"The consequences of failure are catastrophic because
if we come home, bin Laden and Zarqawi, they are going to follow us." Zarqawi is dead

.
"There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through
those neighborhoods, today," he said, when asked to highlight something
positive about what American forces have been able to accomplish in
Iraq.

Did he mean inside the green zone?

Noting that in many of today’s NB posts, the MSM are becoming increasingly strident toward anything Republican - I have a theory.

Everyday,  we are reminded that the MSM (print, networks, cable), are experiencing a steady decline in reader-ship, viewer-ship, and advertisers with no end in sight. In other words - their ships are sinking because they have hit an iceberg called - irrelevancy.

With their traditional viewers leaving, they  are now finding it necessary to pander to what they perceive as their liberal base of viewers in order to stay alive. Hence, the increased stridency.  

This, however, will not work, because as we all know, liberals are a fickle bunch, having no center, and marching off to any drummer that happens to be passing at the time.  

You also must remember, that liberals have no problem in using others. But, when it comes to they themselves being used, it’s a different story.

RE: Interview with Sen. McCain

Mr. Roberts, When John Robert's party was in charge...

.. your question to the Senator today, "Your party was in charge during that time. How did you let it happen?"

Attempting to think of a fair question to compare, there are so many. OK, understanding that the broad stock market crash (much of it was historic, in scope) beginning in March of 2000, and the immense economic fallout from it. If you are questioning my view, check with the very left leaning economist Dean Baker (well respected, and sought after by the liberal media) of CEPR.

Immediately following, and because of the crash, and the fallout from it, millions of Americans lost their jobs, their health insurance (including their coverage for cancer treatment), their children's college education funds, their own retirement funds, and the federal budget (with the states in tow) went massively back into deficits. Most - most - most - of the shift from projected surplus to actual deficits in 2001, 2002, 2002, 2003 and forward came from the economic reversal - not from the tax cuts and/or the war costs. In 2003, even leftist Rep. Bernie Sanders, in slamming Bush, noted that some 18% of the $454 billion deficit (that implies the rest was not) was because of Bush. And on and on.

Next time - in fact every time - you have Pres. Clinton on, or a leading Democrat, ask them -- "Your party was in charge during that time, when millions of Americans lost it all; Dean Baker said it was the worst financial leadership since the days of Herbert Hoover (I kid you not); and corporate and accounting fraud was the game in town - How did you let it happen?"

Come on Mr. Roberts. You claim to be a fair reporter - dig in and ask the big question. You want to hold someone accountable - hold 'em all accountable.

As if the ONLY way cancer can be cured is through government spending...

"HAV3 TH3 BRIDG3S OF INSANITY B33N CROSS3D AND FOR3V3R R3TRACT3D???."  - Meshuggah, "3ntrapm3nt", from Catch Thirty Thr33 (2005)