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By Dusty

May 11, 2007 9:18 AM | Link to this

I commend Gov. Perdue for his frank and honest opinion on the Iraq War and President Bush. The governor has given us some of the best advice from a politician I have heard in a long time.

Georgia’s governor looks and sounds very good. The governor of Kansas has shown us the other side.

By WTF???

May 11, 2007 9:30 AM | Link to this

Sonny is an idiot!!!!! Throw him in the same ditch with Bush and Cheney………they’re all a disgrace to politics!!!!!

By Sonnywho?

May 11, 2007 9:36 AM | Link to this

and we all know what happened to Spiro….

By SICEM

May 11, 2007 9:37 AM | Link to this

Amen Sonny, You know I still remember the night of 09-11-01 when all of those two faced Democrats stood behind the President as he said this was going to be a long and costly war against terrorism and they were behind him 100%. I realized what the President was saying was true and knew we were going to have to be in it to win no matter how long and costly it would be. This is no political BS people! We must not run away like a coward and let the terrorist win! Our very way of life depends on the USA coming out on top in this thing. How soon some people forget. Those who have turned their face inside out should be ashamed of themselves! Think back now how you felt when you watched the President that night. How you felt towards the cowards that had struck the USA. Remember? Well you should feel the same way today as you did that night and if you dont you are as big a coward as the idiots who started this by flying planes into the Trade Center Towers!

By kdog

May 11, 2007 9:39 AM | Link to this

Hey, Gov. Ever hear about a little pesky thing called freedom of speech? Yeah, I know it’s not really popular among you political types, especially in regards to boneheaded moves you’ve made. Who are you to tell me to “keep my mouth shut” when the Founding Fathers, those folks that created that Bill of RIghts, say we have the right and responsibility to speak how, when and where we choose? Or is it different in the state of Georgia?

By sonnyisayahoo

May 11, 2007 9:44 AM | Link to this

Sonny is a chicken-hawk just like Cheney and Chambliss. No problem encouraging other young people to die but ran for cover when the government asked them to enlist. Absolute loser!

By Chip Shirley

May 11, 2007 9:45 AM | Link to this

Purdue is not a politician, he’s a priveliged pimp. How many times has he told people who oppose his ideas to “Shut their mouth.” He doesn’t believe in law and order or democracy, he’s one of the phony republicans who got rich off of cheap illegal labor, paying the law to look the other way and now he trys to talk tough on immigration and it’s all a front. He’s a hateful hypocrite. Mrs. Perdue- “Sonny what are we gonna do about all the pedophiles?” Sonny- “We’re gonna sell them to China for dogfood and then I’ll have all the little chilluns for myself.”

By elizabeth

May 11, 2007 9:45 AM | Link to this

The President DID choose war. He chose war with Iraq even though the evidence linking 9/11 and Iraq were tenuous at best, non-existent at worse. When you start a war, make sure you’re actually in the right country going after the right people.

By Bonaire Boy

May 11, 2007 9:46 AM | Link to this

I’ve got a better idea! How about redeploying the troops in Iraq to Afganistan/Pakistan in order to get Bin Ladin and his ilk. Remember them? Meanwhile Iraq is already engaged in a disastrous civil war and there is nothing our military can do to stop it, short of adopting the tactics of terrorist, insurgents, and guerillas, which I hope we will never do.

Sonny is too provincial to be vice president of anything, except maybe the local chamber of commerce.

By Jack

May 11, 2007 9:46 AM | Link to this

Maybe if we don’t actually talk about the war, it will all just go away…

By No really?

May 11, 2007 9:49 AM | Link to this

Who would consider Perdue for VP? Really that is a joke….please Lord let it be a joke.

By Daedalus

May 11, 2007 9:49 AM | Link to this

Sonny Perdue may well be the dimmest bulb that ever sat in the Governor’s Mansion. And that is saying something.

Bush did not choose this war? Put down the Kool-Aide — Bush and his advisors wanted this war from the moment he took office.

However even Bush admits that there is no connection between Saddam and 9/11 — as many Republicans (including on this forum and working at AJC) still believe.

But I understand Perdue’s notion about not saying anything about the problems in Iraq. Perdue doesn’t even talk about the problems here in Georgia (transportation, health care funding, etc.) so why should he talk about Iraq?

He’s too busy piddling with his tackle box cause he’s going fishing.

By J. Stalin

May 11, 2007 9:50 AM | Link to this

Freedom means “shut up!” War makes peace. Torture people to defend justice. Destroy Iraq to make Arabs like the U.S. Wiretap to protect the right to privacy. Imprison without charge to defend freedom. It all makes perfect sense—here in the U.S.S.R.

By kdog

May 11, 2007 9:52 AM | Link to this

So the “war on Terror” is the war in Iraq? Whatever happened to going after public enemy number one, Osama Bin Laden? remember him? He was supposed to be the main person behind the attacks, yet nearly 6 years later, he still makes videos and we can’t seem to find him. makes you wonder what we’re really doing in the “war on terror,” which was what we all thought was the focus, NOT going into Iraq and cleaning up after Bush 1.

By WTF???

May 11, 2007 9:56 AM | Link to this

Sonny, the Priviledged Pimp, Perdue!!!! ROTFLMSAO!!!!

And we all know why Bush isn’t after Bin Laden, hell that’s his longtime family friend!!!!!! Ever see Fahrenheit 9/11? And YES, Bush has wanted the war to get his hands on Iraqs oil and such for a loonngg time!!!!

By JW

May 11, 2007 10:01 AM | Link to this

As quoted, “It’s better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.” Thanks for removing the last of my doubts.

By Peter

May 11, 2007 10:05 AM | Link to this

sicem - So, you believe all that BS about fighting them there so we don’t have to fight them here? You don’t question the tactic when there are plans to attack Fort Dix, NJ (or have we lost already)?

By TomG

May 11, 2007 10:08 AM | Link to this

Guess what Governor, the last I heard we still have free speech in this country, so we’ll keep talking about what’s on our minds and you can choose not to listen. That’s what most of our current political leaders do anyway. I guess it is government of, for, and by the people unless you disagree with the people.

By JJfighter

May 11, 2007 10:08 AM | Link to this

I thank God everyday that there are still men in the world that have the stomachs to do what’s necessary to defend our nation. Bedwetting Michael Moore disiciples like “WTF” are killing our country with with their pillow biting PC dribble. “WTF” - change your diaper and leave fighting to the men.

By dave53

May 11, 2007 10:08 AM | Link to this

Hey Sonny….yesterday, the Iraq government formally stated that they would prefer a scheduled withdrawal of U.S. forces in Iraq during the next year, with a cap on total American forces. Now it’s unaminous. The war is a black hole consuming American lives and dollars. This war is unwinable, and Bush knows it. This president is the most stubborn, muleheaded leader this citizen has ever seen in politics in his lifetime. It will be his, and this country’s, ultimate sad legacy.

By WTF??

May 11, 2007 10:16 AM | Link to this

JJ, go bite a brick!!!! These so-called men (more like wanna-be pimps acting like big spoiled brats) are whats screwing us up right now. Yes, I love men! But that’s all we’ve had running this country and look at where it’s gotten us! SCREWED!!!! So as stated before, GO BITE A BRICK!!!

By WTF??

May 11, 2007 10:18 AM | Link to this

Oh yeah, and JJ, be sure to take your beloved men (Bush, Sonny and Cheney) with you!!

By Carlton Wyatt

May 11, 2007 10:22 AM | Link to this

How about idiots like Sonny and all the other blood-lusting sycophants shutting up unless they’re willing to head for the front lines and put their lives on the line instead of sitting in their comfy gas-guzzling SUVs. Perdue, Cheney, Chambliss, and the rest of them find it very easy to risk OTHER people’s lives. Cowards all of them.

By bdf

May 11, 2007 10:24 AM | Link to this

“W” is perhaps the most stubborn, idiotic, worthless leader that this country has ever had…he is an absolute embarrassment to Republicans and Democrats alike. There is nothing sincere about the man or his politics. I pray for the day that he is no longer in office. Unbelievable. I pray for the lives lost in Iraq, and I pray for those who are still there. I do hope that we bring them home soon, they no more deserve to be there, than Bush deserves to be the leader of this great country. I am proud to be an American, but not proud of our leadership.

By TW

May 11, 2007 10:28 AM | Link to this

Sonny always drinks way too much during prom season.

By JJfighter

May 11, 2007 10:31 AM | Link to this

WTF - Again. Thank god for men like these and the ones who’ve come and died before. I’ve fought. I’ve contributed. Like my father and his before him. All so mindless idiots like you could sit safely behind your keyboard spew nonsense.

You are repugnant.

By LivingRight

May 11, 2007 10:32 AM | Link to this

The republican party continues to show us why they have been owned for the last 5 years by a guy who lives in a cave.

By woodie

May 11, 2007 10:33 AM | Link to this

I have a better idea Gov. Perdue. How about let’s pull out of Iraq. We aren’t at war with Iraq and we have no clear purpose there militarily. It shouldn’t take 3 years to train a police force and military. Our purpose there is done. We toppled Saddam’s government and established another which is in the hands of the people of Iraq. Mission accomplished, let’s go home. I have yet to hear a good reason why we are still there. I’m again further escalation and our economy is no better for this enormous tax drain. If you don’t care, at least get out of the way of those that do.

By Mel in Midtown

May 11, 2007 10:34 AM | Link to this

My, this is tasty Kool Aid, Governor, may I have some more?

By SICEM has been deceived

May 11, 2007 10:38 AM | Link to this

Hey SICEM,

Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11/01.

By A better idea?

May 11, 2007 10:39 AM | Link to this

A better idea? How about this, we shouldn’t have even been in Iraq.

By Peter

May 11, 2007 10:40 AM | Link to this

Let the war funding veto stand! (The invasion of Iraq ends by Duh-bya’s hand.)

By Ray

May 11, 2007 10:40 AM | Link to this

Amen SICEM – I’ll never forget that day when Saddam Hussein flew them planes into our buildings. Haven’t been that scared since 1975, when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.

By Bilbo

May 11, 2007 10:52 AM | Link to this

The President did not choose war? BULL$HIT!!! He most certainly did choose war. He illegaly used war funds that congress set aside for Afghanistan to go into Iraq. Congress never approved war dollars for Iraq in 2002. Bush has had a hard on for Sadaam ever since his dad whimped out and didn’t bring him down. Let Junior finish the job and use 911 as an excuse.

“Protect the United States”? PLEASE! Iraq never once attacked the U.S. Where the hell is Bin Laden Bush? Where is he!?! He’s planning another attack while Bush is killing our soilders in a war we can’t win and a in a war we never belonged in.

By Truth

May 11, 2007 10:52 AM | Link to this

Ray it is sad to see your ignorance in black and white. Saddam had nothing, absolutely nothing to do with the World Trade Center. Get educated before spewing off such hateful and wrong information.

By WTF??

May 11, 2007 10:54 AM | Link to this

JJ seems to me you’re the mindless idiot, running behind these fools in office, no matter how stupid they are, and how stupid their decisions are. You’re just the type of robotic fool they favor, knowing you’ll go and risk your life so that they can sit back and go fishing!!! And who’s the smart one, definitely not you!!!! Now be gone!!!!!

By KP

May 11, 2007 10:56 AM | Link to this

Seems like the Gov has a lot to say since he’s been re-elected. I’d venture to say that if he’d said and done a lot of these things he’s done since that if he’d done and said them before, that he’d not be governor now.

Another politician misleading (lying) the electorate and then doing what he wants once he’s elected.

By JM

May 11, 2007 10:59 AM | Link to this

Sonny is an absolute disgrace and an embarrassment to the State of Georgia.

By Bilbo

May 11, 2007 10:59 AM | Link to this

RAY That was feakin funny dude! You said so much in just a couple of sentences. I can’t believe that there are people still out there that still believe that Iraq had WMDs and had something to do with 9/11. The koolaide drinkers just cannot or will not admit that their beloved dumba$$ of a president is a liar.

By Bilbo

May 11, 2007 11:01 AM | Link to this

Oh, and by the way TRUTH, Ray was inserting heavy sarcasm into this blog. German’s bomb Pearl Harbor? Jeez, there are some dumb people in here.

By JT in Gwinnett

May 11, 2007 11:03 AM | Link to this

Thanks Sonny, I enjoy having an ignorant gasbag tell me to keep my mouth shut. Nice job you and your ilk (Saxby,Cheney,Rumsfeld) have done with the country the last six years. Expect more things you don’t want to hear in the coming months. Like “Bush Impeached”

By WTF??

May 11, 2007 11:04 AM | Link to this

Oh, and let me add that I truly respect and appreciate all that our troops do for our country!!! Too bad the leaders (and I’ll use that word loosely) that they are sometimes following are COMPLETE idiots…..like the ones mentioned above. Thanks troops (male and female), God bless them all!!!!

By harold

May 11, 2007 11:07 AM | Link to this

Harold pays Sunni should definitely be run as VP on the republicans ticket so we can be rid of his stupid arse!!

RUN FORREST RUN OOPS SUNNI

RUNN SUNNI RUNN

THe R’s have no chance in hades of winning so it’s the purrrfect time to rid the polcital landscape of SUNNI perdoofus

By JJfighter

May 11, 2007 11:18 AM | Link to this

Yes WTF, you clearly appreciate all they do. Those “robots” like myself and those still overseas have done something to contibute. Have you? I’ve been to Afganistan and Iraq. Have you? Have you done anything to EARN the freedom of speech you so clearly enjoy? Didn’t think so. There are people who act, who contribute and then there are people who complain. So I ask you WTF, Who The F#C& is it that “should be gone”? I’m sure I speak for the vast majority of my fellow troops when I say take your blessings and shove them up your ignorant @$$

By ???????????

May 11, 2007 11:21 AM | Link to this

I wonder how lying to the american public about WMD and the threat of Iraq was going to: “The president did not choose war. The president chose to protect the United States of America, and he did,” Perdue said.

Is this guy drinking the kool-aid or what????

By A good idea?

May 11, 2007 11:25 AM | Link to this

JJfighter, and this is a serious question because maybe I am missing something here, but why did the US invade Iraq, and if that was a mistake, why are we still there? I totally understand Afganistan but not Iraq.

By Stewart

May 11, 2007 11:31 AM | Link to this

“Amen SICEM – I’ll never forget that day when Saddam Hussein flew them planes into our buildings. Haven’t been that scared since 1975, when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.”

I have seen some pretty stupid statements on this board by whacked out liberal bed wetters. But what is your point?

Did we not fight the Germans in WW2? Even though they did not bomb Pearl Harbor? Did Saddham Hussein not support suicide bombers in Israel? Was he not linked to the Trade Center bombing in 1993? Did your “God” Bill Clinton not bomb Iraq over twenty times during his administration? The world of Geopolitics gets very confused and twisted. Maybe going into Iraq was a mistake. But any “thoughtful” person would believe that losing is an even bigger one.

Billbo. I’m going to call you out too. It is a proven fact that Iraq had WMDs. He used them against the Kurds. Maybe they haven’t found any since 2003. Or maybe they were removed. Some people believe the Russians helped moved them to Syria. Wacky? Maybe, but not any more so than the leftwing nuts who say Bush 1) was responsible for 911 and 2) He is going after Iraqi Oil.

By shut up

May 11, 2007 11:31 AM | Link to this

SONNY, You need to “keep your mouth shut”. LOSER

By A good idea?

May 11, 2007 11:34 AM | Link to this

Secondly, if the Iraqi government, that we help set up, wants us to start withdrawing troops along with the Iraqi people, why would we stay somewhere we are not even wanted anymore?

By Todd

May 11, 2007 11:35 AM | Link to this

JJ Most of the people I talk to on a daily basis appreciate what you have done and believe in it. I have no political affiliation at all. It really bothers me when people call elected officials names just beciase they dont believe in what they say. I don’t agree with much of Bill Clinton’s policies or the lack of respect he showed for the office but I am not going to call him names because just like Bush, Sonny, Bill and most everyone that has held the office. They are trying to do what they think is best.

By Stewart

May 11, 2007 11:39 AM | Link to this

Woodie,

Thoughtful questions. My answer would be that if we pulled out of Iraq, Iran would move in and dominate the region. Take in more money from oil sales, build nuclear weapons, and attempt to destroy Israel.

On a more humanitarian note…When we pulled out of Vietnam, over 2 million South Vietnamese were slaughtered by the VietCong and Chinese. A lot of people are pressuring the UN and the US to intervene in Darfur. Maybe that is the thing to do. But why let thousands and millions of innocent iraqis die?

By Stewart

May 11, 2007 11:42 AM | Link to this

By A good idea?

May 11, 2007 11:34 AM | Link to this

Secondly, if the Iraqi government, that we help set up, wants us to start withdrawing troops along with the Iraqi people, why would we stay somewhere we are not even wanted anymore?

If they truely want us to leave then we should. My guess is that the latest statement is propaganda by the Iraqi government to help appease the Democrats here in the US. The VP was just there. Maybe he told them the political pressure is too strong to resist. Don’t believe everything you hear out of a politician..Whether they are republican, democrat, american or iraqi.

By JJfighter

May 11, 2007 11:43 AM | Link to this

A good idea - I don’t pretend to understand all of the reasons we invaded, but I do know that it goes a great deal farther than simply uncovering WMD or simply “taking oil”. There were and are terrorist training programs in Iraq. To assume that because that because 9/11 hi-jackers weren’t Iraqi, that Iraq wasn’t a threat is to take a much too simplistic view. The fact of the matter is that Al-Qaeda is everyday diverting resources to Iraq to fight us there. I’d much rather the fight take place there than on the streets of New York or Atlanta. This isn’t a black and white issue. It’s complex and it calls for tough decisions. I don’t know the answers but I know what I’ve seen and what I feel. Thank you for asking an open minded question, if if you don’t agree with my answer. It’s much more than some people can muster.

By John

May 11, 2007 11:44 AM | Link to this

Poor Sonny;

He should have taken his own advice and just shut up about Iraq. Anyone who is not prepared to at least talk about the mistakes (and lies)made is in a state of denial. If I follow his logic, I should be happy about war. I don’t think so.

We’ve lost over 3000 soldiers, Over 20,000 wounded and that without facing an organized Army! Get real Sonny, show some leadership or shut up.

By Rob

May 11, 2007 11:44 AM | Link to this

America has messed up every war it has been in since WW2. Maybe it should learn from this.

By RamblinLonghorn

May 11, 2007 11:48 AM | Link to this

Sorry JJfighter, those rights are inborn inalienable rights according to the Constitution and Declaration of independence. Military service is not required, and sometimes conflicts with these rights.

By 2N4YEARS

May 11, 2007 11:50 AM | Link to this

It’s really comical that I keep reading all of these posts on here bad-mouthing the War in Iraq & Pres. Bush, yet no one has an idea as to how they would handle the World conflict w/ extremist. NO IDEA’s??? Then shut up. Liberal’s at there best…lol

By SP

May 11, 2007 11:50 AM | Link to this

JJfighter, how sad it is that you can’t make logical connections. I know it’s difficult for some to grasp this concept: one can support the troops, without supporting the leadership’s decisions. I served this country from 95-99 in the USMC and I enjoy observing people who disagree b/c it reminds me of what I served for: freedom to agree or disagree. It’s sad to see individuals like yourself not be able to grasp that concept as you belittle others for disagreeing with you. You and I did not serve for the purpose of having others forced to agree with us; we served to protect the freedom that allows others to agree or disagree with us. I’ve done plenty to earn my freedom; does that mean I have more speech rights than my neighbor who didn’t serve? Obviously not. I didn’t make a choice to serve to obtain a greater degree of constitutional rights. I served to protect them. I welcome your comment, but I expect it to be of the same caliber as the previous posts, rhetorical and illogical. Once name-calling comes into the picture (“ignorant a*”), you really do lose all intellectual credibility.

By A good idea?

May 11, 2007 11:51 AM | Link to this

I can understand that, thanks for the response.

By Casey

May 11, 2007 11:54 AM | Link to this

Well it appears that the the Governor has his head hung right up the President’s A* again! Neither Bush nor Purdue have children over there fighting in this senseless and false war. This is America Sonny, and citizens have a “right” to voice their opinions even when they disagree. Seems like your fat a* has gotten cocky sense your recent victory at the capital. Bush would not stop until he had finished something his precious daddy couldn’t finish. Now look as the hot mess we’re in!

By newkid

May 11, 2007 11:54 AM | Link to this

JJfighter, the fight’s not with you and others who faithfully pick up everything and go into battle when called upon. My father was of this ilk, so I’ve got the utmost respect for you cats. Rather this disdain is with those who we depend upon to use our lives, our money, and our international goodwill with the utmost care after the most introspective deliberations. The evidence overwhelmingly shows that those in whom we’ve placed this enormous trust have failed us. That failure is unwarrantingly costing us the precious lives and limbs of true heroes like yourself, and those so many innocent Iraqi victims (I think Mr. Cheney and Mr. Powell call it collateral damage); it’s costing our children decades of ‘blowback’ from those around the world who view this quite obvious overwhelming evidence and come to the conclusion that the United States’ deeds are incongruent with its words. It’ll cost our children and grandchildren trillions of dollars for decades to pay off the huge financial debts to those countries who’re financing our war debt.

So ultimately JJfighter, it’s the decision-makers (some call them desk murders) who send our troops and intelligence contractors off to ‘take out’ the Allendes of Chile (1970’s), to install the Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of Iran (1950’s), to prosecute the Vietman war in the 1960’s, and to - under false pretenses - wrongly invade and occupy an Iraq in 2003 and beyond; it’s those decision-makers with whom so many take issue. The realities of the 21st century require that our ‘leaders’ realize that 20th century type ‘shock & awe’ approaches to forcing our neighbors on this planet to conform to our wishes will be wantonly ineffective, and will continue to result is drastic blowback for us and our progeny. We don’t really want that do we JJ?

Mr. Sonny is clearly clueless, but that’s not at all newsbreaking. Where are our young people on these matters? It’s your lives that are being most adversely affected by the stupidity of these so-called decision-makers. Stand up to these idiots; don’t let them ruin your futures with 19th century approaches to 21st century problems. Take back your country; take back your future.

By Joe Agnew

May 11, 2007 11:57 AM | Link to this

Well we all know what happened to Agnew. He was thrown out of office for being crooked (Which they all are). NOW for some other views… We need to win now because if we quit will will really look ridiculious throughout the world and everyone would now how to just out last us in war. Here is my plan. We release all of our HARDEN prisoners (Like Churchill) and put them in the military. They can never return to our country BUT they get freedom over there in the sand, etc…WE then turn a lot of the prisons into schools, etc…save US money on taxes, etc..THEN we finish the job!

No don’t get me wrong…we shouldn’t be there in the first place BUT the Iraqi Govt are a bunch of wimps so let’s take them out.

GO FISH GEORGIA!!!

By Rebecca

May 11, 2007 12:02 PM | Link to this

Why does everyone seem to forget that the terrorists of 9/11 had no affiliation with Saddam and Iraq? I can understand Afghanistan, but Iraq? Please, the war in Iraq occurred because Saddam wanted to kill his daddy. The CIA could have taken Saddam out…they’ve disposed of unfavorable leaders before….

By Sonny Perdoofus

May 11, 2007 12:03 PM | Link to this

Four more wars! Four more wars! Four more wars! Man, that was a Republican convention to remember!

By Kevin

May 11, 2007 12:05 PM | Link to this

GWB did, in fact, choose war. Although he didn’t call it a war, by Constitutional or legal standards. Thus, he has the power to do what he wants with little Congressional oversight. Make no mistake about it: This is GWB’s mess and his alone. Re: Purdue— He has long ignored the Metro areas’s problems and, instead, focused more on the 20% of the state’s rural population. He has ignored the fact that Atlanta is the only thing keeping Georgia from becoming Mississippi.

By ML

May 11, 2007 12:06 PM | Link to this

Sonny Perdue running as vice-president with who, Newt “the Finger-Pointing Hypocrite” Gingrich?

Impeach the Chimp, Darth Cheney and Sonny!

By Jim J

May 11, 2007 12:10 PM | Link to this

Really this can all be summed up in two words: Republicans suck.

By Mark

May 11, 2007 12:16 PM | Link to this

Those of you who make the argument that “Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 so why did we go after them?” couldn’t be any more wrong in your way of thinking. You all are the same people that would have been opposed to an invasion of Afghanistan in August 2001. Or in other words, you believe it is only appropriate to defend ourselves militarily AFTER we have been struck and the damage has been done. If you believe that Saddam meant America no harm, you are deluding yourself. He may not have been involved in the planning of 9/11, but you can be sure that he cheered it on. And furthermore, it can only be assumed based upon his record that he would have continued to give any anti-West terrorist organization any and all kinds of support, including financial support. Until America gets realistic about the fact that the civilized world is going to have to set up shop and occupy many areas in the Middle East for many years, no real progress is going to be made. Living out in La-La land and pretending that there aren’t thousands of crazy Muslims that want to kill each and every one of us posting right here isn’t going to help. Overthrowing Afghanistan, leaving everything other regime in the Middle East as is isn’t going to help anything either. Progress will only be made after a few decades of direct American intervention in the Middle East. It is sad, but true. Don’t shoot the messenger.

By Betty Vereen Hill

May 11, 2007 12:16 PM | Link to this

To be blunt, what a crock from Sonny Perdue that Bush “did not choose war”. Wake up and smell the coffee, Guv - the fact that we are at war in Iraq is precisely what Bush chose. It appears that Perdue is just one more sycophantic follower of Bush and will support him to the end, no matter how many lies have to be told and no matter how many lives have to be lost in Iraq.

By Bill Underwood

May 11, 2007 12:23 PM | Link to this

Bubble head Perdue and Bill (lost virtue aka the gambler Bennett), what a pair! Have either ever worn a uniform for their country? We are standing in the firing zone of a civil war in Iraq where all sides can only agree on one thing- they all hate us. Let’s back off to bases in Iraq and let the religious factions have their inevitable slug fest while we carefully relocate out. Now there’s a plan Bubble head.

By ARTC

May 11, 2007 12:27 PM | Link to this

Don’t you all know that freedom of speech only applies to Dusty and others of her ilk? i.e. right wing lunatics. How dare anyone to the left of Adolph Hitler have something to say. Especially when it is critical of their lord and master, GWB.

By Big Daddy

May 11, 2007 12:31 PM | Link to this

I am so proud of the overwhelming majority of you on this page who have shown intelligence and wisdom about this war. Newkid, you really broke it down in a calm, nonpartisan, brilliant way, and if the bottom 30% (the Bushies come hell or high water) would just wake up, we could take our country back.

By Okay

May 11, 2007 12:33 PM | Link to this

So Mark, based on your logic, if I feel you are a threat to me and my family with no evidence of being able to follow through with that threat, can I come invade you home without any repercussion? Sounds like something out of Minority Report to me. I honestly feel that any real threat to this country is already on US soil unfortunately, like those guys who had planned to attack that base in NJ and the fools who flew the planes on 9/11. Now that’s the scary thing. We are over there wasting billion upon billions of dollars and human life when I think we are just adding fuel to the flame of Western and Muslim relations.

By Stewart

May 11, 2007 12:34 PM | Link to this

Rebecca,

The Germans did not have anything to do with Pearl Harbor either. Do a little research and you will find that Iraq had a connection with the 1993 WTC bombing, the USS Cole, etc. If you don’t understand pre-emption. That’s ok! Do you remember Bosnia? Did they attack the US. Quit being so simple minded. If you’re Democratic leaders in Congress really believed this bull crap they would have voted against war-funding in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. The “Bush Lied People Died” stickers were out prior to the 2004 election. Why did Hillary and 90% of the rest of the Democrats in congress continue to vote for funding? As much as I think Howard Dean is looney and wrong, at least he has been consistent.

By Stewart

May 11, 2007 12:45 PM | Link to this

Okay,

It’s your logic that is flawed. Terrorists and non-US citizens are not protected under the US constitution. So not sure why you would mention the Minority Report.

Let me ask you. If a child molester moves into your neighborhood. (Oh and hypothetically you have two beautiful children). Do you wait until they do something evil before you act?

We have always spent billions of dollars in forward projection of military forces (US Navy, bases overseas, etc.), so your premise that we should only fight our enemies here makes no sense. Prior to 1993, we had never been attacked on American soil.

By Okay

May 11, 2007 12:48 PM | Link to this

How do we stop terrorism? These terrorist don’t wear uniforms and most are born and raised to die for their cause. This war isn’t going to take many years to win, it will never be won unless you kill everyone that doesn’t agree with the United States. What happened to the war on drugs? This is going to become the same thing, a great idea in theory, but not really plausible.

By ARTC

May 11, 2007 12:52 PM | Link to this

Keep drinking the neo-con koolaid Mark!

By Good grief...

May 11, 2007 12:55 PM | Link to this

Stew

Check out Wiki or read a history book sometime. Germany declared war on the United States after Peal Harbor and their U-boats attacked and sank US shipping.

Please share your research on Iraw being involved with the 1993 WTC bombing or the US Cole. Does any exist or have you been Hannitized?

RPG

By RUSURE

May 11, 2007 12:58 PM | Link to this

I’m sick of the WMD argument. The Dems had the same evidence as the Republicans. It is easy now for both sides to blame GWB, but he at least had the balls to pull the trigger, unlike Clinton. If Sadam had WMD, would he use them. YES!!! I believe that this administration underestimated the resistance that is left, but do any of you folks understand that what is going on Iraq is terrorist factions trying to gain control of the state? The U.S. is trying to prevent that from happening. The war is bad, but it is being fought over there on their soil. In essence, the same type of people who are responsible for 9-11 are the same type of people that we are fighting in Iraq. And if you think that Osama Bin Laden is not involved over there, directly or indirectly, then you are really drinking some Kool Aid. Now you can say this about Sadam, he controlled those groups we are fighting now, usually by genocide. So how do you explain how how these groups are getting access to weapons??? Terrorist factions — with only one sworn aim in mind, Destroy the United States of America.

I don’t agree with everything GWB has done. I consider myself to be an independent thinker. But if you pull out party allegiance and think for yourself, then I think it is fairly simple to see what is going on other there.

Yes, the President could pull everyone out — don’t you think he cares about people think of him. But he is more interested in doing what he sees is the best for this country. Some well-meaning people have different ideas what is best, and that can be debated, but to have the animosity that both groups demonstrate hurts our efforts — just ask the troops.

By Marc

May 11, 2007 1:01 PM | Link to this

Regardless of where you stand on the Iraq war, it has nothing to do with terrorism except that it creates more terrorism.

By Erik

May 11, 2007 1:02 PM | Link to this

Sonny is Vice Presidential material? Vice President of the Mayberry Savings & Loan maybe…but that’s about it. That has to be the SILLIEST thing I’ve heard all week. Thanks for the giggle though.

By Okay

May 11, 2007 1:05 PM | Link to this

Well, if I had 2 beautiful children and a molester moved into my neighborhood, then I would check the laws of that state to see what it said about convicted child molester living in proximity of child. If he/she is in direct violation to that, I would call the police. If he/she was not in violation, there is nothing that I can legally do. I know the Minority Report comment was pushing it. Just because we as a country have done things one way in the past, does that mean it will still work? The more and more the USA butts into other peoples business forcing their ideas and philosophies on people, the more and more people will hate us until they have just had enough and join forces to destroy us. Since you what to bring up the past, what happened to Rome And Greece? It’s history repeats itself, we are the next super power to fall.

By Lynn

May 11, 2007 1:15 PM | Link to this

Governor Perdue should have said, The President was protecting American Interest and his friends. Big Corporations that benefit from the War and the Oil that is over in Iraq. This is not a war but a genocide to protest our interest. It’s against the Geneva convention to attack a country that has not attacked us. So Governor Perdue you need to read, know history and support people who support our citizens.

By Mike

May 11, 2007 1:16 PM | Link to this

This is news? What a lame attempt at a “gotcha”.

I can’t wait for this rag to go out of business.

By vdavis

May 11, 2007 1:16 PM | Link to this

w. did not chose war???well who did,he’s the commander in chief isn’t he? as far as i can remember the congress of the united states has yet to decree a declaration of war in this war on terror…the only thing i can think of about this war being in the interest of national security is the flowing of oil from the middle east and even that(gasoline)is now near all-time highs…with the majority of our oil coming from canada,i don’t understand the panick in the world markets everytime opec& the middle eastern countries have any type of incident which causes the price of oil to increase…maybe the oil companies are playing on our fears of oil running out soon and are profiteering off of the instablity…

By Mark

May 11, 2007 1:18 PM | Link to this

ARTC, I am afraid it is people like you that are drinking the Kool Aid. You need to put your emotions aside, forget your personal hatred for George Bush, forget about the lost election of 2000, forget about the short term political victory that your political party needs so badly, and face the simple facts. There is no way that we will ever be able to make meaningful progress in the Middle east with tyrants like Saddam in power. I am not someone who feels that the war will begin and end in Iraq, nor Afghanistan for that matter. It is absolutely delusional to think that all we had to do was stay in Afghanistan and clean up the Taliban, and voila! Islamic fascism is over with. I have a long, laundry list of complaints that I have against George Bush and many other Republicans that I will gladly articulate. Your attempts to confine my argument to the tired old “neocon koolaid” nonsense is no surprise to me. It is what liberals like you do in order to avoid facing reality and making an articulate argument. I am willing to deal with reality. Clearly, you are not.

By Okay

May 11, 2007 1:22 PM | Link to this

Marc, I agree with you that the war is causing more terrorism. The war is a very easy recruiting tool for terrorists. They look at this war and say that the US is at war with Muslims. That’s all they need to hear because as I said in an earlier post, they will die for their cause, which in this case is their religion. They are taught that they have a first class ticket to heaven (or whatever they called their similar afterlife) if they die in the name of their religious beliefs. How the HELL to you combat that???

By Mark

May 11, 2007 1:23 PM | Link to this

Okay, if the majority of Americans share your way of thinking, then the USA does not stand a chance. We are utterly screwed if that is the case.

By Tim

May 11, 2007 1:23 PM | Link to this

It never fails, politicians continue to prove my dad right time after time. As a senior in High school, I had several recruiters call my house asking me to join up. I asked my dad his opinion of it. My dad was a Vietnam Veteran. He told me that I could do what I wanted to, but he advised me NOT to join up. I thought this was very strange coming from someone who supported the Military as strongly as he did, until he gave me the reason. My father told me:

“Son, the reason that I don’t want you to join the Army is because the Politicians of this country will put you in places, and then NOT SUPPORT YOU and give you the things you need to win”

This was in 1992.

I am mad at both parties. Sit your differences aside and GIVE OUR TROOPS A BLANK CHECK! LET THEM DO WHAT THEY NEED TO WIN!

I do believe that we are doing good things over there.

By jim

May 11, 2007 1:25 PM | Link to this

Anybody who listened to Bush and the neo-cons prior to the 2000 election knew that one of their top priorities was to eliminate means by any means, legitimate or otherwise. They considered his being in office an insult to the United States (some were quite harsh in their treatment for Bush Sr. for that reason). I never had any doubt that we would be at war in Iraq before his first term ended. That is why the excuses for the war all proved to be false when fully investigated after the fact (e.g. WMDs and the Iraq-al Qaida connection). For Sonny to say he had no choice is a frightening comment on Sonny. I hope he is more careful about what he says and does for the State of Georgia than he was in his comments on the war.

By Jay

May 11, 2007 1:26 PM | Link to this

Saying that being in Iraq creates more terrorists, is like saying gay marriage creates more gays…it doesn’t…they are presenting themselves in a more open fashion

By Oh the Humanity

May 11, 2007 1:27 PM | Link to this

Nice way to spend 500 billion dollars isn’t it Sonny???????? On a FAKE war.

As we SIT IN TRAFFIC….

And Health Care gets CUT!!!…..Sonny, you got embarrassed and rejected when you asked Bush for a measley 140 million for PEACHCARE kids !!!!

And education gets cut back….

……OH THE INSANITY…………

By Okay

May 11, 2007 1:28 PM | Link to this

What progress are we trying to make in the Middle East? Let them kill each other if that’s what they want to do. Why do we have to send our troops over there to get involved in a civil war where both sides hate us? Can somebody answer that for me please?

By mark2

May 11, 2007 1:29 PM | Link to this

Sonny’s only spouting off in favor of Iraq because his pollsters tell him it’s a popular position to take in this state full of kool-aid drinking Republicans. If Sonny’s polsters told him 51% of Georgians thought the sky was orange, you’d have Sonny talking up how the sky is orange and anyone who think’s it’s blue should shut up. Sonny has no courage or leadership ability and only says what he thinks the majority of his constituents want to hear.

Sonny fit to be vice president of anything is a joke. Gave me a good laugh, though.

By Okay

May 11, 2007 1:30 PM | Link to this

We are utterly screwed even if no one else in America shares my view.

By hardy harhar

May 11, 2007 1:32 PM | Link to this

Perdoofus for vice president? Of the USA? Come on you guys, SOBER UP.

By Mark

May 11, 2007 1:33 PM | Link to this

What amazes me is that Liberals are so obsessed with bringing the troops home out of Iraq, but the never indicate where they want to send the troops afterward. Not fighting the war on terror in the year 2007 sure as hell is not an option, but astonishingly, the Democrats have concluded that the war is unwinnable and the best way to fight is to come back home and go back to playing defense. Any of you liberals here please correct me if I am wrong. Please tell me how Pelosi and Obama plan to aggressively fight and win the war against islamic fascism, because to date, I have heard no plan whatsoever from anyone in that camp on what to do or where to go once they successfully pull our troops from Iraq and win their little short term political victory.

By Mark

May 11, 2007 1:37 PM | Link to this

Okay, because it is exactly that environment of hopelessness, terror, and death which we were introduced to on 9/11. Allowing them to go an killing each other (and others, on occasion) is absolutely unacceptable in the 21st century. The civilized world has an obligation to insist by whatever means necessary that these people stop killing each other. Again, it is that whole “reality” thing that is so hard to deal with. I suggest that you aquaint yourself with it.

By Okay

May 11, 2007 1:40 PM | Link to this

People keep asking what ideas the anti-war people have to win this war. Simple answer: THERE IS NO WINNING IN THIS PARTICULAR WAR! Do you people honestly think that you are going to kill every terrorist or change their minds? If so, you are really delusional. How are we going to get rid of all the terrorist, when we can’t even find terrorist #1, Osama? It’s been close to 6 years now.

By Michelle

May 11, 2007 1:44 PM | Link to this

How did the President “protect America?” I wasn’t aware that Iraq attacked the United States, or that Osama Bin Laden had been caught, or that the attacks on the World Trade Center had been successfully diverted.

By msteven

May 11, 2007 1:44 PM | Link to this

I tell yall what first, I am not a fan of Bush. However, as a former active duty military soldier I sworn to obey the commander in chief. I didnt always agree(as today) but that is what I took an oath to do as well as defend the constitution of the usa. As when I was a soldier, many times I hated my commanders. But I obeyed them. Several I OUT Lasted Meaning change of command(ers).This is how I saw it then and the way I see it now. It aint Bush who is on his way out I am concerned about. Its the New Joker that steps in his HUGE Shoes and all the crap he left unfinished who I am concerned about.and everyone on here bellie aching about Bush needs to get your head out the damn sand and be Very Afraid and Worried about the New Person leading this country. Eazy for myself,and all of you to complain and say freedom of speech. ok. no problem. But I would love to see some of you walk One day in the Presidents shoes. Like I said, you need to be worried about who is going to Step in the white house and take over,rather the a man the will be History in a yr or so. Think about it. What if we have someone step in that is even more clueless in how to get us out of the situation then bush? Then you all will be on here Bashing them the same way. I am going be right here to Remind you too! mark my words when the new president steps in and you all get the bellie aching I will surely remind you how much you whined and cried about Bush. Cant wait for the new president and hear yall whinning and boo hooing again. sheesh..cry babies.

By Craig

May 11, 2007 1:47 PM | Link to this

newkid, that was brilliant

By gttim

May 11, 2007 1:47 PM | Link to this

After: “Amen SICEM – I’ll never forget that day when Saddam Hussein flew them planes into our buildings. Haven’t been that scared since 1975, when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.”

Stewart writes: “I have seen some pretty stupid statements on this board by whacked out liberal bed wetters. But what is your point?”

Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.

Wingnuts tend to be so clueless!

By Julian Lee

May 11, 2007 1:48 PM | Link to this

Hey Perdue, everyone who has proposed a different way in Iraq has been labeled as either anti-patrotic or traitor by the nits and twits in DC who don’t understand that “support the troops” means train fully, equip fully, and let the generals run the war. Otherwise, keep the troops out of stupid wars! Oh yeah, this is STILL a free country, so I will speak out and identify fools and idiots when and how I please!

By John

May 11, 2007 1:49 PM | Link to this

Sonny Perdue’s in lala land just like Bush and Cheney. Bush did start this war and it was not ot protect America which is the biggest lie still being told. He said if someboby had a better idea give it or shut their mouth, but everytime somebody gives a better idea Bush and the GOP get hard headed and won’t listen. If it were up to them we will be in Iraq till all U.S soldiers or dead and the country is completly broke. Thats staying the course for Bush,Sonny,and the GOP.

By Okay

May 11, 2007 1:50 PM | Link to this

That’s exactly the problem most people have with the US, we always feel that we have an obligation to stick our noses in other peoples business. If we are so concerned about preemptive strikes, why haven’t we invaded North Korea, because they seem to be more of an immediate threat then Iraq. Didn’t they just show us that they came produce nuclear weapons? Bush Jr. just wanted to finish what his father started and got this country into a bunch of bull. So don’t talk to me protecting this country before something else happens, because I seriously doubt that was Bush’s main reason.

By Darrell Brantley

May 11, 2007 1:50 PM | Link to this

Purdue is as much a dumb* as Bush. People like them should have to live in theocratic society such as Iran.

By Craig

May 11, 2007 1:52 PM | Link to this

Oh please let it be true. Sonny as a candidate for Vice President. What a gift to the Democrats that would be!

By JJfighter

May 11, 2007 1:53 PM | Link to this

SP - Perhaps you should try reading the exchange again. I mentioned several times the fact that people have a right to their own opinions. I will however respond to insults in any fashion I choose to. I’m certain I’ve earned that right. If you assume or “draw the illogical conclusion” that my intellect should be called into question, then perhaps it is you that should try opening your mind a bit. Simply put, elegant prose does not nessecarily equate to intellect and you certainly didn’t impress me with your admonisment.

By Mark

May 11, 2007 1:54 PM | Link to this

Okay, I and others simply do not share your pessimism. I do not believe that Arabs are inherently evil beings that cannot help themselves from killing each other. All the death and mayhem is a direct result of the corrupt and tyrannical governments that have always been in power in the Middle East. Hopelessness and misery is very contagious, particularly when flamed by a group of organized religious zealots. It is the culture of hopelessness that must be changed. In order to do that, governments certainly must fall. Once many decades have gone by, with Middle Easterners enjoying lives of moderation, progressivism, and not worrying about getting blown to shreds when they leave their homes, we will have won.

By Brian

May 11, 2007 1:55 PM | Link to this

What a jerk!

By Okay

May 11, 2007 1:59 PM | Link to this

msteven, I understand your position, but regardless if Bush somehow got more terms in office or we got another president, this war is unfinishable. Why doesn’t anybody understand that? Since you were or still are in the military, do you see America winning the war on terror? Don’t get me wrong, I understand that it would not look good pulling at before the war is “won”, but why keep our soldiers over there to die when we have no clear plan. Hell, we went to war with no clear plan. So don’t blame the next president for not being able to finish George’s mess. And yes, the next president does have some big shoes to fill, some clown shoes. America is full of a bunch of cowboys who are trigger happy.

By Alex Patrick Joyner

May 11, 2007 2:02 PM | Link to this

Just another lemming. Perdue’s still living in 2004.

By mmk

May 11, 2007 2:05 PM | Link to this

” … the President did not chose the war…” Perdue said, Bush did chose to attack Iraq, left the unfinished war in Afghanistan, from where the 9/11 attack originated, and rushed troops to Iraq , Iraq has been his obsession with no valid proofs. Now we have 2 fronts to fight with no end in sight, all in chaos, the whole world knows that.Gradually having the Iraqui Govt.taking responsibility is the answer so we can get out of there with some dignity ; patience is running out , not to mention billions !!

By will c

May 11, 2007 2:06 PM | Link to this

All governors are candidates for vice-president or president. This isn’t news. It just gives the media something to talk about. Better yet,talk about the tax cut that the governor refused to sign. Give the people some of their money back Gov. Perdue.

RICH GUYS TROPHY WIFE SPEED DATING

By Okay

May 11, 2007 2:07 PM | Link to this

I don’t think that Arabs are evil either. So what if people in other countries think our government is corrupt and come over here and attack us, not because they want to hurt Americans, but bring down our government and turn our country into how they feel it should be? Is that really any different from what we are doing? We are just trying to liberate Middle Easterners, right?

By CJ

May 11, 2007 2:10 PM | Link to this

So Perdue doesn’t believe in freedom of speech? That explains a lot! What was Bush protecting us from? Terrrrrists? “Mission Accomplished!”

By Dan

May 11, 2007 2:12 PM | Link to this

You crazy democrats. You just don’t get it. The reason we are in Iraq is to “protect america”. What? You don’t think that the terrorists have the power to attack us on our home field. You better think again. They did it on 9/11 and they can do it again. The terrorists have said that they want to hurt and destroy americans. They said that we are a weak country and that we will pull out of the war, and when we do they, the terrorists are going to hit us hard. When a democrat gets nominated as our next president, and they probably will, the first thing they will do is pull our troops out of Iraq (against their will. Remember. These people voluntariy signed up to be in our armed forces knowing they may go to war), and then the terrorists have won. Then they will have all of Iraq to finish what they started on 9/11. You better think real hard about whose side you are on. Ours or theirs. Have a little support for your country. It’s not like you are the ones over ther fighting for our freedom!!

By Vladimir Perdue

May 11, 2007 2:13 PM | Link to this

Sonny lies about enforcing the citizens of GA’s rights to vote on the ‘56 flag. Sonny gets bolder and says he won’t allow GA citizens to vote on Sunday sales because it’s against his religious principles. Then he gets even bolder and tells GA citizens who exercise the freedom of speech and disagree with him to “…shut up.” Nice. Who keeps voting for this idiot? People not originally from GA, I bet.

By kitty

May 11, 2007 2:16 PM | Link to this

Perdue needs to go back to tending his chickens. And, I for one will exercise my free speech: ” I don’t care for the war in Iraq.”

By Kevin

May 11, 2007 2:18 PM | Link to this

Governor, let’s get something straight…YOU work for the PEOPLE, including those of us who disagree with you, so you don’t tell us to be quiet.

Your party’s leaders led us into this disastrous war in Iraq which has accomplished nothing other than to replace a two-bit dictator with an unstable, lawless country of warring factions.

We should be focused on Afghanistan like we were right after 9/11/01, crushing the Taliban and capturing Osama bin Laden.

By Craig

May 11, 2007 2:21 PM | Link to this

After looking at this year’s legislative debacle, I don’t think Sonny has any room to tell anyone else to shut up. Perhaps we can apply Sonny’s logic to his veto, un-veto, re-veto, uber-veto, etc. No one chose incompetency to lead state government but somehow we wound up with it.

Sonny, free consulting advice….stay out of national politics and handle your own screwups here in GA. I hear some grumbling will be in store for you in Duluth next weekend.

By David

May 11, 2007 2:24 PM | Link to this

Bush has beeen given plenty of alternatives from the military, the Iraq study group, from members of Congress, and the international community. He has ignored them all. This is his war and his mess. There is niothing wrong with the American people and their representatives holding him accountable for his failed policies. Sonny Perdue should be ashamed of himself for letting blind partisian ship getting in the way of what is right for the country and the soliders who serve it.

By jc

May 11, 2007 2:24 PM | Link to this

Sonny? One heartbeat from the presidency? The idea of this bumbling hick being one step away from holding the most powerful position in the world makes me either want to laugh out loud, or be very, very scared. What a joke. I guess perhaps someone like Giuliani figures he can win the red state rednecks over by having a bumpkin like Perdue on the ticket. His thoughts on Iraq are shallow meaningless.

By Okay

May 11, 2007 2:28 PM | Link to this

Terrorists could care less if we pulled out of the war. They probably want us to stay in war as long as possible so we lose more of our brave soldiers, so that our military forces are extremely crippled and we are out of money to fund a war. What the hell are we going to do then? As far as soldiers, of course they will bring back the draft, but what will that matter if the country is broke?

By ajazzy1

May 11, 2007 2:35 PM | Link to this

Maybe our idiot Governor should shut up! He’s just another “wave the flag Republican” who refuses the truth over partisan politics. No one is stupid enough to be fooled anymore about a war that is so far from protecting our nation and much closer to protecting our nation’s oil interests. At least be honest about that!

By Chick Dante'

May 11, 2007 2:39 PM | Link to this

“The president did not choose war.”

What is wrong with these people, like Sonny Perdue, who just say whatever. Forget the fact that Bush, in fact, did choose the war and then sold it like a bad used car to the American people. Forget that only 28% of Americans support the Liar In chief. Forget that there was no threat from Iraq, no Al Quaeda, no mushroom clouds, no plan for post wartime, death, destruction, humanitarian crises. Irrelevant. No, just say “he didn’t choose the war” and the base will nod approvingly.

Hit ‘em with a brick, and still they support the Fuhrer. What’s wrong with these people?

By WTF

May 11, 2007 2:39 PM | Link to this

“until you’ve got a better idea, keep your mouth shut.”

Ok, so besides really being beneath the dignity of a sitting Governor to make such a silly schoolyard statement, Mr. Purdue’s comment doesn’t even hold up to the facts. Both houses of Congress passed a bill setting benchmarks for withdrawal from Iraq. While there are certainly some who, with good reason, do not like that approach, it is an “idea”, but one that the President vetoed. It appears that Mr. Purdue, like the President, only thinks that “ideas” have merit if they are his. Without taking sides on the issue of what to do about Iraq, I would say that the Governor, and the President for that matter, may want to pay attention to the fact that a clear and strong majority of Americans now favor withdrawal from Iraq. That may not be an “idea” that they like, but I seem to recall learning in 8th grade civics class that our elected officials are there to represent the people, not tell them how it’s going to be.

By dave

May 11, 2007 2:40 PM | Link to this

Tell me again exactly what the President was protecting us from when we attacked Iraq in 2003. If I recall, the ones responsible for 9/11 were in Afghanistan.

By wow

May 11, 2007 2:40 PM | Link to this

THAT’s what Sonny did?

By WTF

May 11, 2007 2:44 PM | Link to this

one more thing….with regard to the Governor saying that the President did not “choose” this war. Does he live under a rock?! How many former Bush Administration officials have to come out and say that the President, Vice President, and Rumsfeld were itching for this war since the day they took office? The facts do not support the pie-in-the-sky view that some people have with regard to Bush but they just keep on keeping on believing don’t they?

By ToDan

May 11, 2007 2:49 PM | Link to this

Dan, if your’e so gung-ho for this war, go sign up. I hear they need more recruits! Or does your patriotism not go that far?

By Ted P

May 11, 2007 2:50 PM | Link to this

I can’t believe that people say “Bush started the war”; No, 535 people in the congress and senate agreed to start a war. That is an undisputed fact, so thank the 535 people that gave the American military the permission to start the war, remember that includes the democrats too. Anybody that thinks that a President on there own can start a war does not understand government or how it works. With a little education the Bush haters would have to find a different cause. But education is not on the liberal agenda. You can’t control educated individuals, only illiterate crowd followers can be lead by the socialist, I mean the liberal democratic party.

By anonymous loller

May 11, 2007 2:51 PM | Link to this

LOL at people taking the Germans bombing Pearl Harbor comment so seriously. That was tongue in cheek. That’s a Jim Belushi quote from the movie Animal House: “Over? Did you say ‘over’?’ he says. ‘Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!”.

By tracy

May 11, 2007 2:54 PM | Link to this

Do Perdue understand that we really had no reason to be in this war it was all a lie? NO, NO, NO, weapons of mass destruction was ever found.We still have’nt found Osama who actully atacked the US.But you know what I actualy beleive the GOV knows where he’s at but to justify staying longer in Iraq the GOV will not reveal anything.I say send in the love ones and family members of Perdue and Bush’s and all the others who beleive in this war and then see how they feel

By Non bandwagoner

May 11, 2007 2:55 PM | Link to this

I commend Sonny for his comments, he is completely accurate. we the people are getting our facts on the war from biased news outlets and making judgement, And the vote seeking Democrats are jumping on the popular opinion bandwagon, knowing that pulling out is a death sentence to our country. So as Sonny says UNLESS YOU”VE GOT A BETTER IDEA, KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT!!!

By Sophie

May 11, 2007 2:55 PM | Link to this

Way to go Gov. Perdue!! You have my vote. The Democrats have no creative ideas of how to do anything, and particularly in Iraq. All they are trying to do is get themselves re-elected and bash President Bush at every little opportunity. I hope you are selected and will accept the Republican vice presidential candidacy. You’ve done so many great things for Georgia, and I’d like to see you do the same for the rest of the U.S.

By Honolulu

May 11, 2007 2:55 PM | Link to this

You liberals are cowards. Period. Yeah, terrorism never reached into Iraq. How do I know? Because we didn’t find any books that said so! That should prove it. Wimps. What if we rights asked for a solution, what would you say? Pull out. Run. Give up. And wait for them to come again. Oh yeah, before you say “don’t call me names” - we’ll say they’re descriptive phrases. Gutless whiny cowards.

By Sonnywho?

May 11, 2007 2:56 PM | Link to this

How about Sonny Perdue for governor of Diyala province?

By bushhater

May 11, 2007 2:57 PM | Link to this

There was no reason in fighting this war he was not protecting our country at all because there was no nuclear weapons found. He has just a put a country that was ok and made it hell. The Iraqi people have said that they were happier with Saddam in power

By skewedpos

May 11, 2007 2:59 PM | Link to this

“The president did not choose war. The president chose to protect the United States of America, and he did,” Perdue said.

Bullsear, Catnip!

Smiley is a freakin’ idiot. And … the conservatives won’t have him after the veto do-over bs, anyway.

By Levon

May 11, 2007 2:59 PM | Link to this

YOU SHUT UP! NO! YOU SHUT UP!NO! YOU SHUT UP!

By anti-authoritarian

May 11, 2007 2:59 PM | Link to this

Anyone ever notice what crybaby bedwetting pansies right wingers are? Every last one of them is willing to give up their civil rights to a moron like W, starting with their right to freedom of speech (here’s a clue for for the trogs: it’s the 1st amendment probably because the founding fathers probably thought it was the most important!) The war is OVER. We won. Kinda like kicking over a bed of fire ants. If we just leave they’ll put it back together. That said, if we get off our OIL addiction, we can tell that whole effete bed-sheet wearing, terror sponsoring, Jew hating nation of Saudi Arabia to take a flying f’ing leap.

By Sophie

May 11, 2007 3:01 PM | Link to this

To bdf and your statement that “W” is perhaps the most stubborn, idiotic, worthless leader that this country has ever had”. You need look no further than Jimmy Carter, who is the biggest embarrassment to the state of Georgia. He did absolutely nothing during his tenure as president. Now that’s the definition of a worthless leader. BTW, Carter still hasn’t accepted his second term bid loss and keeps embarrassing himself and Georgia.

By bordoni

May 11, 2007 3:04 PM | Link to this

I think ol’ Sonny has a great idea. Just wrap yourself around ol’ W. After all, just 28 percent of the nation approves of the guy. The more Republicans who go down with Georgie Boy, the better. He’s the modern equivalent of Herbert Hoover. The Republicans will be paying the price for his horrible presidency for a generation. The GOP is a sick and damaged party, but apparently, it’s going to take some time in the wilderness for sensible people to throw guys like Guvnor Sonny off the train.

By KB

May 11, 2007 3:10 PM | Link to this

I guess Iraq is not on the “Sonny Do” List??

By Jerry

May 11, 2007 3:10 PM | Link to this

God help the USA if Sonny attemps a VP bid in 08. He can’t run Georgia let alone the entire country. This makes me proud to be a Democrat.

By Ted P

May 11, 2007 3:12 PM | Link to this

We are that last 1 party system in the world that is not called a dictatorship. If you think that the republicans and democrats are different, you are lost. We need a new party, VOTE LIBRITARIAN

By Mark

May 11, 2007 3:15 PM | Link to this

At the end of the day, all that can really be said about liberals is that they are simply wrong. People on the right generally list ways of defending our nation. People on the left list reasons why America shouldn’t or can’t defend itself. At the beginning of the war, it was “Saddam didn’t attack us, we have no right”. A few years later, it was “there is a civil war in Iraq, we need to leave”. Now, it is “the war on terror is unwinnable”. Democrats have consistently undermined every step that has been taken against Islamic fascism in the past 6 years. Short-term political victory is what is at stake here. To you democrats here on the board: just know that it is most likely that your Democratic leaders do not really believe what they are feeding you. They would (I hope) be far too smart for that. Just remember that you all are merely pawns in the fight to get a bunch of liberal elites back in power. You are all just simply wrong.

By Muse

May 11, 2007 3:16 PM | Link to this

“Shut up” about Iraq? Right, we the American people will make sure never to voice our displeasure with poor government decisions again.

Oh wait, this isn’t Stalinist Russia.

By HPE

May 11, 2007 3:16 PM | Link to this

Excuse me…I think Democrats and some smart republicans do have a solution for Iraq that they’ve been articulating. Perhaps the governor hasn’t heard….

GET OUT!!!!!!!!!

By anonymous loller

May 11, 2007 3:16 PM | Link to this

Hey Honolulu,

I think that The Hairclub for Men is broadcasting rays from secret installations causing my hair to fall out. I’m going to sue. Should be ok, right, being that I don’t need any evidence and all?

By WTF

May 11, 2007 3:16 PM | Link to this

Ted P - You actually make some very good points about Congress approving the war. But..then you get into the liberal Democrat = socialist stuff. That’s as constructive as the liberals who go off calling Republicans fascists. Neither analogy works for anyone who knows anything about socialism or fascism.

Sophie - The US Army is happy to accept female enlistees these days in case you weren’t aware and I’m sure would benefit from the services of someone as deeply patriotic as you. I would also encourage you to do some research and about the really wonderful work done by President Carter to help the world’s needy and then criticize this good Christian man for putting his faith into practice.

Non Bandwagoner - As I stated earlier, the elected representatives of the American people in the US Congress (which in case you’re not clear is a CO-EQUAL branch of government along with the Executive Branch and the Judiciary)did present an alternative idea yet it was rejected outright by the President. You may not have thought it was “better” but it is supported by the majority of the American people. But I will digress on that and ask you…What is your “beter idea”?? Clearly what’s being done isn’t working, so what would YOU suggest be done since you think you know better than the Congress and the majority of your fellow citizens? I would be curious to hear.

By John

May 11, 2007 3:23 PM | Link to this

Seems to me NO ONE has come up with a viable solution…Sonny just may be right!

By B. Thenet

May 11, 2007 3:23 PM | Link to this

Sonny is a pretty decent governor for a GOPer, and he does done a good job for Georgia, but he needs to shut his mouth when it comes to foriegn policy because he is clueless.

If he gets the #2 slot on the GOP ticket, they will lose the election. Of course the more he pops off on foriegn policy in the media, the less likely he gets asked to be VP in the first place.

It hard to tell if some of the “right wingers” here are being serious, or if they are doing very good impressions of Stephen Colbert.

By Kevin

May 11, 2007 3:24 PM | Link to this

You’ve got to be kidding me another chicken hawk chimes in on Iraq. The Democrats have said what to do with Iraq. GET OUT!

Fighting in Iraq is not making us safer it was an optional war because Iraq was contained. No doubt Iraq was about oil and getting as many US bases established in the Mid East to protect that oil.

Everyone predicts that it will get worse in Iraq if the US leaves. Just like everyone predicted that Iraq had WMDs, right? The bloodletting will happen if the US is there or not, but at least if we leave the lives of the few brave Americans that are paying the price for this failed policy will be saved.

Now had we spent $500MMM on killing Bin Laden, defending our borders and developing alternate energy sources we would be much safer right now.

By JD

May 11, 2007 3:30 PM | Link to this

Dan said, “You crazy democrats. You just don’t get it. The reason we are in Iraq is to “protect america”. What? You don’t think that the terrorists have the power to attack us on our home field.”

We need our troops here to protect our southern most border. We are being infiltrated by a force larger than the fanatics in the Middle East. They are destroying the jobs of Americans, raping & killing our citizens on our own land. Bring home our troops so they can protect the United States of America. Here is where our priority lies.

By Amy in the ATL

May 11, 2007 3:30 PM | Link to this

I think President Bush and his administration owe the American people an explanation for why they went to such great lengths to sell, yes sell, the invasion of Iraq based on false data and the threat of WMD. Once we get that explanation, perhaps then it will be justified to ask us to let the situation work out. But since the President has put troops in harms way for apparently no good reason, he does need to answer some tough questions. Best thing for Republicans to do is distance themselves from that goofball as fast as they can.

By John

May 11, 2007 3:33 PM | Link to this

The Democrats already control the purse strings on the war…they could GET OUT however they really don’t believe that is the correct answer or they would stop funding and accept the responsibility of that decision. My guess is that will not happen.

By win

May 11, 2007 3:34 PM | Link to this

Anyone who reads knows that 9-11 had nothing to do with IRAQ. 9-11 Commission agreed Iraq was not to blame. 15 of the 19 9-11 hi-jackers were from Saudi Arabia, all 19 Hi-Jackers were financed by Al Qaeda, Ben-Ladden is based in Afghanistan and financed by Arabs mostly from Saudi Arabia. Remember when Bush was running for President prior to entering the White Houes: Bush was asked what the military should be used for and he said to take out a certain dictator. I am sure it was not Tony Blair… Wake up Georgia …READ… BE KNOWLEDGEABLE…DON’T LISTEN TO TALK RADIO…READ THE FACTS….

By domga

May 11, 2007 3:35 PM | Link to this

hmmm georgia’s chief crook telling telling others to shut up about our national crook… birds of a feather do flock together..dang

By Ted P

May 11, 2007 3:36 PM | Link to this

WTF, if you don’t think that liberal democrats aren’t leaning towards socialism then you may need to look up the definition of socialism and then look at what Pelosi and Clinton are advocating.

By gregoratl

May 11, 2007 3:40 PM | Link to this

First, Gov. Perdue vetoed tax relief for Georgia homeowners, now he’s telling Georgians who value free speech to “shut up.”

It seems clear that the Governor has no respect or little regard for all of us whether we are liberal, moderate, conservative, Democrat/Republican.

Everyone on this blog should be incensed that your elected leader has told you just “shut up.”

By rc

May 11, 2007 3:43 PM | Link to this

99% of our elected republican leaders are chicken hawks (see Sonny, Saxby, Kingston, etc.) The only one I would trust is Johnny Isakson and unfortunately he’s been hanging around the national repubs too long.

By stamen

May 11, 2007 3:44 PM | Link to this

Democrat here, think we should nuke that tribal region where Osama is. He’s the one behind 9/11. Why did we ever go into Iraq? Huge blunder by a moron. Let’s kick some a* just make sure it’s the right ones. Stop buying the republican talking points that is why Osama is still out there and we are stuck in Iraq. C’mon Georgians stop listening to GOP propoganda.

Purdue, isn’t that a chicken? Bill Bennet, why isn’t he in a program for chronic gamblers. Must be on the payroll.

By realgirl

May 11, 2007 3:44 PM | Link to this

Did not choose war!!! Who is he kidding. Ole Bush Boy LOVES to play war! He succeded in getting Sadaam Hussien assasinated which was his real goal and whoops no proof yet whatsoever or WMD’s or ties to the terriorists that attacked us. It;s all about oil folks and he thinks we are all dumb enough not to see that.

By Okay

May 11, 2007 3:46 PM | Link to this

To the people who are pro war, what’s happens when this world severely cripples our military from death and injury? The draft right? Okay, but what happens when we run out of money and an immediate threat to the US comes about? This war has already cost $500 billion dollars. The reason why nobody has a creative solution to winning this war is because ONE DOES NOT EXIST! It’s not like we can tell who is a terrorist and who is not, so who are we battling?

By yep

May 11, 2007 3:46 PM | Link to this

Another republican has stepped forward and proved that they’re idiots.

By GT

May 11, 2007 3:48 PM | Link to this

Perdue acknowledged that the going in Iraq has been tough. But, he said, “until you’ve got a better idea, keep your mouth shut.”

Only an idiot as big as Sonny couldn’t hear the better idea Americans have been saying the past two years: Get us out of Iraq!

By Keith

May 11, 2007 3:51 PM | Link to this

YEAH!!! And the parents who have lost children in Iraq and those children who have lost parents in Iraq should just SHUT UP ALSO.

Welcome to the police state of america, when it is considered unpatriotic to criticize the government.

By Adam

May 11, 2007 3:52 PM | Link to this

Great job Mr. Governor.

All these damn fools who do not think that our President’s tough decision to fight terrorism and depose Iraq’s dictator has not twarted further attacks on the US, should go live in Spain of France or even the Middle East.

I would certainly support Sonny for VP!

By newkid

May 11, 2007 3:54 PM | Link to this

Win said: “Anyone who reads…” Seems you could be on to something there Win; it seems to have helped me a great deal. But I’m not sure reading is a family value.

By B. Thenet

May 11, 2007 3:56 PM | Link to this

I just love the fact that the GOP refuses to even set goals for what needs to be accomplished before we can leave.

If you don’t set goals or benchmarks, how on earth can you hope to accomplish anything.

And to think some people still believe the GOP stands for responsible government.

By Adam

May 11, 2007 3:56 PM | Link to this

I remember vividly how the entire Country came together after 9-11 to support President Bush and the entire Nation.

I remember people actually thanking our firemen and firewomen as well as our ploice officers. I STILL DO. And each time I see a soldier, either in the airport or elsewhere, I never fail to to tell them how much my family and I thank them for thier sacrifice.

By Joe from Atlanta

May 11, 2007 3:58 PM | Link to this

I’m a Yankee and I’ve never in my life seen such an idiot in public office as Sonny Dogdoo. He speaks like an idiot, looks like an idiot, but scams like a pro. His thinking is so backwards that he would never get elected anywhere in the US but down here in the redneck South where it’s full of the good ole boys. He looks and acts like something off of Hee Haw.

By Bush The Connecticut-Born Cokehead

May 11, 2007 3:59 PM | Link to this

I like this! Total Cokehead Preznit leg-humpers still trying to tie 9/11 to Iraq, even though Ol’ Cokie HIMSELF admitted no ties (of course, after he started his little vendetta war on Iraq). Some people are just dirt-stupid.

By WTF

May 11, 2007 4:04 PM | Link to this

Ted P, I understand where you’re coming from, but I think when people talk about “socialism” they are in no way referring to the active government the Democrats are proponents of. As an example, isn’t public school just one manifestation of “socialism”? Or Medicare? Or Social Security? I think when people refer to “socialism” what they are really thinking of is is communism. Having said that, while I’m a Dem myself, I certainly understand why lots of folks like yourself have turned to the Libertarian party.

By Nut Buster

May 11, 2007 4:05 PM | Link to this

Buin Laden=Iraq? Help me understand..

By Okay

May 11, 2007 4:08 PM | Link to this

John, there was a bill written with a time frame to start pulling out, but Mr. Bush vetoed that, remember?

By liberalextremist

May 11, 2007 4:09 PM | Link to this

Basically, Guvnur Perdoofus was saying “Sh!# or get off the pot!” LOL!

By PW

May 11, 2007 4:10 PM | Link to this

I am knew to the state of Georgia and I can’t believe what I just read about a Governor of a state telling people to shut up! What is this about? How did he get elected twice? Shame on you Governor Perdue!!!

By Mark

May 11, 2007 4:10 PM | Link to this

To the “Cokehead” poster above, your mentality is frightfully widespread throughout the liberal community. The only problem, is that whether there was a link to 9/11 or not doesn’t have jack-s** to do with whether we should leave Iraq in a state of chaos 4 years later. It is 2007, pal. Get up to speed.

And as a general observation, am I to deduce that the current Democratic strategy is to not fight? We cannot win the war, we cannot fight the terrorists because they only will mutliply, so the best way to fight is to not fight at all? Do you all really think this way? God help the United States if anyone with your mentality gets elected. There will be a tombstone out in Nebraska that says “America 1776-2009”. It is absolutely shocking how ignorant people in America are today. Absolutely stunning.

By MrLiberty

May 11, 2007 4:10 PM | Link to this

Yeah I’ve got a better idea Perdufus.

Get out now. The war was illegal, immoral, unconstitutional, based on a lie, and every minute we spend there is just an extension of our heinous war crime.

Perdue is anything but vice-president material. He certainly doesn’t make good governor material.

By prock

May 11, 2007 4:13 PM | Link to this

GOP supporters need to own up to the fact that THEIR people were responsible for 911. It happened on THEIR guard. The GOP has only itself to blame for terrorism and no one else. 911 is just the flase flag op they needed to rob the nation blind while robbing other nations of lives and loot.

By JohnM

May 11, 2007 4:15 PM | Link to this

Hey Sonny Bubba - Why don’t you do us all a favor and shut YOUR damn mouth. You have become the laughing stock of this formerly great state. What really scares me is that some fool even mentioned you as a possible VP. God save us all!

By quake

May 11, 2007 4:16 PM | Link to this

Hey Sonny — Why don’t you go say that crap you’re spewing on a show hosted by someone just a tad less partisan (wait there isn’t) or more of a hypocrite (wait there isn’t.) Wait..you can’t — why? Because no one in their right mind would HAVE you on their show…and if they did, they sure as hell wouldn’t let you run your stupid, ignorant mouth without CHALLENGING you.
It’d be like shooting fish in a barrel. Now THATS an idea that Georgians can get behind!

By DD

May 11, 2007 4:16 PM | Link to this

Purdue: Don’t speak out when our leaders break the law and go to war.

By funny

May 11, 2007 4:16 PM | Link to this

Bush ran for office knowing that if elected he was going to war somewhere!

Sonny for VP? That’s hilarious!! Who in their right mind…oops, I forgot the republicians are not in their right mind. Hahaha!!

By Mark

May 11, 2007 4:18 PM | Link to this

“The GOP has only itself to blame for terrorism and no one else.”

Prock, you are a fool. Just saying.

By Tristan

May 11, 2007 4:19 PM | Link to this

This country is doomed, not by terrorists, but by the diviseness of our government, and the wolf pack mentallity of democrats who smell the blood of our US troops and are herding together to capitulate their annihilation. President Bush(R) is DEFENDING our country, and Sonny(R) is behind him, Thank GOD. It took 8 years of Clinton(D), selling U.S. missile technology to the chinese, and shooting million dollar missiles at empty al-qaida training camps, to prove to our enemy how absurdedly vulnerable we can become. Now the dems want to do it again. GOD HELP US, in the meantime thank GOD for the GOP.

By wh

May 11, 2007 4:23 PM | Link to this

Last time I looked this war was all GW. Doesn’t his crack about “where are those WMD” he made at the Press Corp dinner ring really funny now. I kThere has never been a proven link to Saddam and Al Queada. Clearly it is a safer world since the invasion of Iraq - Ask the Brits and the Spaniards. Also I know that I feel much better and comfortable abouth the shift in the balance of power to the Shiites and Iran. I am just thankful that there have been no domestic terror busts since we went to Iraq as proof that we are so much safer … Oh thats right, this isn’t exactly true. Don’t worry Sonny 28% of the people believe in the President and his myriad successful demonstrated policy initiatives since he took office. His decisive and successful response to national tragedy should also be commended. Somewhere Buchanan is smiling as he is off the hook for the coveted worst President in US history designation.

By Okay

May 11, 2007 4:24 PM | Link to this

The question is directed to the people who support the war: How do you fight terror? Do the terrorist wear uniforms? If not, are we going to go to war with every country? Believe me, terrorist are not only in the Middle East, so saying that we went into Iraq to protect our freedom and fight the war on terror is a bunch of bull. There are terrorist that live right here in America and probably more to come. There are more than likely terrorist setting up shop in Mexico, and you know how easy it is to get here from there. So explain to me again how exactly we fight terror. And no, I have no idea of how we win an unwinable war with people we can’t readily recognize. So I should just shut up huh? So until any of you pro war people can answer these questions, then how about you shut up.

By gregoratl

May 11, 2007 4:25 PM | Link to this

Uh, by the way for all the Bush/Sonny supporters: Bin Laden got away with 9/11. Bush wasn’t strong enough to take care of business. Meanwhile, the terrorists are stronger and our military is weaker due to Bush and the Repub. costly mistakes.

I’m ready for a Democrat who can balance the budget, rebuild our military strength, and restore America’s place in the world.

By B. Thenet

May 11, 2007 4:27 PM | Link to this

14 of the 911 Hijackers were from Saudi Arabia…what has Bush done to protect us from the religious hate mongers(sponsored by the Saudi government) who are doing their best to provide more “martyrs”.

How is the hunt for Osama Bin Laden going? You know, the 911 mastermind, biggest serial killer in the history of the United States. The guy who is NOT in Iraq, and never has been.

To imply that Bush is protecting us by invading a country that was not even involved in 911, and thereby driving even more deranged muslim extremists to want to kill Americans is just plain silly. The fact that he couldn’t even plan for the post-war occupation of the country is just insulting.

By JK

May 11, 2007 4:29 PM | Link to this

“This president did not choose war.”

Yeah Sonny, I know, he really didn’t. It must have been that insidious democratic congressional minority in the fall of ‘02 that drove him to rally for that resolution. We all know how benign and loving republicans are. I’m sure no member of the GOP wanted subject the good people of Iraq to the blitzkrieg that followed. It just… kind of happened that way. Right?

By ~. _ .~

May 11, 2007 4:33 PM | Link to this

Whatever happened to freedom of speech? The Republicans are a disgrace to the United States!

By Herb

May 11, 2007 4:33 PM | Link to this

I just got off the floor after reading Sonny for VP. This guy is as light weight as helium. IRAQ was involved with 9/11, we just turned it into a haven for terrorist. Bush, and Chaney are cowards who did not serve our nation.

By Okay

May 11, 2007 4:34 PM | Link to this

By the way, I don’t classify myself as Democrat, Republican, Liberal or Conservative. I agree with things from each but don’t limit myself to one way of thinking as most people do that have to give themselves a classification. I would like to think of myself as a independent thinker because I take the facts given to me and form my opinion based on that, not because somebody tells me to think that way. But we will see who was right in a few years when many of are military are either injured or dead and we are broke. Now that will be easy pickings for terrorist. This question is not posed to people who are in or served in the military, but to the ones who haven’t but are so gong ho about the war, why don’t you enlist to fight for this cause? If you are too old, how about your children or grandchildren?

By freedomadmin

May 11, 2007 4:37 PM | Link to this

Come on over to The Freedom Forum where we laugh at Republicans like Perdue and Bush everyday! All are welcome!

http://www.forumcityusa.com/index.php?mforum=freedom

By Luv 2 Hate Me

May 11, 2007 4:39 PM | Link to this

Sonny has plenty of good ideas written down on his Sonny Due List. He is the jack of all azzez. If he goes in as Vice President then I might leave the country. Canada is looking very nice right about now.

By DAN

May 11, 2007 4:45 PM | Link to this

Watch and see!!! If and when the democrats take office the world will be more messed up than it is now. They degrade our country and the way it is run, but have no solutions on how to fix it. All of you shut up unless you have a feasible solution to the war in Iraq. Sonny said it perfect. All of you democrats can open your big mouths, but have nothing smart to say. Keep on saying what has been done wrong. It will never solve anything!!

By Mark

May 11, 2007 4:46 PM | Link to this

How do you fight Islamic terror? Here’s how:

First, you establish a realistic portrait of who your enemy is. In this case, it is poor, uneducated, impressionable, hopeless Muslims in the Middle East.

Second, you look for the reasons for the hopelessness experienced by the enemy. In this case, the reasons are political oppression, topped with control by religious fanatics who preach that the free West is the root of all the suffering experienced by the Muslim world, when actually it is their own oppressive governments.

Third, you carefully eliminate, whether through military means or political means if possible, some or all of these oppressive governments that are contributing to this culture of hopelessness, death and violence. You replace (or at least attempt to) these governments with more moderate governments that understand that they have the full, unwavering support of the west.

Fourth, you get realistic about the fact that the shift toward a more progressive and moderate culture within the Middle East will take many years, if not decades. You do not lose your nerve after only 4 years, but instead stand side by side, as partners, with Muslims who want to live in a moderate, progressive society.

Fifth, you give them the moral support that they need. You do not engage in retroactive arguments about the legitimacy or necessity of our actions, but instead, deal with the present, and convince the people in the occupied countries that we will be with them through the trying times that are ahead. Pointless domestic arguments about whether an invaded country should be a part of the war on Islamic terror should be replaced with the sober acknowledgment that this invaded country where all the fighting is going on IS the war on Islamic terror.

Sixth, you work closely with legal authorities in the region, and give them every bit of support they need in establishing a place that is run by the rule of law. Give the local police every bit of authority that they need to go after terrorists, or even would-be terrorists. Send a signal to the country that “if you kill or try to kill, you will pay dearly”.

Last, you do not leave or give up on the fight until people stop mindlessly killing each other. Do not give up until Middle Eastern civilization and culture is a bastion of progressive and moderate ideals, a place where right prevails over wrong, and where people reject death and oppression, and fight for truth and moderation.

By Randy

May 11, 2007 4:50 PM | Link to this

I agree with Elizabeth. The Iraq war is and never was about terrorism. We’ve now spent over 1/2 trillion $ on enriching the cronies of Bush. We can all only dream about the good that kind of money could have been allocated to. I do not have to “shut up” just because some average Governor says I have too. What exactly are Sonny’s ideas to solve the issue?

By Mark

May 11, 2007 4:51 PM | Link to this

Okay, did you support our efforts in Afghanistan?

By MarkP

May 11, 2007 4:53 PM | Link to this

Uhhh… actually I’ve heard plenty of people suggest alternatives to the way President Bush has decided to conduct the war in Iraq, including many of us who thought weought not to start a war there in the first place. Sonny and his like-minded brethren have an automatic rebuttal to any idea that doesn’t involve staying there. And for the clever folks who link Iraq to the war on terror, we could create many more fronts in the war on terror if we choose. We could even bring Kenya into the war on terror if we were to repeat the same actions we’ve taken in Iraq.

By bg

May 11, 2007 4:53 PM | Link to this

There is NO WAR. The war ended four years ago with “the end of major conflict”. If there is no “major conflict”, then there is NO WAR. All that we’re trying to do now is stabilize a region where the residents hate us only slightly less than they hate each other. Please get us the heck out of there.

By Tairi

May 11, 2007 4:54 PM | Link to this

Bush is an idiot.

Sonny is too.

The War is crumby. My brother is fighting for a cause long lost in a line of false promises of connections as false as the financial statements at the Perdue household.

Radical militant republicans have driven us in a course of destruction and a sure pathway towards global isolation by lying to the American public as for the reasons for war. But thats okay, because as long as we buy in to their latest reasoning, we shall continue to spend our tax dollars on a labyrinth of mistakes and misguided reasoning.

Wake up America. Islam is not the problem, hatred is the problem. The same hatred that you have for dem ol’ towel heds who fluw dem playnes intwo the towerz! is the same hatred they have for the fat american populous who would rather watch American idol than vote in local elections. Freedom isnt free, but neither are those text messaging fees that failed poor Sanjaya.

Its not left and right people, its right and wrong. We’ve made wrong decisions. Lets correct ourselves, and actually act like the beacon of hope that we pretend to be. Every American is born with the right to free speech, and that includes Sonny. But many men, much smarter than he have thought of much more enlightened things to say than his little jab comment.

He’s a great candidate for the Vice Presidency. A regular Hawking compared to Cheney. Now if the GOP could find another puppet like W to be maintained by his excellency Perdue…the democratic party would be a lock victory.

Keep your religion out of my dinner table. God may bless your America, but not mine. My children were born free of a ‘loving’ religion that blesses this god-forsaken war every day. If you beleive that an omnipotent God wants death and destruction, and gave our current leaders…such as Sonny to the public as a gift…then you should ask, What would Jesus do?

Not fight a war, my friend. He’d probably use the money to actually fix the problems at home…haha. Wow, what a novel concept.

Rant over.

By dahreese

May 11, 2007 4:56 PM | Link to this

As a Georgian, let me say that Perdue is a joke. A “Republican” joke.

And it’s not that Georgians would not vote better, just neither political party put up anybody worth voting for during the last governor’s election.

You don’t have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.

By Dave

May 11, 2007 4:58 PM | Link to this

Outstanding comments from Gov. Sonny Perdue! He hit the nail on the head.

By Josh

May 11, 2007 5:00 PM | Link to this

First off, I want to get some of these comments retracted by saying if you did not vote, which I know there are some, you have no right to say anything for or agaisnt the war in Iraq, Bush or Perdue. You know who you are. Second of all, We are defending our country!! Do not forget we were the ones who were attacked!! It is about fighting them there, including in Iraq and yes Afghanistan!! We have troop at both locations looking for terroists in Iraq and Bin Laden. I have family at both locations and they know the truth. Not the false truth that is put on the media each day to meet their materail to drive ratings. Believe it or not we are winning this war and making progress you just do not know because the media does not show it. If they showed that their ratings would not go up. That is why they show what they want to show!! They are about ratings!! My best friend’s brother has been in Afghanistan for 3 years deactivating all the bombs that the taliban is leaving in caves while they are looking for them and Bin Laden. Oh by the way, if you read the official 9/11 report, not the Micheal Moore version, you will see that the materials were present to make weapons of mass destruction. It is just like a cake. If you have the flour, eggs, sugar, and icing you have the ingredients to make a cake! The same was found in Iraq for the ingredients for mass destruction!! Oh yeah, Hussein was financing everything the Taliban was doing!! Get your facts straight and quit being decieved by the Michael Moores of this nation!! I applaud Perdue for speaking truth!! A job well done!! We need more people in office like Perdue who are willing to stand for what is right even the Michael Moore’s of America are dumb and have no clue what they are talking about!!

By Okay

May 11, 2007 5:03 PM | Link to this

Marks, many things that you say sound feasible except for a couple of things that I don’t agree with: One, you are stereotyping who the terrorist are. So we go kill all poor, impressionable, homeless Muslims? Secondly, just concentrating on the Middle East is not all we should do, as I said before, terrorists are living in other countries besides the Middle East. Also, the civil war in Iraq has been going on for so long, I don’t think they are going to stop killing each other because of something we do. This is just my opinion and even though we don’t agree on everything, I commend you taking the time to think about it and form a strategy and that’s more than some people have done, including my self because as of right now, I don’t see a plan that will work. Maybe in the future, my mind will change.

By wh

May 11, 2007 5:05 PM | Link to this

To all the neo-cons out there who rant that “liberals” (you are either rational or a Pinko Commie Liberal) only complain about the issue of war without offering solution. I learned this style from your heros Hannity and my personal favorite the “Peabody winning” “mean streets of Manhassett” survivor (Avg Home 1.7M) Bill “Fair and Balanced” O’Reilly. Do not even attempt to open up a dialogue based on reasonable and rational thought with me. I have no choice but to shout you down and sum up your belief system as “typical conservative nonsense” in my best righteous no spin smug tone.

By Okay

May 11, 2007 5:07 PM | Link to this

Mark, I did and still do support our efforts in Afganistan

By woodie

May 11, 2007 5:11 PM | Link to this

Seriously now. We have no reason to be in Iraq. Saddam’s government is gone. Iraq has a government now. Why are we still shooting at Iraqis? Why are they shooting back? We need to leave them be so they can begin to rebuild their lives. All we are doing is agitating the entire planet. It doesn’t take massive troop deployments and over 3 years to train police and military. Our boot camps are only 10 weeks. They hand you a rifle and point at where to shoot. How much training does that involve? The Iraqis are perfectly capable of pointing a gun same as an American soldier. In fact, the Iraqi army probably knows who to shoot, whereas the American troops are more likely to shoot anyone who looks funny. I’d much rather see the Iraqi’s take care of their own problems.

By SICEM

May 11, 2007 5:12 PM | Link to this

Dumbocrats=cowards enough said.

By Mark

May 11, 2007 5:17 PM | Link to this

Okay, you are exactly right, I am stereotyping who the terrorists are. I said nothing at all about killing every poor impressionable Muslim. I did, however, say that we should make every effort to replace the culture that created their hopelessness and hatred.

We should certainly focus our efforts on the Middle East. That is where this culture that we are fighting originates. You should be the first to admit that just because a terrorist has moved from the Middle East to China does not give us a right to go invade China.

Last, my compliments for admitting that you have no idea how to solve the problem. I would urge you to give the troop surge time to work, and never accept chaos in Iraq as a feasible alternative. I would also suggest that you take everything you hear or read in the media with a grain of salt.

By MECIS

May 11, 2007 5:17 PM | Link to this

Conservatards=morons enough said.

By Mark

May 11, 2007 5:21 PM | Link to this

Okay, this is only a response to your question above, but I wonder: if you support our efforts in Afghanistan, why don’t you enlist and go fight?

By Okay

May 11, 2007 5:24 PM | Link to this

I just hope that the USA is not the next Rome or Greece. We are the super power of the world right now and there is nowhere to go but down. We should be very careful and think about our actions. People say we are trying to secure our freedoms for us and the future generations, but this tactic could backfire on us and the USA could be the next nation to fall. Just another one of my opinions.

By Janice in East Point, GA

May 11, 2007 5:25 PM | Link to this

Excuse me Sonny but the last time I checked this was a free country where everyone had the right of freedom of speech so HOW DARE YOU TO TELL ANYONE TO SHUT UP.

And God forbid should you ever become vice president of the United States you can’t run Georgia what makes you think you can run our country.

If you would get your nose out of Bush’s back side you would be able to see how stupid he really is. This war is another Vietnam and unwinable.

We would be better off if we would spend all of these billions of dollars at home on trying to protect our people.

You know our ports and borders, our food supply yes! inspectors to inspect what goes into the food we human eat its bad enough we are killing off our pets but now it is in the human food chain too.

So Sonny until you can do something to actually help out then maybe you should remain silent.

By Michael

May 11, 2007 5:26 PM | Link to this

This just goes to show that Gov. Perdue is just as stupid as President Bush.

By woodie

May 11, 2007 5:27 PM | Link to this

It is the Iraqis manifest destiny to either thrive or perish. It is not up to the U.S.A. to determine their destiny. We had this same issue with Vietnam. Vietnam had to follow their own destiny. We could not change their destiny. We just delayed their reality. Things happen for a reason. The White House needs to quit playing God. The entire international community is against us on this “war” in Iraq. It’s time to step away.

By Okay

May 11, 2007 5:29 PM | Link to this

Mark, I understand and this how an intelligent open dialogue should be. No name calling, just the facts and your opinions, whether you agree or not. You are right, I don’t agree with going to invade a country that has terrorists in it, I just don’t think we should be over extending our resources and troops in one area because that might come to bite us in the butt. Thanks and everyone have a good evening.

By wh

May 11, 2007 5:31 PM | Link to this

Greece, Egypt and Rome were empires that lasted for thousands of years. All empires fall. The US will not exist as it does today for anywhere nearly as long as these 3.

By Okay

May 11, 2007 5:34 PM | Link to this

Why don’t I enlist in the military? And I guess this is the way the people I posed the same question to, I don’t want to sign my life away and be forced to go fight a war that I don’t agree with at the time. Secondly, I have plenty of people in my family that have served in the military, and what I am going to say next is going to stir up some trouble in here, but I was always told that the military is no place for the Black man and if possible, I should go to school and better myself that way, so I did. I am not trying to bring or race or cause in racial tension, just telling you truthly how I feel.

By Old folks

May 11, 2007 5:36 PM | Link to this

I suppose Sonny is a pretty good vet, and that my dog would vote for him, but as a vice-president????What humor!

By Luv 2 Hate Me

May 11, 2007 5:40 PM | Link to this

I say we just draft all the dumb azz republicans sense they are only ones who believe in this war. Let them fight the war they believe. O yeah send the Dick & Bush and let them see how it feels.

I love this! Bash republicans on Blog Day.

By Okay

May 11, 2007 5:41 PM | Link to this

Sorry, I am not trying to bring up race or cause any racial tension, just telling you truthfully how I feel. I must be tired to make so many mistakes,

By silver

May 11, 2007 5:41 PM | Link to this

Sonny as vice president sounds good and it is very cost effective, as both he and Dick Cheney wear the same size of pretty pink panties. The two sissy boys are interchangable in that respect.

By silver

May 11, 2007 5:44 PM | Link to this

Yo SICEM, try this Jews=Cowards. Try fighting your own wars, with your own money and your own weapons. In other words, take your hand off my wallet, off my country, off my army, and off my weapons.

By getalife

May 11, 2007 5:48 PM | Link to this

Please remove Sonny’s fat head from w’s a-ss.

Earth to Sonny, he cut and ran from OBL to start a needless preemptive occupation to get their oil.

Would have been a lot cheaper just to buy it.

Sonny is a coward like the rest of the gop and a failed American.

Geez.

By dan deale

May 11, 2007 5:59 PM | Link to this

Regarding SICEM and his comment. Oh, yea buddy, 9-11-01 happened and things changed forever. So anyone that ws behind Bush and supported his response to the terrible doings of that day are forever supposed to keep their mouth shut because they supported him then. Huh? What world do you live in? Buddy, things happen and people react to them, but it doesn’t mean because you feel one way one day you will forever feel that way. Sure, that makes perfect sense to a delusional individual, but not to a sane person. Bush decided to attack Iraq, a country that did not attack the US on 9-11. You come across as a complete imbecile with your comments. Figure out why we are in Iraq still? Saddam is gone. There is a civil war going on now. In general the fight is over the oil. Bush/Cheney, et al, are working feverishly to get the oil contracts tied up nice and tidy before even departing. I am extremely weary of your ilk. Do you possess any ability resembling critical thinking or do you just implicitly trust the imbecile commander guy?

By T1

May 11, 2007 6:14 PM | Link to this

Reading all of the hate from you liberal pukes is disgusting. Whats going to happen when we pull out of Iraq without fixing the problem? I’ll tell you,that garbage will follow our boys home and start bombing our malls and citizens! I’ll also bet you’ll be the first ones in line (yelling the loudest) that you don’t feel protected and its someone elses fault. Sonny is right, until you have a better idea “SHUT UP!”

By Bushwacker

May 11, 2007 6:17 PM | Link to this

WTF mistakes have been made but there is no book on fighting this kind of war, at least President Bush has the balls to fight a war that was going to be fought sooner or later. All he is doing is trying to protect us, even your sorry a$$!!! I suppose your prefer that sex predator pervert Clinton!

By Al Sharpton

May 11, 2007 6:19 PM | Link to this

SICEM = SUCK’EM

By Jennifer

May 11, 2007 6:20 PM | Link to this

Numerous people have come up with different ideas. Bush just doesn’t listen. I already knew Purdoo was a fool, this is just another thing that seals that knowledge.

By Bushwacker

May 11, 2007 6:22 PM | Link to this

Don’t call them liberals, call them what they are: GUTLESS!!!

We can leave Iraq today but that will not stop the war.

It’s just being fouhgt in Iraq today, it will be somehwere else 5 years from now.

We should realize what a great strategy this is, the dummys are coming to us in Iraq ao we can kill them.

But gutles people would rather stick their head in the sand and hope that during the next attack they are the ones that get killed, like I said GUTLESS!!!

By Sonny can

May 11, 2007 6:23 PM | Link to this

Sonny can STFU.

Losers.

By getalife

May 11, 2007 6:31 PM | Link to this

WackingBush,

Running your ignorant mouth on a blog instead of fighting in Iraq is GUTLESS.

Coward.

By J Smith

May 11, 2007 6:34 PM | Link to this

The Bushies love to try and scare someboby with that if we don’t fight over in Iraq we will have to fight in in the U.S. Get real, you are not fooling anyone anymore. You can’t justify the mess. Bush poeple still thank that Americans are fools.

By J. D. Ferrell

May 11, 2007 6:45 PM | Link to this

Hooray for the Governor. Its about time a politician showed some guts. He now needs to take the media to task.

By AeroNautica0909

May 11, 2007 6:47 PM | Link to this

Rather amazing. I voted for Sonny but I’m very disappointed. If everyone who is dissenting was to shut up, there would be no type of balance to those who have engaged our country in this conflict. Those who have engaged us will have unchecked power- is that what we want as Americans?

Sonny should focus on Georgia and leave the foreign affairs issues to the people in the government at the national level.

By From Lilburn

May 11, 2007 6:52 PM | Link to this

Sonny is such a pitiful joke. Is he even still the Governor of Georgia? I haven’t seen anything of him in several years it seems.

I agree with Rebecca (way up the list). I have never thought Bush went to war for the oil. He was bent on going to way against Saddam before he was even elected. It is clear to me that he doesn’t even have any interest in the Iraqi oil…..it was all because of his father. He wanted revenge and was going to make up reasons to invade Iraqi and get even for his Dad. He involved this entire country in his desire for revenge and has cost 3,000 mothers their sons and daughters because of his desire to “get even”. He is a sick individual. No US President, until him, has ever made a decision based on personal feelings for revenge like W did. Other Presidents have made decision based on gathering the facts and analyzing the pros and cons of any decision. W just went into war blind to the easily foreseen consequences. He didn’t want to know about them. He just wanted revenge. He is pitiful and shameful. His deeds have hastened the downfall of the US in the world’s eyes. Look to China as the next superpower. If we cannot defeat an unorganized group of rag-tag hoodlums and have run our of men in our army and are straining our army….how can we ever imagine having to defend against a billion Chinese one day in the future?? The US’s best days are behind us.

By From Alpharetta

May 11, 2007 6:59 PM | Link to this

Sonny for V.P.? That’s the best joke I’ve heard all year. He would make Cheney look good.

By Wayne

May 11, 2007 7:04 PM | Link to this

Well, Mr.Purdue shows his side for free speech, but more importantly, he displays his true hypocritical character: same when he was a registered democrat. That means: If you don’t agree, get the hell out. Sonny, as a public servant, you have failed. Cheney and Chambliss are both draft dodgers, and I’ll bet we possibly can find that in your background. You’ve done nothing, literally nothing, to solve a single problem since you were elected. Like BillyBob-JoeFrankHarris, another worthless guv’nor, you’ve proven you don’t have th e intelligence to lead and make hard & logical decisions. The people of Georgia, for the most part are sick & tired of the same old political fodder that you represent. Your term will end soon (not soon enough), maybe we’ll get someone (not ending in -R or -D) in office who knows what they are doing.

By A Faithful Christian

May 11, 2007 7:08 PM | Link to this

Screw him. And screw his version of free speech. Nuke the Iragis for Christ!!!

By dan deale

May 11, 2007 7:11 PM | Link to this

Re Bushwacker - you have the mind of a moron. If we don’t fight them there they will follow us home. What a great strategy. Oh, really. So every terrorist in the world is drawn to Iraq? Great, let’s just kill them all. If the US is in Irag the terrorist will come. Kind of like a killing Fields of Dreams. Wow, what a concept. Brilliant. Can’t believe such geniuses are resident on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

By The Nerd

May 11, 2007 7:39 PM | Link to this

The only thing that’s repugnant is this illegal and immorral war! All Republicans are all alike! All they do is keep fuling this f’n war, and keep unemployed citizens stay unemployed. When in the hell that President Bush is going to admit that the war is WRONG!?!

By Nick Wreden

May 11, 2007 7:39 PM | Link to this

Perdue shows himself to be un-American with comments like these. Isn’t it time for all chicken hawks like Bush and Cheney to stand up for America? I’m proud of this country and the values that made us great; why can’t they be proud too? I just don’t understand why Republicans can’t learn to love America.

By Tex

May 11, 2007 7:41 PM | Link to this

Bush is “protecting”us and JJ is “defending” us like his family before him. Holy shucks, what pitiful myths. Of course it hurts - you’re all getting screwed by…an elephant!

By The Nerd

May 11, 2007 7:49 PM | Link to this

I got two words for President George W. Bush: RESIGN, D@-NIT!!!!

By newkid

May 11, 2007 7:52 PM | Link to this

We’re competing vigorously with other states in the US (and the world) for foreign direct investment (FDI), and it looks like we’re beginning to have some success (witness today’s announcement of the Chinese-owned facility to be located in Barnesville that will create 240 jobs). Hope our governor’s ‘foot-in-mouth’ disease - relative to foreign policy - doesn’t render Georgia less competitive on the world stage. We really need those jobs.

By DB

May 11, 2007 8:10 PM | Link to this

This guy is a candidate fore Vice President? He is an incompent no good lying fool! I was dumb enough to vote for the liar the first time around. These statements just confirm what we all know — the guy is an incompent fool.

DB

By gabby

May 11, 2007 8:18 PM | Link to this

To anyone opposed to the war what will happen if we fail. The blood of many more people will be on the hands of the leaders who let this happen. If the world turn a blind eye to the evil that is is facing us today WW2 will look small in the future. Because we are facing a belief that the freedom that we enjoy is evil and worthy of death and destruction. So enjoy the abilty to post on this blog because if they win it is gone.

By Ed

May 11, 2007 8:27 PM | Link to this

I’m Scared. Please Bush,Cheney,Perdue go to Iraq and kill all the worlds Terrorist so the US can be safe. What a joke.

By TW

May 11, 2007 8:29 PM | Link to this

George Bush positions our troops so as to shield criticism clearly intended for him. What kind of a man does something like that? What kind of a man stands up for someone who does such a thing? Thanks for standing up for the military families of GA, Sonny…be real proud of yourself.

By gabby

May 11, 2007 8:47 PM | Link to this

Tim , I’m 52 years old and this will be the second time in my life that Democratic Party has hung our military out to dry. It us the second time that has led to a possible defeat. How can anyone think that they would have the will or tha balls to defend this great country from any enemy. They should pass funding for the war or have the courage to cut funding completely.

By KZGuy

May 11, 2007 8:52 PM | Link to this

Sonny is a big DUFUS. Heaven help anyone that thinks Sonny is Vice President material, but then again Dick Cheney set the bar so low anything is possible.

By j harp

May 11, 2007 8:56 PM | Link to this

As bad as I hate to say it I think the only thing that will open the eyes of all you idiots is another attack on our country. These people want all of you dead the same as the ones that want to take the fight to them. Do you think they will just leave us alone if we leave ? thanks Sonny

By Chicano

May 11, 2007 8:58 PM | Link to this

I wish y’all white folks would have learned your lesson from Vietnam. Stop sending black and latino children that apply to the armed services as an inroad to higher eductation to die protecting your economic interests. Sooner or later they’ll realize that the faster path to freedom entails killing you instead of killing other people of color on your behalf.

By EW

May 11, 2007 9:07 PM | Link to this

How is it that the liberal idiots on this board can shout “freedom of speech” and then turn around and tell Sonny to shut up??? That’s about as hypocritical as it gets. I’ve learned to expect that from the sheep who call themselves liberals.

What’s wrong with calling a spade a spade…why whine and b*** when you’ve got no better idea. I guess that’s what you do when you’re the decided majority in the U.S.

By j harp

May 11, 2007 9:11 PM | Link to this

Oh please Mr terrorist, don’t hurt me, I trust you that you will leave me alone when we leave. You guys are not bad, just missunderstood. Its all our fault that that you guys don’t like us. I know , what if we all convet to Islam ? Will that appease you ?
signed Nevel Chamberland UK

By wh

May 11, 2007 9:22 PM | Link to this

You liberals are so dumb. Toughness is clearly demonstrated sending someone else to die while I sit on my couch and nod my head when the TV tells me to. You liberals are retarded. WWIII will come when we leave Iraq and we have wasted Energy, Effort, Money and most importantly lives all while empowering Iran as the new mideast superpower complete with nukes and a demonstrated hatred of the US. Liberals = ignorant - the US is building a democratic society in Iraq that is sweeping through the mideast with liberalism and normalized relations growing stronger every day. All of you liberals need to get TV sets so you can wag your tail when the radio/TV tells you to. Pass me my Oxy so I can think more clearly and provide even more compelling intellectual thought. Liberals can’t think - we all know they only know how to “cut and run”. They can’t even come up with a solid exit plan for a war created by a Republican administration that never considered the fact that civil war was a possibility in a country whose boundries were developed by the west with no consideration for centuries old ethnic hatred 60 years ago during yet another republican administration’s solid thinking. Liberals are dumb.

By wh

May 11, 2007 9:24 PM | Link to this

When quoting figures of history - learn how to spell their name.

By j harp

May 11, 2007 9:30 PM | Link to this

Cante speelle went to a liberralle scoll

By Michael

May 11, 2007 9:30 PM | Link to this

Sonny is an idiot just like Bush.

By TW

May 11, 2007 9:37 PM | Link to this

Bush is paid $400,000 a year to have ‘the better idea’. For five years he has had the mightiest fighting machine ever known to man under his command and he has been manhandled by a guy who lives in a cave - a man who dropped our towers five years ago and still breathes.

There is no greater abuse of the welfare system than the 400k paid yearly to this president.

By wh

May 11, 2007 9:41 PM | Link to this

Thats the best response you can offer? You’re even more pathetic than your previous post indicates - which is quite a feat. Congratulations. As compelling an argument as you make I think we both know it’s more likely the fact that you get your perspective from TV and haven’t read a book since your liberal English teacher was grading you on your reading comprehension skills (D+)right before you dropped out of high school leading to those foreign b******* taking YOUR job while you were nodding to the talking heads on radio/TV. Liberals are dumb.

By L Carl

May 11, 2007 9:44 PM | Link to this

Remember how Sonny got in office! He was voted in by georgia rednecks looking to fly the confederate flag. He doesn’t seem to care about much but “soony”. VP! Never!

By JBird

May 11, 2007 9:44 PM | Link to this

Governor Perdue seems like a good candidate to continue the Bush legacy. He also creates “factual” statements to suit his position even if his facts are contradicted by almost every available bipartisan study on the matter. What are we going to hear next?

By j harp

May 11, 2007 9:50 PM | Link to this

Just like any liberal, lots of talk, name calling ect. You still didn’t anwser the question. What is it about liberals that they never seem to anwser any questions ? Liberals are indeed dumb.

By Titan

May 11, 2007 9:54 PM | Link to this

Ladies and Gentlemen, I am disgusted with what I read in this blog. It amazes me how fast President Bush haters turn the argument into truckstop bathroom scribble. On the other side, the argument of serving is impetent and does not elevate your point (or lack of). I can say that since I have gone three times. If you really want someone to contemplate your comment, take the time to carefully compose your thoughts. Don’t type angry. Some classes in international relations or strategic studies will help. Most of the comments in this blog are very shallow and don’t even touch on the real issue. USA is the first modern day hyperpower. What comes with that status is our far reaching influence. Why, because we can. Get over it, we are no longer pre-WW isolationists. We have the world’s best economy and a commodities consumption to match. Even though we do not import a large percentage of our oil from the Middle East, stoppage of a free flow to other states impacts us directly. Any President, no matter from what party, will defend our way of life. If he does not, he losses his job and his party suffers. Any argument to surrender or redeploy from Iraq, whatever you want to call it, is non-sense. We will be in Iraq for at least 50 years. The key now is to provide enough regional security until the Iraqies unite. If we run out of political time,look for a divsion of Iraq into three autonimous states. That comes with its own issues but might be the only way out of the monkey show. Thanks for reading, now get back to throwing your mindless poo!!!!

By wh

May 11, 2007 9:55 PM | Link to this

Liberals are so dumb they fell for that old republican trick of balanced budgets and deficit reduction becoming the party of fiscal responsibility. Fools. The key point of their stupidity can be traced to their ridiculous belief that in the wealthiest nation on earth everyone deserves quality education and health care. Old people should not have to choose between medications and food! Can you believe this craziness? This concept is so laughably stupid. We all know that spending money that could have been used to aid a crumbling Social Security system was much better served supporting the death of American Citizens in a region with no interest in western ideals. Dumb liberals - if we didn’t enter this war for revenge and oil we would be paying gas prices 3 times what they were prior to the war with price rises well outstripping healthy economic inflation. Stupid liberals.

By Barticaus

May 11, 2007 9:57 PM | Link to this

JBird, Which Bi-partison studies are you refering to in your dem-talking point comment?

By Joseph Goebbels

May 11, 2007 10:03 PM | Link to this

I like this Mark dude. I think we can find a place for him in our ministry. Facts will never get in his way!

By j harp

May 11, 2007 10:05 PM | Link to this

Bi- partison study group, 50 dems, 1 rep from somewhere in New England.

By Barticas

May 11, 2007 10:14 PM | Link to this

JBird, You forgot to throw in that carbon credit BS with you other dem-talking point.

By Josh

May 11, 2007 10:14 PM | Link to this

Liberals are dumb lol how original

By Sped Teacher

May 11, 2007 10:17 PM | Link to this

Sonny I voted for you both times, and still have a bumper sticker on my truck.

Will see you next week-end at the GOP State Convention. We’ll all cheer for you.

By Josh

May 11, 2007 10:19 PM | Link to this

I am tired of hearing that its the 21st century and that we should not be over there because of all the killing that is going on. I am tired of hearing of people saying it is wrong over there for each other killing and sometimes our own soldiers killing each other. HELLO! There is killing going on here in America everyday!! IT IS ABORTION. Why should an innocent babys who have no choice. That is legalized murder! How wrong is that! These babies need people to rise up and defend themselves. Go to you tube and search for the silent scream and watch it. Only if you dare to watch and innocent baby scream for its life! I do not think the liberals have the guts to watch it. Now with the war, Liberals wake the freak up! Quit trying to watch out for your own group and trying to make your group look good. Our country was hit by terroism and you want to back out from the war? Are you serious? Quit being brainwashed by Michael Moore and all his liberal friends. Contrary to his 9/11 report the real 9/11 report both from America and England found ingredients to make weapons of mass destruction and you want to pull out! Sure lets do it the liberal way and let the terriosts win the battle. Who cares that they attacked our country. Lets welcome them back and let them do it again. That is what is going to happen if we have a liberal president. Awake yourself to the truth and quit letting the fellow democrats deceive you. I have friends and family in all branches of the military fighting the war in afghanistan and Iraq. They are fed up with the liberals and democrats lying to the american people! I praise you Bush and Perdue for doing what is right not would be popular. There is the difference between Republicans and Democrats!!

By Barticas

May 11, 2007 10:20 PM | Link to this

Josh, I’m glad to see that you had a stroke of clarity.

By Loco Lee

May 11, 2007 10:22 PM | Link to this

For too many years Americans have chosen to be blissfully ignorant of things that don’t appear to directly affect us on a daily basis. We are incredibly apathetic of what is going on in the rest of the world, even when technology and global economics has effectively shrunk the world. Our public education establishment had been a total failure teaching American students about the history of the US, so World history is out of the question. What happens on the international scene effects us at home.

Well we cannot get away with it any longer. We can no longer be complacent and think that if we ignore it and it will go away. We have to be brave enough to look at reality and not just simply imagine it to be the way we want it to be. We have to be strong enough to tell the truth and accept the truth even thought it may be painful. We must be willing to tell the truth even if it is politically incorrect and may offend some group or someone’s sensibilities. Being brave means being willing to recognize that we have and will make mistakes and that we must be willing to deal with them and make every attempt not to repeat our mistakes. Being brave is being willing to change. Being brave does not mean sitting on the sidelines and letting others carry the load.

We must be smart and that means being informed. We must understand what is going on. Being smart means we don’t always accept what we are being told. Being smart means that you can identify b****** when you hear it. Freedom of the press should be coupled with responsible reporting. If we do this we will come to realize that who is in charge does matter. Take charge of you own destiny by getting involved- it’s tough stuff for yourself and for your children and their children. bE IT JOHN Q.OR Sonny Perdue.

Remember “We the People” are in charge!

By Barticas

May 11, 2007 10:24 PM | Link to this

Josh, It appears that you did not read Titan’s comment about typing angry!!

By wh

May 11, 2007 10:29 PM | Link to this

Titan - I certainly respect your service. I am curious about 2 of your comments:

1 - Your suggestion of Strategic Studies. I imagine that all members of the decision making cadre in Iraq have attended West Point and/or The American War College. Please forgive my impertinence but this education does not appear to have served them very well in the morass that is Iraq. My gut feeling is that deployment and Strategy is being provided by the Joint Chiefs - but only to the extent of protecting their jobs by pleasing their boss. I hope to God I am wrong on this but “strategic thought” and Iraq do not seem to go hand in hand. I do fully agree with your dividing of the country but the inequity of oil wealth by ethnic region makes this difficult at best.

The US cannot afford a 50 year stewardship in Iraq on many levels. You are suggesting a time period 8-10 times the length of reconstruction in Europe in WWII. Not only are the logistic issues dissimilar from this time period, we are working with people who have millenia of distrust and hatred for western ideals - Rome/Persia conficts - Alexander/Persia etc. This war has been a wasted effort for what is shaping up as a more necessary action - Iran. All we have done in this vacuum is shift the balance of power to the more oppressed and vicious Shiite people (with all due apologies to secular muslims). As awful as Saddam was - and he was one evil SOB - we have made the world more unstable in his removal. I have a hard time thinking of this as “strategic”.

By Titan

May 11, 2007 10:32 PM | Link to this

Well done Loco Lee. Technology has hyper-inflated informational warfare. Unfortunately, one has to be educated enough to understand and filter media. Have you ever noticed that normally the strongest opinions come from the uneducated?

By J Smith

May 11, 2007 10:34 PM | Link to this

Another one trying to make us thank that Iraq attacked america on 9/11. We are not fools. Praising Bush and Perdue is stupid. If Bush,Cheney and Perdue said the terrorist was over a cliff and to jump. You Bush followers probably would jump.

By JAY

May 11, 2007 10:35 PM | Link to this

Remember the jihadist will be much more settled in America in 10 to 20 years like Paris and London if things go on. If we all would like to be like them, then fine. But for me, those stupid people are killing themselves and others for a religion that is ridiculous. How ignorant can you be to think that it is fine to steal from your neighbor and keep 80% and give o the faith 20%? Or have a wife thats 11 years old ? I’m out. God Bless America!

By Heard it here first

May 11, 2007 10:38 PM | Link to this

Ummm… If Iraq didnt have WMD… exactly what would you say killed all those Iraqi people that Saddam buried in mass graves?

Hmm

But you know what.. for me… this war was never about the WMD in the first place.. and never should have been. It is and should have always been in the first place… about the Iraqi people. Plain and simple. That country has been an utter hell long before this war began.. and it was because of the regime.

I hoped and hoped that we would have found another way and avoid war altogether. When I was pressed on what that “other way” would be… I didnt know. Had no idea. I still am not 100% positive we excercised every alternative, but then again, I dont have every detail either and we never will.

As for Perdue as a VP candidate… PPFFFT… rrrriiiiiight. Wait till someone calls him out for his comment in a debate against Roy Barnes and his tacky question about foster children. Umm just how much better have foster children been under Perdue’s watch? We surrrrrrrre have heard about alot of drama with various DFACS here lately. How many children have died and/or continued to be abused? Id be interested to see if there was any significant change under the Perdue regime. (nudge nudge nudge)

By wh

May 11, 2007 10:42 PM | Link to this

Josh - that is cool that your opinion was so unworthy of commentary previous that you felt the need to repost verbatim. I’ll bite this time - Care to provide the source of the Taliban/Saddam link? Sure sounds good without documentation. Michael Moore? Ok - Sean Hannity. Lies? WMD? I know - quote me your cake recipe. Your “friends and family” in service (which makes you incredibly unique)? Recruitment levels are so low that standards have been lessened - perhaps you can help fill this void and go cave to cave to get Bin Laden or police neighborhoods in Basra furthering the protection of our beloved home land? Lastly - Our concern with making our own group look good? I give you John Kerry. We must not be that concerned with image when this is the most recent face of the Democratic party. Abortion - get back to me when your pregnant. Lastly, your 9/11 report crutch - I am sure you fully digested that document and can quote chapter and verse? Let’s discuss the section of culpability and the previously provided intel on “chatter” in the events leading up to this great tragedy, in a city I was living in on the day it occurred with friends personally impacted by this event. The b******* of a tragedy to justify a war for petty revenge is disgraceful.

By Titan

May 11, 2007 10:45 PM | Link to this

WH, We are in violent agreement on many of your comments. Actually most military officers attend public colleges or universities. In the normal career path, a military officer will attend several military schools. Do not confuse becoming educated in IR or SS with having the ultimate decision making authority. There is only one Commander-in-Chief. JCS recommends to the C-of-C. The main issue in this Iraq mess is that it is very complex. Read General Frank’s book about the build-up and invasion of Iraq. The take-away is that Sec of Def Rumsfield forgot who were the military experts. Rumsfield’s scaled down plan will ultimately be the downfall. We had our window of opportunity to secure the country but did not have the manpower.

By Dusty

May 11, 2007 10:49 PM | Link to this

Well, here it is, the end of the day. Liberals are still screaming that the governor is trying to take away their freedom of speech.

Liberals whine away ad nauseam. They don’t seem to realize: TO BLOG IS ONE FORM OF FREE SPEECH AND NOBODY IS TRYING TO STOP YOU. Duh.

THE GOVERNOR ALSO HAS FREEDOM OF SPEECH. He can say what he wants to say just like everyone else.

After reading this blog, it is obvious he made a good suggestion. That is: SHUT UP!

By SteviB07

May 11, 2007 10:50 PM | Link to this

You guys who are against the war on terror are all the same people who supported it when this country was attacked!Im glad to see politicians with some balls!It is about time we have a president who is willing to do something other than his secretary!Bush has made some mistakes but guess what…the WMD thing…that is the CIA’s fault…not Bush’s!Also…when someone says they have the right to free speech, they are misusing that word “right.”You have the liberty…right and liberty are different!Thanks Perdue and Bush for havin some balls!

By TIN MAN

May 11, 2007 10:55 PM | Link to this

TELL SONNY TO SIT HIS FAT AZ DOWN AND SHUT UP —— LOOKING LIKE THAT CHARACTER ON KING OF THE HILL!!!! TROOPS ARE LOOKING FOR OSAMA BIN LADEN OVERSEAS BUT HE’S IN ONE OF THE UNDERGROUND BUNKERS AT THE WHITE HOUSE.

By DISABLED VET

May 11, 2007 10:58 PM | Link to this

ASK SONNY WHAT WILL HE OFFER ALL DISABLED VETS IN GEORGIA IN 2007? WE NEED BETTER HEALTHCARE AND QUALITY OF LIFE BENEFITS AFTER SUFFERING INJURIES IN THE MILITARY?

By Loco Lee

May 11, 2007 10:59 PM | Link to this

Since WWII the price of oil has been tied to the almighty “dollars” which gives the U.S. a great advantage because the fluctuation of the dollar has had relative little effect on the price of oil but even more important is that oil-importing countries need to have a supply of dollars to purchase oil – petrodollars. If suddenly the price of oil is tied to the euro instead of the dollar the effects to the U.S. economy would be devastating. Countries would dump U.S. dollars causing it to devaluate to unimaginable lows and the price of foreign goods would escalate. A devalued dollar would significantly increase our foreign debt and the U.S. would have no influence with OPEC. Suddam Hussain declared that he would no longer take U.S. dollars in 2000. The threat that other oil producing countries might do the same is a contributing factor why we went to war with Iraq. Within weeks we were in Iraq. I’ll bet no one told you that is why we went to war with Saddam! “Petrodollars vs. Eurodollars”.

By wh

May 11, 2007 11:01 PM | Link to this

Titan - Thanks for the reply. It is always interesting to hear the perspective of one who has direct experience of something that I watch from a comfortable distance.

By RICHIE RICH

May 11, 2007 11:06 PM | Link to this

IT SHOULD BE A REQUIREMENT THAT ALL CONGRESSMEN AND CHIEF OF STAFF SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST 20 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN THE ARMED FORCES….OTHERWISE, THEY WILL NEVER KNOW THE REAL SACRIFICE OF THE AMERICAN SOLDIERS…. UNLESS YOU’VE BEEN TO WAR, YOU SHOULD ALL SHUT UP!!!!

By wh

May 11, 2007 11:09 PM | Link to this

Lee to your point - Foreign Nationals have already begun to divest in the Dollar. The rise in US interest rates has as much to do with the rate of return vs. the Euro as it does a statement of the robustness of the US economy. The US will always (forseeably) hold trump in that a vast majority of goods produced world wide are consumed here - An American collapse would destroy the world’s economy. The old statement was is the US catches a cold, Japan gets Pneumonia - Players shift but theory remains. Additionally, China pegs its currency to the US (Yes I know there is a “bucket” of currencies) The combination of these 2 economies tied so closely together effectively negates US economic collapse (forseeably) On top of this the Saudis, and other Gulf Allies, want American Military technology - this also contributes to OPEC making decisions based beyond the “true economics” of currency. OPEC statement is conjecture and my opinion.

By david

May 11, 2007 11:11 PM | Link to this

OH I know this one. The better idea: Pull out of friking Iraq already. Let it crumble and in 10 years it will be meta- stable. We will save a ton of money and lives. Enough already.

By wh

May 11, 2007 11:12 PM | Link to this

Lee - one more point. If we went to war in Iraq to prevent the Dollars slide against the Euro than this is even more of a cluster. We were Euro Positive in 2000 - Euro now carries a 30% premium.

By Loco Lee

May 11, 2007 11:20 PM | Link to this

Titan, Tommy Franks book was, how shallI say it “self-serving”. I’d like to recommend Col Hunt’s new book “On the Hunt” (of corse his first book “They Just don’t get it was OK too). FYI, Col Hunt is the Military Advisor on Fox News.

By Coach Reading

May 11, 2007 11:23 PM | Link to this

I do not agree with our governor. I think all americans have a right to express their opinion, popular or otherwise. I wish republicans would stop trying to link the “War on Terror” with the issue of Iraq. Sadam Hussein never hit the world trade centers with any planes or bombs. Thats not to say he didn’t want too, But that is Bush seniors fault for not finishing the jobe in 91. Don’t use 9/11 as a catalyst for starting a war. Donald Rumsfeld was in Juniors ear the moment he took office about going to war in Iraq. Watch and reflect on the media surrounding the patriot act. It was only three days after 9/11 that false connections between Al Queda and Iraq began to surface. Oh yeah where are all these WMDs that we were going to rid the world of anyway. What have republicans given to the country over the last 7 years besides an outrageous national deficit. I know personally we have done nothing for educaiton. I can speak from personal experience on that one because I work in the public school system. This country needs to get back to the Clinton era. At least the worst thing that could be said for his presidancy is that he was sexually pleased. GOP I pray for all you conservative prudes. LOL

By RICHIE RICH

May 11, 2007 11:29 PM | Link to this

ASK SONNY WHAT IS HE GOING TO DO WITH ALL THAT LAND THAT HE PURCHASED IN FLORIDA?

I WOULD LOVE TO SEE A COPY OF HIS TAX RETURN.

HE HOSTED A PROM TONIGHT, I GUESS HE’S INTO LITTLE GIRLS TOO. WHAT A DAMN SHAME!!! GOVERNOR’S MANSION OR MICHAEL JACKSON’S AMUSEMENT PARK

By humpback

May 11, 2007 11:37 PM | Link to this

shirley franklin showed her tax records; i would like to see sonny’s.

By Loco Lee

May 11, 2007 11:38 PM | Link to this

I hope this puts the WDM counter arguement to bed once and for all. This is exactly what I was refering to when I states earlier that “we the people” need to arm ourselves with the truth.

Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction existed and they were moved into Syria. There is more than enough evidence to bear out this reality. General Georges Sada, the former Iraqi Air Force commander in January 2006 elaborated on these realities during a Congressional House Select Intelligence Committee closed door hearing, chaired by Peter Hoekstra (R-MI). Sada also tells about the 20 tons of Serin gas that the Syrian government conveniently let slip through their hands into that of terrorists that attempted to release the gas in Amman, Jordan. Luckily the Jordanian intelligence thwarted that attempt to kill everyone within an 18 mile circumference.

I can personally attest to these facts having heard Generals Sada’s lecture in America subsequent to the noted Congressional hearing. General Sada also stated that the media has advised him that they will not publicize his statements because that would make Tony Blair and President Bush appear correct from the beginning. All these facts are available to the public in General Sada’s book “Saddam’s Secrets”. To bear evidence here are exerpts from the Fox News, January 25, 2006; SEAN HANNITY & Co-Host: Now Iraqi General George Sada is breaking his silence with a new book, “Saddam’s Secrets.” He joins us for an exclusive interview tonight.

SADA: Well, I want to make it clear, very clear to everybody in the world that we had the weapon of mass destruction in Iraq, and the regime used them against our Iraqi people. It was used against Kurds in the north, against Arabs — marsh Arabs in the south…

HANNITY: Where were they? And were they moved and where? SADA: Well, up to the year 2002 they were in Iraq. And after that, when Saddam realized that the inspectors are coming on the first of November and the Americans are coming, so he took the advantage of a natural disaster happened in Syria, a dam was broken. So he — he announced to the world that he is going to make an air bridge… which went largely unnoticed because they were flying under the guise of humanitarian aid. HANNITY: You know for a fact he moved these weapons to Syria?
SADA: Yes. HANNITY: How do you know that?
SADA: I know it because I have got the captains of the Iraqi airway that were my friends, and they told me these weapons of mass destruction had been moved to Syria. BECKEL: How did he move them, general? How were they moved?
SADA: They were moved by air and by ground, 56 sorties by jumbo, 747 jets were moved, after they were converted to cargo aircraft, they were moved to Syria. BECKEL: So I assume this would not have happened without the permission of Damascus. Is that correct? SADA: Well, of course, you know, when the aircraft would land in Syria, they must have some sort of agreement between the two.
BECKEL: So the Syrian government knows exactly where these weapons are today?
SADA: Yes. Am I the only one whom wrote his congressman and got documentation of the Senate Intelligence hearing?

April 26, 2004;AMMAN, Jordan (CNN) — Jordanian authorities said Monday they have broken up an alleged al Qaeda plot that would have unleashed a deadly cloud of chemicals in the heart of Jordan’s capital, Amman. In a series of raids, the Jordanians said, they seized 20 tons of chemicals and numerous explosives. U.S. intelligence officials called the capture of tons of chemicals that together could create several large conventional explosions “a big deal. At least 80,000 people would have been killed,” the commentator said. Al-Zarqawi “is the terrorist” who plotted this operation.”

If you are still not convinced, I have nothing more to say.

By huggie bear

May 11, 2007 11:39 PM | Link to this

is sonny perdue going to cut out my meals on wheels dinners?

By flava

May 11, 2007 11:44 PM | Link to this

sonny perdue…. we support you 100%

By lilly

May 11, 2007 11:51 PM | Link to this

i like cheese on my eggs too

By Michael

May 11, 2007 11:59 PM | Link to this

Thanks for being honest, even though it is not popular. Given the evidence it was a good descion. Hillary and kerry voted for it, and no one has a plan now. Bush has the best plan available.

By anonymous

May 12, 2007 12:10 AM | Link to this

who cares about what goes on in those third world countries

By serving proudly

May 12, 2007 12:34 AM | Link to this

WAY TO GO SUNNY! DON’T LET UP!

IF YOU JUST QUOTED MICHAEL MOORE AS FACT, FRANCE AND GERMANY HAVE MADE YOU A HONORABLE CITIZEN!!! You have to be a fricken idiot from Cynthia McKinney’s district (the famous district 4 aka DeKalb County) to believe such low life garbage!

Hey Murtha, why don’t you stop trying to fence the funding and fund the fence? Then we can stop having to worry about ILLEGALS trying to kill our Troops here at home with RPG’s! What will the response be when the terrorist strike again? It’s Bush’s fault because we’re idiots! This blog is full of American Haters because all they do is sit around here looking for the next person to trash so they can have 30 seconds of self esteem! Get a life!

LONG LIVE EVERY SOLDIER THAT SACRIFICED THEIR TIME/LIFE TO DEFEND THEIR COUNTRY SO PEOPLE LIKE CNN CAN TAKE POT SHOTS AT THEM FOR DOING THEIR JOB! WARS HAPPEN! GET OVER IT BEFORE THE ENEMY KILLS YOU!

By Shellia

May 12, 2007 12:59 AM | Link to this

Sonny Purdue is a member of the same death-cult that Bush and Cheney belong to. He says solve the problem yourself huh, well if the Bushman would listen to anyone other than the little voice inside his head, the problem would be solved.

By Mark

May 12, 2007 1:11 AM | Link to this

The President didn’t choose war? What a moron. What was Iraq’s connection to 9/11? Where are the WMDs? This was a war of choice from the beginning, and our stupid governor is yet another delusional caveman who doesn’t get that the war is lost and Bush is a criminal.

By art

May 12, 2007 1:18 AM | Link to this

all you Perdue bashers…..I love you! Smart, free thinking, true Americans.

By Truth

May 12, 2007 3:28 AM | Link to this

Bush is a nightmare!

By jack

May 12, 2007 4:42 AM | Link to this

Sonny has his opinion and I do not share it but that is not important. Does anyone really think though that the Republican establishment, which has NEVER supported a Republican from the South who wasn’t a transplanted Yankee, will have anything to do with Perdue being a VP selection? The faster that Southern conservatives realize that the Republicans have been and always will be hostile to them and their interests the faster that Southern conservatives can go back to the Democrat party and liberate it from the Marxist insanity that grips it. Guys like Heath Schuler and Jim Webb are the first of a new breed of Democrat. Hopefully, the Republican deathlock on the South will be broken. Wake up people!

By JB

May 12, 2007 6:38 AM | Link to this

“This president did not choose war. He chose to protect the United States of America, and I’m thankful that he did,” Perdue said.

Was he able to keep a straight face when he made that comment?!?!

If he truly believes that then he’s about as sharp as a marble.

By Pete

May 12, 2007 6:48 AM | Link to this

Purdue wants us to shut up until we have a better idea. How about this. Support our troops by giving them the equipment they need to do the job and bring them home.

Bush did not protect the US by going to Iraq. He turned a non terrorist state into a terrorist state in civil war.

By Antoine

May 12, 2007 7:00 AM | Link to this

Sonny Purdue in the White House? Another gentleman who lie’s, cannot put together a full correct sentence and who has the leadership capabilities of a nat. Seems to be about normal for the trend of late. Perhaps his daughter can take off with the secret service agents. True signs of a happy and stable family.

By RM

May 12, 2007 7:05 AM | Link to this

Sonny-Boy, I think two tours in Viet Nam give me the priviledge to talk. Where were you between 1966 and 1971? I did not see you over there. Now, you SHUT UP Sonny-Boy. RM

By alabamadawg

May 12, 2007 7:09 AM | Link to this

I couldn’t agree with JB more, of course President Cheney chose to go to war !!!

By Agnes Cowan

May 12, 2007 7:28 AM | Link to this

Already revealed as the king of ignorance, now Perdue has proved devoid of any scruples

By Derek

May 12, 2007 7:46 AM | Link to this

How in the world can he sound so stupid and insensitive all at the same time,oooo because he is! The war was very, very uncalled for due to the fact that we still have not capture the so-call main person involved. (Osama Bin L) Bush is not protecting the U.S., he looking out for his future earnings!

By melinda

May 12, 2007 8:02 AM | Link to this

Sonny needs to learn how to govern a state before he considers a vice-presidency.

By Butch

May 12, 2007 8:11 AM | Link to this

Governor Perdue should shut up.

By Politics Aside

May 12, 2007 8:19 AM | Link to this

Reports of the GOP’s death are greatly exagerated. Newt’s New Republican Party is only a little Green around gills because of envy - envy of Democratic Poll numbers.

Green is the color of the bile that GOP bellow-radio hosts spew.

Green is the color of the no bid GOP defense contract profits.

Green is the color of the grass over the graves in the cemetaries of those who gave their last full measure of devotion……for Iraq is a war of the administration, by the adminstration and for the administration, and it tests whether any war so ill-conceived and so hastily dedicated can be long endured……

By Chad

May 12, 2007 8:23 AM | Link to this

Thats why he is the 1st republican governor in 50 years. He says it the way it is. I don’t agree with everything he says but atleast he says what he feels. Most people who don’t like what he says probably doesn’t like the war so no matter what anyone says they are going to bad mouth them. Look we are in Iraq and we have to win. If we leave we will be in bigger trouble.

By disechantedagain

May 12, 2007 8:29 AM | Link to this

Sonny Perdue continues to be an emabarrassment to Georgians. He’s about the worse governor I can remember…even with his time management skills and all. Oh yeah, I better run out and buy my booze today for Sunday… or just cross over the line into Florida… or South Carolina… or Tennessee… or Alabama…or North Carolina… on Sunday. What an idiot governor!

By walter

May 12, 2007 8:30 AM | Link to this

“This president did not choose war. He chose to protect the United States of America, and I’m thankful that he did,” Perdue said.

What a complete idiot. This President ABSOLUTELY chose war and manufactured evidence just to make sure we did go to war. In no way is this country any more protected than it was before the war started and more likely, we’re in worse shape. Look at the tornadoes last week where 60% of the emergency vehicles and equipment are in Iraq instead of right here.

With any luck Bush will be arrested for the murder of over 2,000 great American servicemen as soon as he leaves office and if Sonny feels so strongly, he can serve right alongside Dubya.

By Alan

May 12, 2007 8:49 AM | Link to this

The Goobernator and Dusty are two peas in a pod - idiots

By Brian

May 12, 2007 8:56 AM | Link to this

Please take Purdue for V.P., and take him from Georgia. They will have my vote.

By eddiedawg

May 12, 2007 8:56 AM | Link to this

Hey liberals….which it seems most of you on this blog are….. Sonny said keep your mouth shut unless you have a better idea…..that does not mean free speech has been violated….it means offer an alternative, and giving up and coming home is NOT an alternative…..Bush cannot “choose” to go to war…he has to have the authority of congress….which he got….all you loonies need to take your hatred to your local congressmen and senators….if you even know who they are……Bush is not the enemy here, and amen Sonny……

By SteviB07

May 12, 2007 9:13 AM | Link to this

Yea…we have given up the search for bin Laden…that is exactly why the US has roughly 25,000 soldiers still in Afghanistan.If you want to find bin Laden then you can go do it yourself.Join up with Blackwater and go get him. But until you go do somethin better, stop criticizing. Bush went into Afghanistan to find bin Laden and to free the Afghans from Taliban rule. He has done one of those things. You wanna know the main reason he prolly has not found bin Laden. Because of the idiots at CNN and in the NY Times who have to tell every little thing the US does. Then, because Bush was given reason to go into Iraq(Saddam did break his promise by not letting UN inspectors in and he was very willing to not say no about WMDs),Bush went into Iraq. Hmm…what a failure Iraq has been!The Iraqi people were allowed to vote in free elections for someone without the fear of that person killing them!Geez we have really failed!I mean…the Iraqi govt is stabilizing, they are building a police force!Geez we have done terrible. The number of people the US has lost in Iraq is less than the number the US lost in some battles!and guess what…the American people did not back down!They supported their Pres and their troops!I thank GOD for the troops who have fought and sacrificed their time/life or both for the US but also for those in other countries that dont have the same opportunities!God Bless the USA and the troops!

By tony

May 12, 2007 9:17 AM | Link to this

Hey Sonny,

You shut up. And for the rest of you knuckleheads…there is NO connection between Iraq and 9/11. Do you listen to the news, the CIA or even the 9/11 study commission. Until Sonny starts sending his children to die in Iraq, he should go himself. All the rich Republicans are worried about is the stablization of oil prices. But believe me whoever is in charge will want to sell it. They can’t eat oil. Better plan? Bring our sons and daughters home.

By Houckster

May 12, 2007 9:41 AM | Link to this

A couple of days ago in a meeting with moderate Republicans, Mr. Bush got an “unvarnished” appraisal of his policies. It wasn’t good and he got this as well: “If we don’t have something good to report by September, we’re ditching you.”

One Republican congressman told the President that his approval rating in one part of his district was at 5%. Nationally, the President is at the 30% mark with Newsweek having him at 28%.

Mr. Perdue may decide to bury his head in the sand, but the American people have had enough. Even among Republicans, the President’s performance in Iraq is driving them to distraction.

After all the effort we have put into Iraq and all the dollars we will be years paying off, every assessment of our performance there is discouraging. The terrorists can hit any part of Iraq they wish, oil production is down and large parts of what is produced wind up in terrorist hands and is used to buy weapons that kill our soldiers. On average, Iraqis in Baghdad get a little over 5 hours of electricity per day and about 8-9 hours nationally. Vast numbers of rebuilding projects are falling into disrepair. Everywhere the signs of the administration’s failures are apparent and we’re supposed to shut up? Thanks governor for that helpful comment.

And with the Iraqis wanting us to leave, just how much longer do we stay there?

By Mike

May 12, 2007 9:44 AM | Link to this

Take a look at this board and you can see why the AJC is dying. They clearly have driven off almost all folks who are not mindless liberals. Coming to this blog is like reading a pile of stupid bumper stickers.

Resume your echo chamber coversation. Let me even contribute:

Bush is bad. Sonny is bad. Liberals are good. Bah, bah, bah.

By Bubba

May 12, 2007 9:47 AM | Link to this

“This President did not choose war”. Umm…what alternate reality is good ol’ boy Sonny living in? Scary.

By Christopher

May 12, 2007 9:49 AM | Link to this

I’m sorry, Sonny. Could you please repeat that??

I had a hard time understanding you because you were talking with all that barbeque in your mouth.

By David Thompson

May 12, 2007 9:51 AM | Link to this

Here is an idea for The Gov.

Establish a timeline for withdrawal of US troops. Sound like the Democratic Party. No, this is the desire of more than 50% of the elected Iraqi officials according to the NY Times.

By Houckster

May 12, 2007 9:55 AM | Link to this

Mike: If the AJC is dying it’s not because of it’s political stance. Neocons never supported the paper much anyway. The Internet is diverting advertising the papers around the country have always depended upon.

The “mindless” liberals you castigate aren’t really “liberal”. They appear liberal because you’ve gone over the deep end. Come back to the middle where people belong.

You really should get out more often.

By the way, your dog could have come up with a better foreign policy than your hero Mr. Bush, something a number of Republican’s in the Bush Sr.’s administration would find hard to deny.

By Politics Aside

May 12, 2007 9:56 AM | Link to this

Sonny has a point. He has no solution, so he’s asking for one: “Take my war, please”.

Iraq without US troops in it: A vacuum. that will suck in ambitious combatants into a fight to the death for all that oil.

All that oil. Imagine it up for grabs. The Kurds are dug in, so they’re probably safe, unless they get attacked from the rear by…TURKEY!!

The Syrians will certainly align with the Sunnis and position themselves to receive the onslaught by Iran and Iraq’s Shia. Whoever wins that one will turn on the Kurds.

But one power will emerge, or will it? If we abandon Iraq, then even China (via Iran) could get pulled into that vacuum, and world war three would be upon us, (via US/Sunni axis).

This aint no time to be buying stocks on margin, my fine friends.

What bush has unleashed by opening pandora’s Iraqi box….it’s enough to unnerve the stoned statue of lincoln at the monument.

I wonder if Bush ever has a moment of clarity where he realizes what he’s done. I wonder what form his denial takes.

I wonder if Bush is educating himself on the culture and tradition of the various tribes and sects that dwell in ancient mesopotamia? I wonder if he even thinks about the history he’s stepped into…

nah!

Democrats keep insisting that there’s no military solution, but rather a political one. What the hell does that mean?

What political solution could there be that has escaped the population of mesopotamia for 10K years?

Part of the Iraqi problem is an historically-ubiquitous foreign presence that has undermined the natural evolution of a tribal population into nationhood through civil war, or whatever it is that shapes a country to be a country over the millenia. Foreigners artificially ensured a peace, preventing the real Iraq from distilling.

From what did France or Germany emerge? From their shared hate of Rome?

Our own experience with the Indians from 1492-1896 prove that a country must be free to exterminate those that would stand in the way of nationhood or any presumed manifest destiny, which any self-proclaimed country must engender to survive.

Iraq never had that chance, because there was always a foreign country stopping them….a foreign country with it’s own manifest destiny over the very planet we live on.

Where does the rights of any one country end and another country begin? Does a cannon always make that determination?

Are we simply armed animals roaming the planet arbitratily identifying our own national security threats?

Buy whose authority? Whose idea was it to send Custer to destroy civilian indians at the Little Big Horn? How dare we? What gave us the right to send cavalry into a bunch of babies and women in tents?

YOu want a scoop? Try digging into how those same indians got their hands on repeater rifles in the weeks leading up to little big horn. Now there’s a story of Grant administration corruption that’s been covered up for over a century, but it’s right there for any of your news hounds/tin-bloggers.

Try thinking Iraq. Think Iraq. Think about it. You can do it. You’ll know what to blog, and what to write your congressman, and what to tell the citizens in your orbit.

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of his country. We need to get ourselves out of this Iraq Peace without starting world war three.

Nothing’s impossible. Think Iraq. We can solve this.

Impeach Bush. Why? Because that will occupy congress and prevent any more madness from that sector. It will also pin the administration down and stop them from any more of their treason.

We can get out of this, my fellow americans, but it’s going to be a damn near thing.

engage.

By Call Me Earl

May 12, 2007 9:58 AM | Link to this

America’s war on Terror

655,000 = Iraqi Death Toll 3,390 = US Soldier Deaths

America has become a bully in world politics. Our arrogance, greed, and blood thirst has gotten us involved in mass murder as well as genocide. America was built on freedom and respect for humanity. We were the leaders in keeping the peace and practicing freedom of speech and religion. Now there’s an atmosphere of fear. This fear was caused by the gentlemen in the Washington DC as well as the business owners in the Arms Market and Lockheed. If we aren’t at war, certain businesses don’t make money. Republicans need war becuase they support the second ammendment which includes the gun dealers support. Who’s making the suggestions in DC. Gun totting, blood thirsty, greedy villians are the reason we’re in Iraq. Along with the US based oil companies that seek to make a dollar from the fall of Sadam. America was never in danger, except from itself.

If I hear my neighbors arguing and I walk out of my house, go across the street. Kill my neighbor and sleep with his wife while the kids watch. Yes I’ve created an enemy. That’s what America has done in Iraq. Butted into some one elses business and created an enemy.

By CaptMorgan

May 12, 2007 10:15 AM | Link to this

You liberals are nothing but a bunch of bloody fools!

By g

May 12, 2007 10:20 AM | Link to this

no one should shut up. this effects everyone in one way or another. we have the right to voice our views.

By DemocratsareCowards!

May 12, 2007 10:21 AM | Link to this

Do let me see..perhaps the Democrats would prefer a White Flag flying over the white house!!! Have some courage you COWARDS!!VOTE REPUBLICAN PEOPLE!!!

By Dave

May 12, 2007 10:23 AM | Link to this

WTF and CALL ME EARL, You both have short memories of the thousands of our American people and the sorrow their families and loved ones experience every day at the hands of the coward radical religious groups! If it were left up to you cowards they would take us over. Hine sight is 20/20! Dam the torpedos, full steam ahead! Its leaders and soldiers who have the courage to take the fight to them that make it possible for you to spew your venom! If we are so bad, why don’t you both go live with them so you can kiss their butts every morning when you wake up. For sure you better not criticize them or you both will be taking an eternal dirt nap.

By SteviB07

May 12, 2007 10:24 AM | Link to this

So here is the problem with you people who claim that the President is sending our songs and daughters to die in the Middle East. Those people ENLIST VOLUNTARILY!The United States does not force people to enlist in the military!Soldiers enlist knowing that the US could go to war!They are doin their job and thank God!If they did not do their job, the liberals and pansy moderates might not have a blog to hate America on and make themselves look like idiots!You wanna know why things suck in Iraq…b/c the soldiers are not getting the support they need!How about a morale boost!How about lettin the soldiers know you appreciate them!

By Bernie

May 12, 2007 10:32 AM | Link to this

What an idiot!!!! And this guy is the Gov. and under consideration for VP?

By Mike Harvey

May 12, 2007 10:38 AM | Link to this

Sonny for VP. Who thought up such a laughable notion as this. Why he can’t protect the children of Georgia from their foster parents, how can we expect him to protect the country from terroist.

By Richard T. oGillespie

May 12, 2007 10:42 AM | Link to this

Sonny ought to heed his own advice. The more he talks, the less I like him. Bush and his administration did not go into Iraq to defend this nation, they went in because there were “targets” there.

“A wise old owl sat in an oak. The more he saw, the less he spoke. The less he spoke, the more he heard. Why can’t we all be more like that wise old bird?” (anonymous)

By SteviB07

May 12, 2007 10:45 AM | Link to this

SO because Sonny supports the President he is an idiot?So I guess just about every American is an idiot.I think i remember the majority of Americans backing the President in the early stages of the war!But oh-no some Americans died!How dare they die doing their job they signed up for!Man those guys are mean!Geez you people who are living in this other world where Americans cant die in war need to wake up!America is free because Americans died in war!And a whole heck of a lot more than have died in this war! You know what else…dont complain about your right to free speech…as far as im concerned Sonny was just exercising his LIBERTY of free speech when he told the idiots to shut up!Does he not have the same privileges as every other American?I think he does!

By SteviB07

May 12, 2007 10:48 AM | Link to this

Protect the country from terrorists?That is not what the VP does.The VP’s main job is to be the head of the Senate and can do other diplomatic work.I think we have a Dept. of Defense that takes care of protecting Americans.And Sonny is a man…not God!He does not have control over all that happens!If some idiot parent wants to beat their child, it is not Sonny’s job to go in and save them.There are agencies made for that!

By wh

May 12, 2007 10:54 AM | Link to this

I swear your Conservatives are mindless parrots. I also like when Sean Hannity can be quoted as a source to put an argument to an end. That seems reasonable besides his well known objectivity, he is a well known political scholar. Keep watching your Fox News shows and living in an insulated little fantasy where you are either fair and balanced or someone who needs to be shouted down - Facts Be Damned! Sonny Purdue on a national scale? That ought to play famously Sonny (AKA Bubba) the Chicken Man. Please by all means add him to your pathetic ticket for 2008 (Nice Debate with these jokers). It is a fortunate thing for fans of war, and leadership that has not had ONE piece of viable domestic legislation in 7 years (don’t bother with the Patriot Act), that has no regard for international relations and admittedly distrusts educated people, that the Democratic Political Party leadership is such a poorly run organization - With any foresight the Dems would have all three branches right now. Despite themselves the Dems will have full control of the government shortly Tick Tick Tick - 18 months left.

By wh

May 12, 2007 10:58 AM | Link to this

Typical - I will create facts - Bush has historically low approval ratings measured against any sitting President ever. In his greatest moments he won the presidency by a few hundred votes and scant electoral win against an abject fool - “Just About Every American Supports” Right on. H

By Draft all College Republicans

May 12, 2007 10:58 AM | Link to this

I think in ten years all of you raging GOP koolaid drinkers will be doing one or two things. Many of you will act like you thought Iraq was a huge mistake the whole time. The other half of you will act like the war was going WONDERFUL until the liberals screwed it up despite the following; It wasn’t their idea, they were shut out of the planning, they didn’t control the presidency or the congress for the first four years of the conflict and IRAQ was is chaos when the finally took over. Sonny Perdue and all of you raging neo-con rednecks can shove it up your a*. Perhaps, you all are the ones who need to shut up. W stood on an aircraft carrier in 03 with mission accomplished in the background, Rumsfeld wouldn’t admit there was an insurgency until it was over a year old, Cheney said the insurgency was in it’s last throes in 05 and last of all Bush said we were winning in Iraq before the 06 election. You all are just frustrated that something that you believed in so strongly has been an absolute sham. Honestly, believing Iraq will turn out good in the long run(no matter how long we stay)is ridiculous. When we leave Iraq will go into chaos, but that will be the case whether we leave next year or ten years down the road. It’s all a matter of how many dead Americans and how many billions of dollars do we want to waste on a war that shouldn’t have been fought. You all say Democrats are “Rushing to Surrender” or don’t have a plan. What’s the GOP plan? It seems to me stay forever and make sure a generation of military families are seperated from their loved ones for a decade. For what? Nothing.

By wh

May 12, 2007 11:05 AM | Link to this

Anyone who thinks Bush is a substandard president worships at the alter of Michael Moore. Hannity/O’Reilly/Limbaugh have programmed this response in my head. I use it whenever someone tries to use factual evidence in an argument. When this fails, I gather up “evidence” from advisors to my favorite TV show who appear when trying to sell a new book. Yawn. A repeat statement - Tick Tick Tick - enjoy the waning moments of the reign of grinning buffoonary.

By rwlo

May 12, 2007 12:30 PM | Link to this

I am a huge Sonny detractor—I think he’s usually gutless, unimaginative, and a total political creature. But in this one instance, he surprised me by being 100% right. Anyone who does not have an idea should just shut up. It’s really easy to be AGAINST something—but where’s your alternative? The “War Is NOT The Answer” yard signs are a perfect example—who is going to stand up for war, and against peace? Only an idiot. But sometimes you have to take up arms against dangerous people in the world who want to kill you badly enough they’ll sacrifice themselves, their children, and other people’s children in that pursuit. Even the avowed liberal Tom Friedman understands that. So get with it, liberals—I’m waiting for your ideas, and the idea of forcing benchmarks on Iraqi leaders is actually a pretty good one. Let’s have some others. But spare me the “Bush is a war criminal” nonsense. We all remember what the country was going through right after 9-11—we were not in a mood to brook any more defiance from Saddam, or take any crap from anybody else, for that matter. To look back now and say you weren’t worried about Iraq; you didn’t want to take Saddam out; you weren’t p*ed in general—that’s just revisionist history. Be honest with yourselves and stop blaming our thoroughly mediocre president, and start thinking of ways to make things better.

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By Chaz

May 12, 2007 2:17 PM | Link to this

IRAQ HAS OIL - CUBA DOESN’T

Got it now?

By Jay

May 12, 2007 3:40 PM | Link to this

Hey Gov. Sonny Got somthing new for the sonny due list. Maybe you can run for President instead if you ran a campaign with a pledge to withdraw the troops and send the gang he supports in place of the troops, starting with Dick Chaney and his boys from his former employer the Big H, Jeb Bush, George Bush and those good old Texas Oil boys, Carl Rove, Condi Rice,Atty Alberto, the sons and daugthers of the corperate big wigs the may billions on the backs of Americans falling troops in the name of big business and oil, not Jesus. I’m sure the time line to end the war would become reality, and there would be no veto threats. How many folks out there wanna bet the tuff talking Gov. Sonny won’t add that to his Sonny due list. So who’s gonna pick a coward to be VP.

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By chefrad

May 12, 2007 5:41 PM | Link to this

Perdue sounds like the perfect GOP V-P nominee to me, entirely in the Rudolph Hess tradition.

By Sully18

May 12, 2007 6:17 PM | Link to this

What an ignorant hick Sonny Perdue is?Blindly following the worst president ever,who lied us into an illegal war to make himself and his oil buddies rich,these cretins who cannot feel compassion or guilt;who exhibit many traits that resemble those of a socio-path; who are destroying a culture in Iraq;and are severely damaging our own culture; these folks need to be put into a Guantanamo of their own.

By one smart yankee

May 12, 2007 6:30 PM | Link to this

Who made this moron governor? Why it must have been the brilliant voters of Georgia. Cheer up, rednecks, you’ve now got the moronocracy you deserve.

Ha Ha Ha

Happy in California

By Jack Armstrong

May 13, 2007 12:36 PM | Link to this

I’m old enough to remember when the late Arthur Godfrey, and incredible drippy radio and TV host was spoken of as “presidential material” — on the GOP ticket, of course.

The GOP would nominate Gomer Pyle if they thought he could win and the 28% who think W is doing a great job would vote for him and be pround of it.

By Michael J. Beisch

May 19, 2007 5:49 PM | Link to this

What are corrupt politicians for But the prosecution of war.

We’ll remember Bush’s lies Every time a soldier dies.

—Michael John Beisch