sloppy seconds?

Republicans are cowards. Plain and simple.

Yeah, she did ok...But how can you screw this one up? The RNC woman was a sitting duck.

(Insert Cheney pun here)

this repig gal is cluelss , id wager she needs instructions on how to use her douchbag!

What a breath of fresh air! Karen Finney was brilliant, she didn't back down, defame or resort to low blows, and she spoke eloquently about what is really happening in the world of terrorism. She didn't let her counterpart get away with a single lie misrepresentation. Hallelujah!

Just maybe the Londoners are more aware that 'al C.I.A.-duh!' was behind the 'attacks'?

I mean, come on. They know that these things are a big publicity stunt, and no harm no foul. Wish my fellow countrymen could get on the same page. We might make some progress around here.

And by no harm no foul, I of course mean no one was blown the hell up, it was only meant to scare people up, so why get scared?

It's really pretty obvious.

Can we convince Ms. Finney to give lessons to more Democrats on how to stand up in a sensible, realistic way? She fights, but she fights fair. I want to see more of it from more of us.

That was sooooo good.

Ahhh, finally a woman that can kick some ass....and now maybe the DEMS- you know the ones already in DC representing us can take some lessons ....( I am sorry but they have not wowed me much after the '06 Elections...although Leahy etc have started Investigating.....BUT.....impeachment should NEVER have been "taken off the table")

cbs news says in its online edition that a internet chat predicted the london attempted car bombing.
so,, with this news, its only going to draw more eyes from the goverment(s) asking for more info regarding email and internet accounts.

something tells me, it wont end at this either.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/29/terror/main2997517.shtml

I like the blond chick but I could do either of them.

Finney is 20X better than the Democratic presidential candidates!!! She's spot on with her rebuttals!!! No mincing about. These GOP talking heads need to be slapped down good.

Hannity has just interviewed Giuliani re the "sensational massive al qaeda terror plot in London".

Giuliani actually said re the July 7th attack "cameras caught those people on July 7th, I know because I was here".

This is amazing stupidity. The bombers were later caught on CCTV AFTER THE ATTACKS.

NOT BEFORE THE ATTACKS.

Honestly your country is well and truly flushed down the toilet when such stupidity is a Presidential candidate.

Russ Mason UK @ 28:

Hannity has just interviewed Giuliani re the "sensational massive al qaeda terror plot in London".

Giuliani actually said re the July 7th attack "cameras caught those people on July 7th, I know because I was here".

This is amazing stupidity. The bombers were later caught on CCTV AFTER THE ATTACKS.

NOT BEFORE THE ATTACKS.

We that can think for ourselves know better than to listen to Giuliani.

Honestly your country is well and truly flushed down the toilet when such stupidity is a Presidential candidate.

So who were the Muslim dupes asked to park a couple o' Mercedes for a quick buck

Honestly your country is well and truly flushed down the toilet when such stupidity is a Presidential candidate.

russ UK

most folks know this,, but its the few ubber rich that simply keep the rest of the population so dumb that they believe ever damn thing that FAUX news can spit at them. america is going the way of aparthied and MCcarthyisum.

give it 5 yrs and its going to become another nazi germany.

Tweety finally asked a great question. What do we do to stop young men from becoming trained as terrorists? RNC's Lisa was completely stumped... it really left me wondering if this is a topic the RNC doesn't even ponder! She had nothing to say except I'm not an expert. No Kidding!

The GOP is truly clueless about creating a long term strategy to deal with terrorism-- besides invading countries and alienating our allies, of course.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA I love it!

This is what I love about Dems! They hit the mark ahellofa lot more than repugs. She rocks. I have some reading to do.

Even Squeaky hit the mark on most of his points, well more than shitface.

repugs should quill that phony opened-mouth-surprised-look (OMSL is a dangerous disease, it's alway fatal after a long illness of ridicule and shame) when confronted with the truth.

repugs always put forth their best. HAHAHAHAHAHA

Oh yeah, that wasn't Ms. Finney's counterpart either.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

"It's been ineffective and you know it."

"We already know that it's not working Lisa"

Karen Finnery I love you!

Is Karen Finney smarter than a 5th-grader? Tune in to Hardball to find out!

Q: “How do you stop young kids from becoming terrorists?”
A: End the grip of religion on young, impressionable minds.

Invading and blowing up a nation won't cut it.

We are witnesses to the crazynization of America.

PWNED!
Finney even had Talking Points Barbie admitting she wasn't an expert on these things!
Awesome!

Friar Tuck 37.

Thanks for the comments. I pay for Sky Subscription here in the UK - about $90 per month (Rupert Murdoch ownership) mainly for Sky Sports and the Football (soccer) coverage.

With this package comes Fox News channel 510 and it never ceases to amaze me!

I think somewhere deep inside me I have Sado Masochistic tendencies!

The whole of Fox news makes me sick to the stomach and yet night after night I tune into channel 510 and read the blogs here and at newshounds, think progress etc.

A final thought, meanwhile in London and elsewhere in the UK people are going about their daily business, travelling round London on the tube, buses etc totally unaffected by this latest attempt to bring carnage to our capital.

This spirit must go back to previous generations during world War 2 etc and the IRA threat during the 1970's and 1980's.

We Brits aren't easily intimidated!

"Tweety finally asked a great question."

I honestly think he just senses who is winning the argument and jumps on board.
Integrity hardly ever comes into play with these slugs.

>>Major kudos to the DNC for hiring Finney, they could use a few more just like her.

Another thing to thank Howard Dean for.

I do not share the enthusiasm that others have concerning Karen Finney. She states, quite correctly, that the U.S. presence is causing more terrorists to flock to Iraq but then inexplicably hastens to assure her Republican colleague that the U.S. will not, to use her word, withdraw precipitiously from Iraq. If she is using that word to indicate that the U.S. will not leave Iraq rapidly, then her statement is simply contradictory to what she previously said. If she admits that the U.S. military is inflaming the resistance fighters in Iraq, then the logical thing to do is to withdraw those troops as quickly as possible. As independent journalist Nir Rosen [who has spent much time in Iraq] has pointed out, if the U.S. were to finally leave Iraq, the resistance fighters would have nothing to resist against. Also, the last thing that al Qaeda wishes to have happen is for the U.S. to leave Iraq, since it is the U.S. presence in Iraq which serves as the best recruiting tool that al Qaeda could ever hope to have. Support the troops- bring them hope as quickly as possible-now.

The blond REPUG finally DID answer Tweety's question about how to stop young people from becoming terrists.

Her solution is to "... go into those countries and show them how to live better lives."

Translation: "We OCCUPY their homelands, and FORCE them to be like us."

The Buahies are pathetic. All HAT... and NO HORSE! They don't have a CLUE on what to do about foriegn policy.

Whooopeeee... Finney did okay.

It seems to be just me, while I thought that she held her own against the ditzy Republiclown, I was really underwhelmed.
No where did she call bullshit on the underlying, false premise the GOPerverts continue to spread.
That the war was wrong from the start.
Wrong.
That Iraq was not a threat, were not an enemy, and had not attacked us.
That is why things have gone so poorly in Iraq.
They did not want to be invaded by any country, but most especially not by a country they had not attacked.
That they do not want the occupiers there now, and although the Americans did certainly come in and break everything in the store, they do not want us guarding the rubble we created with rifles.
She barely talks about how there were not terrorists in Iraq before we attacked and invaded the country, they had nothing at all to do with 9/11 (and why is it that no one wants to ever discuss Saudi Arabia?), and that Hussein and Ossama Bin Forgotten were actually adversaries. She kind of alludes to how we are making it worse, but not in the most simple of all possible ways: Our occupation continues to inflame resentment against us by the people who did not ask to be invaded in the first place.
And this is just scratching the surface of the lies that go unchallenged daily, and while Finney did a good job of keeping an imbecile with a slow fifth grade mentality in check, how sad that anyone should be impressed by such an easy half-victory.

The bar really has been set extraordinarily low...

I believe that Bush people were likely behind the London incident today, precisely to drum up support for his phony war on terror. The Democrats are reading this just riight, much ado about nothing.

You're all going for the head fake. The War on Terror is a hoax. This was just another synthetic event ginned up to sell more fear and repression. Terror is largely a homegrown commodity. What you're seeing is just another part of the Psy Op, with the media used as the witting or unwitting tool.

And, it's more than patently clear that Bush himself has created the whole problem with the Islamists in the first place, by invading Iraq. If we just pull completely out -- the sooner the better -- peace can return to the region.

Was this another phony bomb in London? Police defuse it on the spot, terrorist bought a Mercedes to blow it up? Terrorist gets away in a City that has a couple hundred thousand cameras pointed everywhere except where the terrorists hatch their plots...MI6, 10 downing, and the City of London.

I kind of wonder if Chris has a multiple personality problem. One day he has our favorite person Coulter on and then he does this.
Even so, he still lets the Conservative start the debate and the Liberal react. Chris is a waste of air time. If Keith wasn't on the whole MSNBC schedule would suck. What kind of people watch programs like Lockup and Predator Raw?

I Thank you, Russ UK for your opinion and well wishes to you and yours too!!

Ill be sure to check out the places of which you mentioned to visit.
Be safe and god bless.

Tweety: how do you stop 5 yr olds from becoming terrorists?

A: Don't kill their parents.

Kudos to Karen Finney. That's the kind of consistent, truthful, direct answer that Dem consultants need to learn by heart.

1) We are for fighting terror
2) We are for doing it better than these assclowns
3) Effective policies don't start with shooting everything that moves.

etc.

The RNC bimbo ran out of talking points. And she looked like a fool.

But we should expect this kind of performance to become routine before we get too excited.

lafin, yep, no coincidence at all, especially with Wimbledon there at the same time -- for maximum TV exposure showing these made-up tereror plots to shore up Bush's popularity.

FunMe,
“It’s been ineffective and you know it.”

“We already know that it’s not working Lisa”

Karen Finney I love you!

Count me in on that fan-club as well, I loved the way she rubbed it in.

So Finney said a few times that the 'surge' and 'war' in Iraq are not working. So. She wasn't particularly winning-some or compelling, just stating the obvious.

No. 82,

Blair needed to boost his resume as a new envoy to the ME.
Let me remind you, Blair was an accessory in the Downing Street Memo and the war.

If Blair should be tortured in GITMO, he will confess every evil practices. I repeat EVERY EVIL PRACTICES.

The entire right-wing agenda consists of two things: a) keeping this country at war constantly with no peace, and b). putting money into the pockets of the rich to the detriment of everyone else (this includes poor, middle class, and even the lower end of the upper class). The sooner the left wing can bring these facts to light, the sooner this country will begin to shun those policies. The problem is, you have two bases that will continually march along with them lockstep even though it is not to their advantage to do so. They are the nationalist "America needs to kick everyone's butt" people and the fanatic religious people. The majority of these two groups barely make enough money to survive and contribute a high percentage of our fighting force. It really amazes me that they actually support these policies.

There is absolutely no way this country can defend itself from a concerted terrorist attack. The best we can hope to do is to reduce the overall threat. I fail to see how blowing up hundreds of thousands of potential terrorists and their friends and families actually helps to achieve this goal. I mean seriously, in response to 9/11, our country has killed and maimed 100 times as many people as died in 9/11. How is this justified?

JayC

Matthews' last question was the nail in the RNC lady's coffin.
What was her argument?

You can't say our surge is a failure yet. "It's not September yet."

August 31st and Sep. 1st. should be made in to a holidays. Aug. 31 can be called "Lemming Precipice Day."
Sep. 1st will simply be called "GO."

I can hardly wait.

PEACE

Russ:-- Ezzy and I are not wrong on this. Bush and Blair are definitely behind the latest phony terror incidents. First of all, they are phony, nothing happened. hmmm I wonder why. Second, who gains from this other than Bush, blair and their buddies. This is all to try to embarass the Democrats, but it won't work with smart people like Ezzy and me and millions of others pointing out what is really going on.

92, but don't you see, there was NO attack.

"Every major IRA bombing in England and Northern Ireland has had the fingerprints of the British government and the FRU all over it.

Starting from at least the 1980's, SAS and British military intelligence agents were routinely ordered to embed themselves within violent branches of the IRA and aid terrorists in carrying out attacks. How do we know this happened? Because one of the individuals who was ordered to do so, Kevin Fulton, blew the whistle on the fact that he was told he had the Prime Minister's blessing to aid terrorists in bomb making and political" assassinations.

It looks like finall the DNC has a spokeperson that can deliver the message loud and clear. The GOPers have had this talent for years and have been able to deliver their message of B/S so the masses took it as the truth.

Ask yourself, why do incidents like this never really happen in Texas, but only in places like London or Madrid where Azner, Bush's other buddy, used to be in power. This is simply to much coincidence that this happens in London but not Texas.

It appears that Sep is the end all tell all for Iraq......why do I have the sneaky feeling that come Sep, we'll need "just a little more time" to tell how the surge is working.....what about the immediate benchmarks Bush talked about in Feb.....we'll be able to tell in a "couple of months" if we're making headway............you know, I don't disagree with the BushCo approach....wait until 1-20-09 to leave it to another admin......Hillary, Obama, my pet turtle, the mole on your ass, the crackhead on the street corner could handle this situation better than the incompetent bunch of morons we have now. As long as we can maintain the status quo for another 1.5 years, then an adult will be president and we can end this "fools erand".

Steve, I guess your next step up would be to start watching Fox News. Just out of curiousity, can you pick Afghanistan out on a map.......

Wow.

Christ Matthews acts like an actual journalist. Will wonders never cease.

HOW'S IT FEEL TO FINALLY BE A MAN, CHRIS MAH BOY???

G-Baby, yah, they'll leave it for the next President, the Hillary Clinton administration, after she kicks ass and wins in more than 45 states. Don't be fooled by right-wing reports that Hillary has high unpopularity ratings. She is loved and respected by most Americans who know she is a powerful and very honest statesperson.

Al Qaeda Al Qaeda Al Qaeda Is Being Used

Lisa Comuso, the Republican hack, screamed it: "We are fighting Al Qaeda in Iraq and Afghanistan now." This one claim will be used to keep our troops in Iraq. The Republicans are placing their money on well felt hatred for those who were responsible for 9/11. Yes, all Americans want blood justice.

That being noted, I watched Al Qaeda's ranks swell two fold in two months time. From a two percent presence to now being the main fighting force in Iraq. You would swear magic was at hand because the multiplication of Al Qaeda's forces does not add up. There is no longer a sectarian civil war. The US has chosen one side to be Al Qaeda: The Sunnis.

While this was developing no one, and I mean no one, challenged the assertion Al Qaeda in Iraq was the primary problem in Iraq. Enter a 10,000 soldier offensive to help with the claim Al Qaeda was so entrenched in Diyala province they would need such a force to effectively uproot the threat. Now, the Republicans have their war mongering marching orders to call everything Al Qaeda. They feel we have bought the lie and they can treat Al Qaeda, the main problem in Iraq, as fact. Don't take my word for truth, set by and watch this lie continue to unfold.

Joseph

The Republicans need to get rid of this blonde spokesperson and get Ann Coulter back on Chris Matthews. At least Ann can distract the country.

Gawd!!! Blah blah blah blah.
Same dialogue for the last 4 years 3 months and counting. Same death, same crazy-making go-nowhere oppressive inability to talk about anything ELSE.
Bet the so-called bombs we planted and "discovered" (sure) .
9-11-9-11-9-11-9-11-9-11
It's what happens (the distraction) when cheney and bush are getting well-deserved bad press.
Who isn't sick to death of this idiotic puppet show!

Rashomon strikes again. The ostrich wingnuts don't see any connection anywhere cuz they are pathological specimens of displacement and denial. The moonbats would have been the Tories during the Revolutionary War.

The bombs in London are a real threat, let's not minimize it. Also remember that Londoners are a bit more accustomed to past terrorism from the Irish Republican Army.

That said, I agree that Ms. Finney is doing a good job with her responses.

Matthews is still a tool, but its the sad job of Finney, et. al. to go on shows like his and try to defend the Dems' position.

Whoa...."bitch slap". Bring those two back every night. The little blonde pimple had arguments that couldn't fool the geezers glued to the propaganda network in their lazy-boys. I'm not sure of the names of these two, but the intelligent one, the brunette, put a stop to the silly ass talking points that she kept trying to toss out as "logic" for this f*cked up strategy of the chimp and co's. Nice going ladies!!

'Oh, and Lisa? If you're looking for your head, it's out in the middle of the parking lot where I just punted it.'

• When will we have enough of America's ear to tell her that Bush released tens of thousands of tons of high-explosives, munitions, and nuclear materials to our enemies when he illegally invaded Iraq over lies, and then failed to deploy enough troops or order them to guard the KNOWN dangerous materials there?

And then Matthews would ordinarily come in and say that it doesn't matter that Dems are right -- Boy Wonder has an awesome package, and it either scares terrorists away, or else it makes him hard, he can't quite tell.

And O'Reilly, PROMISED his audience he wouldn't trust Boy Wonder if the WMD weren't there; and then went ahead and rolled the dice a second time, and has just been proven wrong again -- as his entire freak(in') party runs in the other direction.

Freak(in') Flip-floppers.

Who the hell are these goddmned neocons that tweety finds to spew their bullshit?

HAHAHAHA. London terror bombs...a can of gas some nails and a piece of cloth that the perp lit with the windows up. There wasn't enough air for it to burn. If it had burned down to the gas can nothing would have happened. Molotovs ignite when the gas is suddenly mixed with air in the presence of a flame, as when a glass container of gas is smashed after throwing it. I guess the retard who designed this "bomb" didn't stick around to pick up the car and throw it. The cops defused this pathetic device by reaching in the car and pulling the cloth out. Christ, these were just beat cops.

This is international "news" fed 24/7 by the fear fascists at foxploitation to their brood of suckling idiot piggies that nurse there every day.

In my day this was the kind of stunt not to bright teenagers would do on Halloween night.

If this story frightened any of the 30 percenters it really is alarming what emasculated cowards you have become or always were.

egalpad said: You’re all going for the head fake. The War on Terror is a hoax. This was just another synthetic event ginned up to sell more fear and repression. Terror is largely a homegrown commodity. What you’re seeing is just another part of the Psy Op, with the media used as the witting or unwitting tool.

As the saying goes, those who do not remember history are bound to repeat it Of course if you are never taught real history, it's hard to remember what you never learned. Real history includes the NATO/CIA/MI6 false-flag operation during the cold war known as Operation Gladio in which underground fascist and far right organizations with ties to Western intelligence agencies were used to stage murderous terror attacks on civilians in Western European countries. These terror attacks were then blamed by the media and governments on leftist radicals and commie subversives, the idea being to discredit and thereby prevent the election of leftists and communists to European parliaments. Here's a snip from an interview with Swiss historian Daniele Ganser author of the book NATO`s Secret Armies:Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe (available from Amazon.com).

Silvia Cattori: Your book about NATO’s Secret Armies [1] explains that the strategy of tension [2] and the False Flag terrorism [3] imply great dangers. It teaches us how NATO - together with the intelligence services or the West European countries and the Pentagon - utilised secret armies during the Cold War, hired spies among the extreme right wing, and organized terrorist acts for which they blamed the left. Becoming aware of this, we can wonder about what is likely to happen today behind our back.

Daniele Ganser:It is extremely important to understand what the strategy of tension truly represents the way it works nowadays. This can help us clarify the present and to see more clearly to what extent it is still in action. Only a few people know what the expression ’strategy of tension’ means. It is very important to talk about it, to explain it. It is a tactic that involves carrying out criminal acts and attributing them to someone else. By the term ’tension’, we mean emotional tension, all that which creates a feeling of tension.

By ’strategy’ we make reference to that which increases people’s fear in regard to a determined group. These secret structures of NATO had been equipped, financed and trained by the CIA, in coordination with the M16 (the British secret service), to fight against the Army of the Soviet Union in a case of war, but also according to the information to which he have access today, to commit terrorist acts in several countries [4]. That is how, since the 70s, the Italian secret services have been using these armies to foment terrorist attacks, with the purpose of causing fear among the population, and later, to accuse the communists of being the authors. The strategy of tension was designed to serve the purpose or discrediting, weakening and stopping communism from reaching executive power.

SNIP

Silvia Cattori: If I understand well, these Stay Behind groups, whose original goal was to be prepared in case of a Soviet invasion, have been deviated from that goal and were reorganised to defeat the left. From that, it is difficult to understand why the left parties have not investigated this or denounced this earlier.

Daniele Ganser: When we take the case of Italy, it appears that, every time that the communist party has interviewed the government to find an explanation about the secret army that was operating in this country under the coded name of Gladio [6], there was never any answer, under the pretext that it was a ’state secret’. It wasn’t until 1990 that Giulio Andreotti [7] recognised the existence of Gladio and its direct links with NATO, the CIA, and M16 [8]. _ It is also during that time that the judge Felice Casson was able to prove that the true author of the bombing in Peteano in 1972, that had shocked Italy, and that had been attributed up to that moment to the extreme left militants, was Vincenzo Vinciguerra, linked to ’Ordine Nuovo’, a group of the extreme right wing. Vinciguerra avoided blame for the bombing in Peteano with the help of the Italian secret services. Vinciguerra also spoke about the existence of this secret army, Gladio. He explained that, during the Cold War, these clandestine acts had caused the death of women and children [9]. He stated as well that this secret army controlled by NATO, had branches all around Europe. When this information was released, there was a political crisis in Italy. And it is thanks to the investigations of the judge Felice Casson that we got to know about NATO’s secret armies.

http://www.voltairenet.org/article144748.html

The BBC aired a 3 part documentary on Operation Gladio back in 1992, it is posted in streaming video at several web sites including google video, just google (BBC2 Operation Gladio video) and you`ll find the links.

HAHAHAHA. London terror bombs…a can of gas some nails and a piece of cloth that the perp lit with the windows up. There wasn’t enough air for it to burn. If it had burned down to the gas can nothing would have happened. Molotovs ignite when the gas is suddenly mixed with air in the presence of a flame, as when a glass container of gas is smashed after throwing it. I guess the retard who designed this “bomb” didn’t stick around to pick up the car and throw it. The cops defused this pathetic device by reaching in the car and pulling the cloth out. Christ, these were just beat cops.

Interesting. You dismiss the entire incident based on the bombs construction.

Dumb and poor bombs are just as deadly as fancy expensive bombs. Jihadis aren't trying to impress internet geeks who think they know to build explosives like a pro. They just want to get the job (of blowing up infidels) done.

It should be more disturbing that the materails used to make the bomb can all be purchased at your local deparment store hardware dept (and not from a secret laboratory in Antarctica where an underground society of bomb makers spend years and millions of dollars to make....)

But I Britons shouldn't stop to worry. Just put another pot of tea on and smoke another fag.....

Ooo....
Is that what we're doing in Iraq? Showing them a better way to live...

Ok, I got it now. Yeah that'll stop them from becoming terrorists.

Nobody's shocked by these attempted attacks, we all expected a little fear-mongering from Brown sometime or another.

Awww man. She made mince meat out of her. Talk about aggressive, luvs it.

Excuse my language but F--K Tweety.

He just HAS to come back and spout "9/11 which will haunt us til we die", Nice Rethuglican talking points.

MS Finney hits the nail on the head. Thank you I heard the same old song from the RACIST NAZIS COMMITTEE (RNC), don't they ever change.

Bombs yup like I said two weeks ago they are right on time blairs out the TALKING MONKEY and the GUTLESS, SPINELESS, COWARD and TRAITOR cheney are under heavy Investigations OOPS time for a distraction. Really don't think it was a Al Queade attempt more like a Intell attempt to make it look like Al Queade, remember you have deperate people doing desperate things to stay alive POLITICALLY.

NOW the Racist NAZIS COMMITTEE (RNC) spokes person is totally UNEDUCATED in the customs, culture and religious politics as well as the international politics in that part of the world. Her ignorance (shown by trumpeting the FASCIST RNC song) is shown when are the Media going to stop in place and shut IDIOTS like her down. Just a few unanticipated questions would sink these fools ship.

Once again THANK you Ms Finney for showing the right how STUPID they really are.

pwned by DNC

Wow, I didn't realize Chris Matthews was such a hack. I've never seen much of "Hardball" but this clip made it pretty clear A) what his bias is and B) that he's incapable of the necessary journalistic professionalism that suppressing one's bias entials. "We'll start with the Republican side because you're the ones that are running this country right now." Hello! Did he sleep through the elections last November? Anyway, I'm glad the DNC is finally making a stronger showing and aren't sitting back and being cowed by Republican BS rhetoric anymore. And what are people like Chris Matthews doing on a news channel anyway?

edgecity @ 36:

Tweety finally asked a great question. What do we do to stop young men from becoming trained as terrorists? RNC's Lisa was completely stumped... it really left me wondering if this is a topic the RNC doesn't even ponder! She had nothing to say except I'm not an expert. No Kidding!

The GOP is truly clueless about creating a long term strategy to deal with terrorism-- besides invading countries and alienating our allies, of course.

That is what stood out to me, too. She was speechless. And it is the problem -- they are reactionaries. They have a complete inability to understand that we need a political solution. They live in a black and white world.

Terrorism is horrible. It is wrong. But they miss the point -- it is borne from hatred that we are doing nothing to alleviate. And as much as it leaves a bad taste in their mouths, that has to be dealt with.

I swear, they are like children. But look at Bush -- he's the biggest child of all.

Watched the BBC News last night.

Night and day difference between the wall to wall coverage the USA's fear-mongering media gave this story and what The Beeb did.

Stiff upper lip indeed.

Chris should have said that the Republican Party was the one ruining the country and the world! I think that teenage boys will not want to join our cause when they see us as an illegal occupation force in their country. How can Republicans continue to lie in the face of the facts?

No. She only did a good job at perpetuating the myth the Al Quaida is a real threat.