try out the feature. I might not be doing this right and would like to know right away. Here goes.

War Room is one of my favorite places on the internet. Thanks for making it better.

I'm glad that you now have comments. If I could, I'd like to add a ditto to the previous suggestion that the number of comments be listed on the parent post.

Great use of CSS, Maybe as an aside, away from the schadenfreude of politics, you could keep those of us interested in this level of design updated/ informed about what you are up to. Given Salon's article the other day, bandwidth uber alles.

It would be helpful if the listing for "Read Comments" told you how many comments had been posted (and perhaps how many had been selected as Editors' Selections). Nothing so frustrating as clicking a link only to find no content - or no new content - behind it.

Thank you for the new comment system.

I recommend at least displaying the number of comments made so far by the option to read comments. Perhaps a subtotal for "Editor's Choice" comments could also be included. Also, it would be nice to have the system keep track of which comments have been made since a given logged-in reader last read the comments; it's a feature common to virtually all forums.

These features would enable us to more easily keep up with new user-generated content. In the old system, it was very easy to keep track of which letters I'd read since it was essentially part of the article-publishing system.

That should help keep the trolls to a minumum.

I don't know where you were last week, but your absence coincided with the lapse of my Premium subscription. Nothing against whoever was manning the War Room for you, but the slow trickle of new posts during an extremely busy Plamegate week was almost enough to cause me not to renew. But I quickly got over it.

Good to see you back!