Sure screw up the war for years doesn't mean taking responsbility. Yes America will get tired of the repub assholes

Seems to think it's more important that the US be able to recorfd this one in the 'win' column than to end the needless loss of life.

something that has been hopelessly mismanaged since the beginning. It's time for serious push-back on the use of "micromanage" by the Bushies and to simply point out that Congress is trying to put in the first real management for this effort.

If you think it's so important that this war not be lost, why don't you do something to WIN it? And why haven't you done something in the last four years to do so?

The good senator has already tried to micromanage another conflict, and didn't have ANY apparent qualms about it back then. He decried Bill Clinton's bombing strategy in Kosovo (former Yugoslavia) without a second thought. Sure smells like hypocrisy to ME!

Senator Mitch McConnell, CNN TALKBACK LIVE 15:00 pm ET, March 25, 1999: "I don't think we can put American troops on the ground in there to fight the war for someone else."

Incidentally, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives also chimed in back then with their opposition to Clinton's military tactics (micromanagement, anyone?) as described in this passage I stole from a Center for American Progress paper on Congressional war powers:

"On April 28, 1999, with U.S. troops already in combat, the House approved, 249-to-180, a bill to prohibit funds from being used for the deployment of U.S. ground forces in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia unless that deployment was specifically authorized by law."

Huh -- what a thought! Congress exerting influence on a President's war strategy. Nope, we can't do that now. NOW, we have a Democratic Congress and a Republican President. THEN, we had a Republican Congress and a Democratic President.

Any fool can see the difference. (So I'm waiting patiently to hear from some fool who can explain it to ME!)

Keep in mind that Mitch is up for re-election next year, and he's in the weakest position he's ever been in.

He's caught in a real bind, because so far his polling numbers in Kentucky are slightly higher than Smirky's, but are bound to fall the more he props up this naked emperor.

But as Senate minority leader, he can't afford to back away enough to satisfy the voters.

To add to his troubles, his hand-picked challenger to former Mitch mentee Gov. Ernie Fletcher is about to lose big to Ernie in the Gubernatorial primary on May 22.

When that happens, a whole bunch of Kentucky republicans who now march to Mitch's tune are going to be scrambling to get away from the powerful stench of a loser.

Kentucky republicans will never vote for a democrat running against Mitch, but they will withhold their money, their ground work and possibly even their votes.

All of this Mitch has to constantly recalculate every time he opens his mouth.

Listen - he's going to get more incoherent the closer we get to November '08.

We already know the future talking points of the Republican party:

1. George W. Bush wasn't a *real* conservative.

2. The Democrats caused us to lose the war in Iraq

It's NOT "micromanaging"!!!!!! Stop calling it that already!

Making large-scale decisions about the course of an entire project is NOT micromanaging; it's the OPPOSITE.

If Democrats shy away from showing leadership and taking ownership of this mess because they're afraid their political party will be blamed for "failure in Iraq," then to hell with the Democrats. I've been operating under the assumption that Americans voted the way they did last November because they felt it was high time to put grown-ups back in charge in Washington. Grown-ups and *leaders* take responsibility for things, even things that aren't their fault.

Please, Democrats, our country is crying out for leadership. Take Dubya's toys away from him. Take Iraq from him. Own it.

The whole store was broken because the same thugs kept coming back and we didn't have enough security guards to stop them. They stole or broke everything. Now the store is closed and everyone is out of work.

Bush & Co. and their enablers had four years to conquer an 8th rate power and couldn't do it with the best trained and best equipped army in the world. Over 3,000 US troops have died and anywhere from 68,000 to 100,000 Iraqis are dead. Shame on us all for allowing this to happen.

Tell Mitch and George and Dick and the other neocons if they think the surge can still work, they can ride in the lead Humvee. Otherwise, it's time for some adults to take over. Make a deal with the insurgents, Iranians and Syrians and get out.

"It's [the] old Pottery Barn rule: If you break it, you buy it," McConnell explained.

By invoking the same explanation Colin Powell used when describing the consequences of an invasion Sen. McConnell proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that he has absolutely no sense of irony.

Mitch Mc Connell is mistaken. It is George Bush and his cohorts who started this misgotten war and have pursued it with such mulish obstinancy and incompetencein the face of all evidence that their policies have tragically failed. No matter what happens from this point Iraq will ALWAYS AND FOREVER be George Bush's war.

EF the GOP asswipes. Through their lying, mismanagement, profiteering and stupidity these republican f*cktards have created a major league mess on par with few others and have perp'ed huge untold human suffering and that's all they can say?

Someone should kick Uncle Mitch in the groin and romper-stomper him because logic and reason obviously don't work.

They took the country into the dumbest war ever conceived. A war with no justifyable foundation, nothing to be gained from it, no positive outcome possible. They are psychopaths in the truest sense of the word. Every educated and experienced person warned that this is where we would be if we attacked Iraq, and they have been proven right. Republicans, and Bush have been proven wrong.

Like rabid dogs backed into a corner, they will grasp at every single means of attack they can think of to save themselves. There is no reason or logic in their statements. They will attack and blame, attack and blame, attack and blame with any argument they think might be believed by people not paying attention.

Tyrants never last. In the end they always fall. If there is one thing the Democratic party must keep in mind during these next years, it is this: Do not fear them, stand up to them, and eventually they will vanish like vapor.