Former Defense Policy Board Chairman Richard Perle called former CIA Director George Tenet "sloppy by nature" and criticized his new book At the Center of the Storm. It's an interesting situation because neither man has much credibility with the public. Perle and the neo-cons have gone after every administration defector for years now, while Tenet is obviously trying to stir up buzz to increase his book sales. My question for Tenet is "where were you a year ago? Two years ago? Three years ago?" If he really believed that the Bush administration did such a terrible job in the lead up to war, then why didn't he say anything before it became politically popular and his book came out?

Iraq is like Vietnam, we could bomb every single city to ash and we still would not win. The notion that we can continue to point guns in their faces until they love us is an illustration which is costing our nation untold billions.

Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday war in Iraq. Happy birthday to you!
and many more? God lets hope not. aw memories... Remember, we originally invaded Iraq as self defense, to stop Saddam Hussein from developing and using WMDs.

Remember, that after it became blatantly obvious that Hussein had none of these weapons, our reasoning for being in Iraq instantly morphed to a selfless act of kindness towards the Iraqi people, liberating them from the evil Hussein and bringing them the gift of American democracy.

Hmmm, maybe its just me, but I can't see Bush, Cheney or Karl Rove staying up long nights worrying about the poor oppressed people of the world. If they did, the administration would have done something about Darfur, and they wouldn't be such close buddies with the oppressive Saudi government.

This war was started by a lie, and is now justified by a new lie. And yet, if the administration has their way, we will continue to fight in Iraq till Bush leaves office.

Americans overwhelmingly want us to get out of Iraq. Iraqis overwhelmingly want us to leave. The United States Congress has passed a bill that calls for withdrawal. Bush and the administration are unwilling to listen to the will's of the American people, Congress, and the people of Iraq. Luckily for the Bush administration there can be no direct vote on the matter, if there was, both Americans and Iraqis would vote for us to leave. At which point we would have truly got, Democracy.

Lewis Black on the good news from Iraq.

It is often suggested by the right-wing supporters of this war (a war that has cost almost half a trillion dollars, 3,200 American lives, and at least 59,000 Iraqi lives) that we are fighting them over there, so we don't have to fight them here at home.  That somehow if we left Iraq, the terrorists would follow us back. This is laughable.

First of all, how would they follow us? Would they sneak a ride on a cargo ship? or a magic carpet perhaps? I think not. Also, the Iraq war has been a wonderful thing for Al-Qaeda. Because of it, they are getting more recruits and power than ever before. In fact I would say they are fighting us over there, so that they don't have to come here. Attacking the United States is not an easy thing to do.

We have placed over 140,000, Americans in Iraq, where terrorists can target Americans with relative ease. We aren't only making it easier for terrorist to attack Americans abroad, but if they ever, god forbid, manage to pull off a large scale attack on the United States, who would defend us here? We have sent a major percentage of the national guard to Iraq!

So to recap, the war makes it easier for terrorists to attack Americans, strengthens terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda, and makes us less prepared for an attack at home. But hey, at least Halliburton is making record profits.

The once prominent anti-war youth movement Students for a Democratic Society is back. The organization held the very first protest against the Vietnam War in Washington D.C., in April 1965. It has now been brought back to protest the war in Iraq, by two frustrated high school students and a former member now in his late 60s. The complete story of SDS's return was described in detail in this AlterNet article.

I'm not surprised that a well known organization from the Vietnam era has returned to protest Iraq, considering the many parallels between the two conflicts. Obviously the Iraq war is a lot more complicated with so many religious sects and regional powers involved. But, the core argument that Neo-cons spout in favor of prolonging the madness is virtually the same argument used during Vietnam. They claim that if we pull out now the Iraq will fall into complete chaos, which will spread throughout the entire region and threaten America. Of course there is some truth to that, if we pull now Iraq will fall into a worse civil war than its already in right now (a terrible situation that they have put us in). However, the doomsday scenarios are blown way out of proportion. On January 28, 2007, the San Francisco Chronicle published an article titled "Doubt cast on Dire exit scenarios", one of the most important and unnoticed MSM (main stream media) articles written this year. The article casts serious doubt on the Neo-Con's rhetoric about Saudi and Iranian involvement in wake of a hypothetical pullout.