I see that any dissenting opinions or inconvenient facts are promptly deleted from this wonderfully "liberal" blog. So much for leftist pretensions to tolerance and progressivism.

Without any opposing voices of sanity, you have nothing left but a mutual masturbation session.

The unprincipled intellectual laziness exhibited by this site is matched only by its rank hypocrisy.

Enjoy the circle jerk, boys.

Be sure to delete my comments like a good little fascist. Facts and logic are anathema to you brown shirt leftists.

The Bush administration has made its Iraq policy clear from day one. US troops will remain active as long as necessary and no longer.

Anyone that claims otherwise is reality challenged. I understand why you leftists lie to others, but when you start lying to yourselves it's time to check into the mental hospital.

O'RIELLY'S SHOW IS ON THREE TIMES A NIGHT YOU UNMITIGATED IMBECILE! THE BOGUS FIGURES YOU TROTTED OUT DON'T REFLECT THAT. IF YOU ACTUALLY WATCHED HIS SHOW INSTEAD OF COMMENTING ON SOMETHING YOU'RE COMPLETELY IGNORANT OF, YOU'D KNOW THIS. O'RIELLY HAS COMMENTED ON THIS VERY SUBJECT MORE TIMES THAN I CAN COUNT.

You're just sad. Hatred is nothing to base your life on, fool.

Russ,

not even the wildly misleading AP story claimed that "all parties" came to rapprochement. The rump Baathists and Al Qaeda terrorists did not have a seat at the conference table, in any case.

The Iraq government doesn't condone attacks on the US military in any way, shape or form. The Sunni creeps who allegedly claimed they had this right would be arrested if they acted out on their bluster.

You're right about one thing. Bush is bringing this country together, which is why its government doesn't sponsor terrorism.

Scott Shields,

the Iraqi government has not stated that "it's legitimate to kill Americans," nor will it. That unsubstantiated quote is attributed to Sunni "leaders" that attended a "reconciliation conference" in Cairo under the auspices of the Arab League. Just because the President of Iraq and some of its lawmakers attended the conference doesn't mean it was legitimate in any way. It was a conference in another country, not an Iraqi session of congress. Not a single policy decision was made. That would be impossible because a conference in Cairo is not where the laws governing Iraq are set.

It's ridiculous to insinuate that that's the case, which is obviously what the typically tendentious AP story meant to do.

Talk about "dumb" and "weird." You cant even comprehend what you read and you see fit to excoriate another commentator. Your ad hominem insults and projection are standard leftist traits. So is your disassociation from reality.

Leftists employ facts about as often as muslims employ deodorant.

1. 500 tons of uranium found, 1.8 of it enriched. Stockpiles of poison gas unaccounted for. Hundreds of tons of conventional explosives seized. Iraq was chock full of WMD and YOU know it.

2. To deny the jihadis a safe haven and training base. This is the same reason why Afghanistan was first, Iraq was second and Syria/Lebanon and Iran are next on the list. The terrorists will keep coming unless the sick societies that produce them are transformed into productive ones. Bush has spelled this out enough times for even the dullest minds to comprehend.

3. It's already happening. The progress is there for everybody to see, and in your case, foolishly deny. We stay until the job is done, as Cheney says. Iraq will remain a staging ground for regime changes in neighboring islamo-fascist states even after Iraqis are capable of maintaining their own security. All the America-last, self destructive braying in the world wont change that.

In the future don't insult the rest of us by insinuating that you care about US soldiers. Their deaths mean nothing to you other than a ghoulish rallying cry to abandon the Iraqis.

You couldn't have chosen a more unreliable source than Juan Cole. Saddam Hussein is less biased.

Take off your tinfoil hat. The vast majority of Arab Christians in Israel have been murdered by muslims. There are very few of them left. If it weren't for the "dirty Jews," they would all be dead. The majority of Arabs ("Palestinians,") dance in the streets after the murder of every Jew and Christian.

The Arabs have rejected every just settlement offered. Their implacable terrorism has been rewarded with one undeserved concession after another.

You're supporting the terrorist murderers of women and children. The Arabs strap bombs to their own offspring and march them off to murder innocents. They celebrate the death of their own children after collecting blood bounties from Saudi Arabia and the PA. You must be so proud.

You're a degenerate reprobate for championing the cause of vile terrorism.

Please explain how any war in history had a declared "endpoint," other than victory.

Aren't all of these reforms scheduled to take place in 2008? Why aren't the sloth and graft whores in the unions being criticized?

The proletarians are being sacrificed for union greed.