Andrea Mitchell Moran Comment:on MSNBC this AM

[PCIntern]

MSNBC - paraphrasing, but not much...

"Jim Baker adn Ed Meese were fierce rivals during the Reagan Administration, but they came together for the commission, an example of BIPARTISANSHIP."

!!!!!!111 - Seriesly!!!1

[Jon8503]

1. I have always felt the only reason she has the news commentator

job is because of her husband (Greenspan) and his power. Her bias has always been obvious and she is a terrible commentator. As time goes by, she will probably fade away.

[PCIntern]

3. Yaou're a real optimist...n/t

[Hubert Flottz]

2. Andrea Doria Mitchell?

The GOP owns her!

Edit...And Alan Greedspin!

[Ganja Ninja]

4. As Russ Feingold said:

There isn't a person on this commission that was against the war to begin with.

[Hubert Flottz]

7. And Russ was right.

The Democrats on that panel are globalist first America second democrats.(DLC)

[MADem]

8. In an odd way, though, that makes the results all the more damning

You'd think if they were so gung ho, they'd be championing a 'stay the course' strategy.

To be fair to Leon Panetta, he was griping about the cost in terms of lives and shittily defined mission more than two years ago: http://www.panettainstitute.org/Commentaries/091204.htm

FACT: The Iraq War has turned into a deadly quagmire that is killing Americans on an average of two a day and there is no clearly defined mission about the length and level of commitment, the cost or the future of U.S. involvement.

Both say they would still have gone to war in Iraq even knowing all of the terrible intelligence failures confirmed by the September 11 th Commission. Nonsense. Does anyone really believe that we would have charged into war knowing that there were absolutely no weapons of mass destruction and no ties to al Quaeda; that we would have spent $200 billion and nearly a thousand of our most precious American lives just because Saddam Hussein was a bad dictator … something that happens to be true about most dictators in the world.

A little honesty would admit to the mistakes of the past. A little honesty would make clear that U.S. troops may have to be in Iraq for another five to ten years before stability is achieved and that all of us will have to continue to bear the financial and human costs necessary to straighten out this mess.

FACT: The war on terrorism really may not be winnable. It is a sad commentary on the state of politics that when the President finally says something that is true but controversial, both his campaign and opponents force him to back off to the political shelter of “of course we will win!”

As we have seen over the last few weeks, terrorists do not just respond to the cause of al Quaeda. They use terror to advance their ideologies and beliefs in Israel, Afghanistan, Iraq, Russia, Africa, Asia and everywhere else. Terror is not a cause, it is a tool of war on behalf of a cause. To say that we can win the war on terrorism is to say that we can resolve every religious, cultural, racial, economic and social conflict in the world. Not likely.

What we can do is to confront the underlying causes and frustrations that breed terrorists. ....

[tanyev]

5. That is the GOP's definition of bipartisanship.

When all types of Republicans come together and agree on mutually beneficial goals.

[PCIntern]

6. Reminds me of the wife of a friend of mine...

"Be reasonable..do it my way."

[Virginia Dare]

9. She's a right royal bitch too...

she came into an office where I was working one time to interview somebody and you would have thought the fucking Queen of England was there.

[PCIntern]

10. That's true of many local correspondents as well

I used to do "To your health..." pieces for ther local news, but I had had it with the egos of these 4th rate media folk in Philly here.

Wotta bunch...