I just puked in my mouth.

Oh, Mr. Snow, that is rich. The only thing the POTUS is on the front lines of these days is the War on Reality.

Call me unpatriotic, but I do hope that reality eventually wins.

If Snow truly believes that tripe, he's insane. If he doesn't, then he's despicable. Take your choice.

Personally, I opt for the latter choice. DESPICABLE.

If the critical phase of the Surge involves Bush reporting for duty on the front lines to provide the quality of leadership that only he can bring, I'd change my mind and be all for it.

As the mother of a US Army soldier who is on the front lines in Iraq, the statement of the president makes me sick and angry. My son is at risk of dying every single day. Bush has never experienced anything remotely like what my son has and does.

No Tony, that's if we STAY. If we LEAVE the amount of killings will be LESS. If we STAY, the number of killings will be MORE.

And for the record, I don't want people to die either, but I didn't send people off to die. The President did that, and all the needless deaths that have happened were because the President, with the help of people like you, MADE IT HAPPEN.

The truth is the President doesn't want to leave because it makes him look like a looser, and how the President LOOKS is more important to him, you, and the entire Republican Party then behaving like decent human beings and getting us the hell out of their. So yes, Tony, you are right. Because of Bush and all of those who help him, many, many more people will be washed away in needless bloodshed.

And the dauphin were at the front daily to see the grisly consequences of his own hubris.

He's the war engineer. Shouldn't he get to be on the front lines too?

Unfortunately, I fear yours is a minority opinion. I wish military personael and their families would wake up as a group as see this fool for what he is, but I'm afraid he still has very strong support amongst that group.

Comment's like Snow's (the administration's really) are nothing more than mockery.

And can there be anyone who doesn't believe he will be remembered as the worst President in US history?

For a while now, I've thought the "I've just thrown-up a little in my mouth" thing was way overused. The first two comments here make my point nicely.

What's really amazing is not one of the people who...err...planned this war ever served in any war. All the biggest blowhard warmongers have never been soldiers.

ChickenHawk Revelation!

There was an even more sick-making coment by Mrs. Bush, that nobody suffers more about Iraq than the President.

Can you imagine being so removed from reality?

You wanna talk nauseating...!

This is Presidency #43 in a nutshell. A non-ending series of photo ops in place of actual governance ("I'm not the President, but I play one on TV!"), while his cronies set about to their real business: Dismantling the US Government, deauthorizing the US Constitution and executing an end-run around Habeus Corpus, maybe the most sacrosant central tenet of modern civilization.

If the United States survives through 1/20/2009 (and I'm beginning to doubt it), we'll spend years fixing the fuck-ups this doofus has allowed to happen. But at least I'm sure that, within 20 years, the true evil of both Bushes AND Reagan will come to light (EVERY High Crime and Misdemeanor); and the reaction will be breathtaking. I hope we're all around to see it.

The biggest surprise to me was that there was at least one reporter (besides Helen Thomas, of course) at the press briefing with some stones. I'd kinda like to know what his/her name is (and can I get a subscription to whatever newspaper or magazine they write for?)!

You always know when Bush or anyone in his administration is about to let fly a stream of bullshit. They preface it with variations on, "You know, what's interesting is..." or "I find it interesting that..." or "It's interesting that you should say...".

I wish just one White House beat reporter would just interrupt Snow and say, "Tony, I really don't give a crap what you may or may not find interesting, just answer the goddamned question for a change."

The presidency is a civilian office, and this is true even in wartime. This is part of the whole civilian control of the military that the Founders saw fit to implement to ensure that military officers did not make grabs for power. For that matter, it also means that presidents hold power over the military by virtue of civilian political structures, and thus can not legitimately use military power to hold onto power (Though Nixon apparently considered it). The Founders were quite wise in this. I point this out because, no matter how much it has been done since Reagan broke the tradition of following the wishes of the Founders in this, it is improper for civilians to salute members of the military, as Bush is shown in the photo. Does this bother anyone else?

Substitute teacher Jack Black forms a rock band out of the class he teaching. The rest of the class is sad because they are in the band. Jack Black then says, "Just because you aren't in the band, doesn't mean you're not *in the band*." Then he assigns the rest of the class jobs such as manager, tailor, roadie, etc.

This is what Snow is saying. Just because Bush isn't in the war doesn't mean he's not *in the war*.

Disregard my previous comment. I just went out to the White House website, specifically, where the press briefings are reproduced (http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/06/20070614-2.html) and unless there's more than one Helen asking questions, my masked reporter was Helen Thomas.

Q The President said in his speech that -- to expect many more casualties. How many more Americans is he willing to sacrifice to keep this war going?

MR. SNOW: You know, what's interesting, Helen, is if you ask the people who are -- if you take a look at what's going on in recruitment right now, the people who are most likely to sign up are the people who are involved in combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I should have realized that if there were TWO reporters with balls I would have known both their names. My bad.