Why when are party is asked what we would do different in the Iraq war don't they ever point out that our relations with key allies are damaged so bad by the Bush administrations ignorance and arrogance.

If we ever expect to suceed on the war on terror or fix Bush's mess up in Iraq we need to repair relations with our strong allies that we usEd to have.

I think that Bush has damaged these relations so bad that He is not the one who can do it,our forgien relations and building enough allies depends on Bush leaving office and the democrats taking back congress.

REMEMBER DOWNING STREET!

Saudi Arabia is the central front in the War On Terror.
Mississippi is the central front in the War On Poverty.

Bush has been wrong about everything with respect to Iraq. Why does he have any credibility at all? It galls me that Democrats are not dismissive of his statements at every turn (as Republicans are every time President Clinton makes a statement). Why can't the Democrats have a united message each time Bush comments incorrectly on an important issue?

DNC Hispanic Caucus Chair gives $10,500 to Republicans!!

What is going on when a senior official is giving money to Republican candidates?

Please copy and paste the following link to read a letter concerning this issue.

http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/YPQaRb8tY_k7AnrYr8oNtB8oDAKh_dtEVrU10u7a1obXnKfjX1aTRUmVU6qdTbixx7HdipLXCZErIplLFhYaOMCTMRVKvIfy/Alvaro%20Letter.pdf

Please write Chairman Dean and ask to have this issue addressed!!! I don't know how he can allow this to happen...

It should be crystal clear by now that most of Bush's fanatical supporters could never, ever, no matter what, find any reason to fault any of his actions. Are they totally blind of simply incapable of seeing truth? They are somehow convinced that democrats are evil and that Bush is a hero. Mass hallucinations? What a mystery!

It should be crystal clear by now that most of Bush's fanatical supporters could never, ever, no matter what, find any reason to fault any of his actions. Are they totally blind of simply incapable of seeing truth? They are somehow convinced that democrats are evil and that Bush is a hero. Mass hallucinations? What a mystery!

Democrats.org has a post called "Of Course He Does" that's worth checking out...

Bush and the NeoCons are cowards! They denounce the insurgents for using innocent Iraqi civilians as human shields, yet their whole argument for staying the course in Iraq is to keep the bad guys from getting to America. Aren't we using the Iraqis as human shields? Are their lives less important to this administration? 3,000 Americans die in an attack the government should have and could have prevented, yet 6,000 Iraqis died last month and they don't give a damn!

Dear Democratic Party, including, Bill Clinton, Howard Dean, Chuck Schumer & Rahm Emanuel:

Yesterday, I received ANOTHER fund-raising e-mail, this time, from J.B. Poersch, the Party’s Executive Director.

Meanwhile, the mainstream media, aka, ABC News and others, has the Democratic Party rolling over and playing dead on opposition to Bush’s torture bill.

What in holy hell’s wrong with you?????

History will not judge the Democratic Party kindly, if you don’t wake up, TODAY, and begin to fight Bush’s torture bill.

McCain gave up the fight only because he was jeopardizing his intended 2008 Presidential run. He may nevertheless join you in filibustering the bill.

Torture is torture, and nothing that President Bush says or does takes that away. Fighting terrorists is no different than fighting the Nazis in WWII, or the Communists during the Cold War. Terrorists may not be “associated” with a formal state, but, nonetheless, they are human beings, and, as human beings, are entitled to minimum standards of dignity, as defined by the Geneva Conventions. 65 percent of Americans agree with me on this.

Yet, the Democrats are prepared to roll over and play dead on the torture bill, despite the overwhelming public support for the proposition that “Americans don’t torture.”

I will donate $100 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, if and only if, the Democrats successfully filibuster the torture bill.

Just as in 2002, Karl Rove has the Democrats right where he wants them: pretending to be “as tough on terror” as the Republicans, by voting in lock step with the Republicans, no matter what the consequences of that vote. Look at the consequences of the 2002 vote on giving Pres. Bush authority to fight the War in Iraq: a deadly, costly, fatally flawed Iraq War. Yet, the public voted to make even more of Congress Republican.

The same thing will happen this year, DESPITE the dismal polling of the Republicans. Pres. Bush fully intends to make a show of the signing of the torture bill, right before the elections, which will again bring the “war on terror” front and center.

The Democratic Party’s future depends on the filibuster of the torture bill. I will not continue to support a party that does not support the majority of Americans.

John Farbstein
Belmont, California

Bill Clinton should not be the only democrate to fight back. We should quit taking the right wing crap. Attach Rush, Attach Bill O'Reilly, Attack FOX. Attack the Republican congress and Republican Governors and mostly Bush, Cheney, Haliburton, Rove.

The war is stupid. It is the same crap we heard from Nixon in Vietnam. Peace with Honor, stay the course. If it is just why isn't JEB Bush's son over there?

Don't let them tell their lies and not attack back. Told often enough a lie becomes the truth. Stop Rush, Bush, and the Republican lie machine.

Nobody in their right mind can believe surrogate president Cheney or weird Rumsfeld. We have a V.P. that flunked out of Harvard after one year, and we have Bush who was warned by Yale admissions to interview elsewhere because he might not be accepted due to his low high school average. Bush was accepted on a legacy acceptance basis. ( read: The Chosen)To this day he can't construct a decent sentence. Too, Cheney hid behind his Mom's panties when notified four times that he would be inducted into service. This hero never served.

Here Here, DCochran! I've been wondering this myself for a very long time. It's hard to believe that five years ago, the cover of the French newspaper La Monde read "We Are All Americans Now". Thanks to our president, who admittedly has NO interest in foreign affairs, we have lost perhaps the ONE true opportunity to bring the world together and form allies that we could not have even imagined prior. We had the backing of (almost)the entire world after 9/11 and now we have more enemies than ever before. It's appalling. THIS is what THIS party needs to be focusing on. With a sense of urgency that has been lacking in the DNC for quite some time.

Here Here, DCochran! I've been wondering this myself for a very long time. It's hard to believe that five years ago, the cover of the French newspaper La Monde read "We Are All Americans Now". Thanks to our president, who admittedly has NO interest in foreign affairs, we have lost perhaps the ONE true opportunity to bring the world together and form allies that we could not have even imagined prior. We had the backing of (almost)the entire world after 9/11 and now we have more enemies than ever before. It's appalling. THIS is what THIS party needs to be focusing on. With a sense of urgency that has been lacking in the DNC for quite some time.

You make it very hard to defend you, Senate Democrats. You have disappointed the people you represent one too many times. To think that any one of you could go along with scrapping the Constitution so that you can take back either one of the houses makes me sick. The American people thought you offered a different choice than the Republicans. Turns out, you're just like them. No better. No worse. It's hardly a choice, is it? It won't work you know. A few months down the line, Bush & Co will be saying, "hey, the Democrats voted right along with Republicans" to give Bush the right to say to hell with habeas corpus, to hell with democracy, to hell with the American people. Now we know. TORTURE IS A-OK IN THE USA. McCain and Graham gave you a sucker bet, and you took the bait. If you think the Supreme Court will come to your aid, well, you're probably going to lose that one, too. CYA time is over and done. You blew it, guys. You refused to stand up for Americans. You refused to stand up for LAW! You've got no courage! No principles! Consequently, you got no votes, JERKS!

The Democrat Plan For Iraq

2006: Get a Democratic majority elected to Congress

2007: Provide MEANINGFUL oversight to the executive branch

2008: Get someone in the Whitehouse that can actually run things

To canigetawitness

I can understand how you feel, and I agree that it's outragous.

Remember though that democrats proposed alterations and amendments to the bill that as you know, got defeated, but just barely. Almost every democrat in congress voted for the amendments, but it was defeated in a 51-47 vote. (Almost right down party lines) Faced with the choice between a bad bill, and no bill at all, some chose what they felt was a lesser of two evils and crossed the line. -But a solid majority of democrats voted against it.

Once again I'm disappointed that the Democratic Party I love is failing to do the simple task of distingusihing themselves from Republicans on such important issues.

This report was a perfect opporunity to demostrat what the Dems would do differently in terms of military strategy.

When Republicans say that Dems only offer complaints, it's hard to disagree with them.

All the Dems said was that Bush's plan doesn't work, but failed to illustrate what SPECIFICALLY wasn't working, why, and what the Dems would have done differently.

Like hiring competent contractors and provisional government officials instead of just hiring incompenet officials just because they were "loyal" to the President.

Like explaining why Iraq went from the most dangerous trained army in the world, to a group of bumblers totally incapable of being trained as basic police officers.

Yes, we KNOW Bush and Rumsfield aren't very good, but you have to be specific! You have to state EXACTLY what you would have done different (and will do differently if you ever get power)after you point on a mistake.

Democrates need personal attacks and destroy the republican candidates.

It is no use talking about policies and intellectual crap since the people we want to vote are not smart.

Just do what republicans have been doing so successfully for so long.

Let us get dirty and beat them in their own game.

Democratic Party must attack Republican's pattern of "Corruption, Cronyism and Cover-up" as a theme for this election. We have mentioned corruption and Cronyism, However we have never put there three things together. When we always strike these three thing together, it will resonate with voters. Cover-ups has become a major issue with this Republican Congress and Bush-Cheney Administration.

President Bush is defending the indefensible by blindly insisting that the Iraq War does not raise the threat of terror or hurting the image and safety of the United States.
More than 3 years ago the President gleefully announced on the deck of an air craft carrier that the mission was accomplished. If the mission was truly accomplished, what is the US still doing in Iraq taking more and more losses and casualities in men, money and material. How come the insurgents, the Talibans and Al Quaeda are still doing so much havoc to America and its allies in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Five years later, Osama Bin Laden is still no where to be found and Iraq has since become a quagmire with sectarian violence becoming a fact of life as days go by. How come that the US now has to swallow her pride, by reducing herself to the level of Pakistan and even Afghanistan in order to secure their co-operation in fighting an intractable enemy the super power alone cannot subdue or defeat?
Our rock-star President, Bill Clinton has done a masterful job on Fox New reframing the issues for the Democrats in the coming elections and convincingly proving that the Republicans do not have the monopoly they always claim to have on Defense and Security. It's Daniel come to judgment.

The only monopoly the Repblicans seem to have in Iraq are the no-bid contracts for their war-profiteer buddies.
There are so many things that Democrat leadeship could be bringing up and haven't.
The Republicans have lied, disprected, and used unmitigated persiflage to put down the Democrats and obscure issues.
Why aren't more Democrats standing up and yelling at the liars??? Where's the justified anger???
We need give 'em hell, Harry, toe to toe confrontations over the issues and we aren't getting it.
It's not too late to start. In fact it's a damn good time to get the DNC off their duffs and into the fray.

Speaking of Democrats standing up, Jon Tester has come out with an ad that tells it like it is. He took aim at Sen. Burns' support for the Patriot act. I'm glad that Tester is running as a real person and not as a DNC/DLC Republi-clone.
Way to go!!!!

Today is 1 Oct 2006, over the past 72 hours the Congress has passed the Torture and Amnesty for Bush Act, the Spying on Americans without Oversight Act, The Pork Barrel for our freinds Act (Port Security). They have authorized a further 79 Billion for the Iraq and Afgan wars and admitted that in three months they will be back for 100 Billion more. Congressman Foley having outlived his usefulness to the House was finally exposed as a predatory pedaphile. The silence from the Democrats has been deafening as well as informative. I guess you do not protest that which you support.

Can't Bill Clinton run again for president or at least serve as Vice President since there has been a break in his two terms? Wouldn't that be a dream come true?

When is the DNC going to censure the Republi-lites who voted for the "Patriot" Act and against the Bill of Rights and their constituents. These legislators are un-American and un acceptable.

Not only has Bush ruined our reputation on the war issue, but also millions of dollars were donated to our Government from other countries and that money has not been used for Katrina. A law suit was filed against our Government because we ignored a request to report what funds have been allocated to that relief. Read about it at Foreign Policy www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3575
Someone needs to bring this up on the news ASAP. This is major. No one will ever be willing to help us in the future!!!

President bush, sidesteps, ignores and lies, or missplaces the truth. Americans need to wake up. All are soliders are a risk, including my son!!!

I wrote something about the soldiers in Iraq, a while back. This might be a good place to put it.
THEY AREN'T TROOPS!
A troop is a unit of cavalry
A troop is a faceless entity.
They are soldiers, marines, sailors, airmen
They are parents, siblings, children, family, friends, the nice kid down the block
They are trying to do the best job they can with limited resources
They aren't getting support from the politicians who sent them over there.

The administration knew that many of the units they sent weren't properly equipped and has admitted it.
The administration was told beforehand that we didn't have enough people to contain any civil uprisings after we took out Saddam's government. They fired the generals who told them the truth.
The administration knew there wasn't enough evidence to go to war, and so they withheld evidence that didn't serve their purposes.
At a time when we have more disabled veterans than anytime since Viet Nam, services to the Veterans' Admionistraiton are being systematically cut, the increases in the budget are always less than the money that is actually needed.
Local facilities have been closed down or curtailed and research on brain trauma and prosthesis are underfunded.
Lower ranking military have consistently gotten a smaller percentage pay raises than the rest of the military (targeted pay raises) since 2001. The excuse has been that they were "paid consistent with other people in their age group". Last time I looked the stock boy at Wal-Mart or the burger flipper at McDonalds weren't given the responsibilities or asked to put their lives on the line like these kids.
We have military families on food stamps.
Do these kids deserve this???
I think not.
If you don't think so either, email your Congressman and Senator, tell them how you feel.
Then those yellow ribbons will mean something.

You'd be surprised how many civilians don't know what's going on. Talking about what the Bushies are doing to our military stops even the most die-hard Republican in their tracks, especially if they are veterans.