I like that the Iraq Study Group told Congress that they needed to fund the military properly for the next five years.

There are very few things that really are the federal governments job, but National Defense has always been one. If Congress will only listen.

The Iraq Surrender Group has completed its work. Leave it to James Baker, the architect of encouraging the Kurds and Shiites to rebel against Saddam in 91 and then abandoning them to poison gas and murder to say we need to do this and that. The Europeans love him, he is more closely related to their ideas than to ours.

The arab press is already crowing that we are defeated, that we will leave and that we are once again paper tigers. We have willed ourselves into defeat, this time of a much more serious scale than Vietnam or Somalia.

Iraqis better pack a suitcase and leave it by the front door. You never know when that last helicopter out of Baghdad will be leaving. Its a sure bet it wont be long.

The next attack in this country will be directly related to this surrender and the lack of will to complete the job at hand.

And what do we tell people like my new Intern, Richard Ingram, who lost his lower left arm in Iraq? What did he give it up for? Surrender? How about the 26 dead members of the 48th Brigade? How do we face their mothers and tell them, "well, we are tired of the fight and will now give it up."

This whole business makes me sick at my stomach. The Surrender Monkeys and Defeatists will rue the day we didnt destroy Muslim Fascism in the middle east while we had the chance.

I don't think we should leave right now, but the longer we stay, the more "Muslim Fascists" we help breed.

The welfare-warfare state is healthy! That is what the Iraq Study Group report means. Keep on funding the military and the troops......which will continue the same old quagmire. No wonder Colin Powell left the administration. He preached for 25 years that whenever the US intervened militarily, it needed clearly defined objectives, political support, and an exit strategy. The neocons thought this was foolish. They wanted to remake the world for democracy. Let's make a democratic Iraq.... Ya, that has turned out well. (I do not understand the logic of Senator Douglas -- all respect sir, but just because servicemen have been killed and wounded in Iraq does not mean we should stay there indefinitely. I admire the bravery of our troops, but they are cannon fodder for the intellectually bankrupt policies of the neocons)

Libertarians, in my fallible opinion, should push for the US to get out of this war and return to the foreign policy of the early 19th century -- mind your own business and strike only in self defense. It seems to me that that is the proper foreign policy for a republic.

Increased funding & troop strength are the good points.

The Iraq Surrender Committee setting a time to leave is wrong. Failing to define 'the mission" was also wrong.

I am little surprised that the non-partisan, non-elected bunch of business interest lawyers (**) and advocates came up with political cover for everyone - and plenty of "The US screwed up" to go around. But they provide us with nothing but recommendations to begin talks with the very countries that supply troops and armaments used against us.

** Baker & his firm (including his son James IV) represent Saudi Arabia. O'Conner supported Dubai in running our ports. Like the 9/11 Commission, this hot-shot committee was created to pull W's fat our of the political wringer, but not to further US interests.

Joshua: Do police cause crime?