You say: “Welcome Chris Dodd to the Hall of Shame occupied by you and the 28 other senators who let their hatred of George W. Bush cloud their minds. You have signaled surrender to the enemy and undercut our fighting men and women.”

We are losing in Iraq because George Bush did not send the 350,000 troops that Gen. Shinsecki requested. Bush is losing in Iraq because he threw thousands of Americans into a shooting gallery — and said “kill the terrorists” — never revealing that the terrorists were actually in Afghanistan. We are losing this war because George Bush said “waterboard the insurgents” — creating 10 enemies for every one enemy we had. George Bush is losing this war because he did not have a plan to win the peace — provide electricity, rebuild the infrastructure, provide security — and instead gave away billions to incompetent cronies and corrupt businesses.

Today, we don’t have the adequate number of troops to stabilize the country. And our soldiers are dying 3-a-day to appease people like you — the Republican base. You are the reason we’re losing this war. Wake up.

Maybe you can point out which of the things I listed in my comment #29 you would like to contest or tell me what I know in my heart was True?

I’ll be waiting for your reply with bated breath!

Tone down the attitude, man.

Geez.

I can hardly wait (this should be good)!!

The IslamoNazis,Now i’m terrified!!

Are they the cousins of those wicked Islamofascists?

I hate to disappoint you but as soon as the Occupation by the Christofascists ends the Islamofascists will be driven from Iraq by the same people who are killing our kids today.

Right now the they’re the enemy of my enemy if you get what I mean.

Since my sides been right and yours has been wrong on everything from “WMD” to “we’ll only need 150,000 troops to secure Iraq’ to “mission accomplished” to “we’ve turned a corner in Iraq” at least a dozen times to every other thing concerning this fiasco how about we try it our way and redeploy our troops to the periphery and see how thay works out?

ctkeith: I don’t recall mentioning any “Dominoe (sic) Theory” . We would be surrendering to the IslamoNazis who would happily slaughter your or me. The Iranians, if they are allowed to obtain nukes, will be in control of more than just Iraq.

Al-Qaeda wasn’t welcome in Iraq until we invaded and occupied their country and set up the puppet Government that today won’t even allow their own elected Parliment to meet for fear they would vote to throw the US presence out of their country and Al-quada won’t be welome when our occupation ends.

The Dominoe Theory was proven a total falsehood when we left Vietnam and your trying to use it to justify the continued occupation of Iraq is really kind of Pathetic. Wouldn’t you agree?

By the Way,

If you believe any of this tripe please name who we will be surrendering to so we’ll know exactly who will be in control of Iraq when we leave.

And to accuse Senator Dodd of being motivated by hatred of our President is sheer ridiculousness.

Does it occur to you that Senator Dodd is representing the majority of CT when he calls for a phased deployment?

Finally it is common courtesy to use someone’s title when referring to them directly. Senator Dodd, whether you agree or disagree with him, deserves a modicum of respect.

Chris Dodd is a US Senator.

You know,

I had plenty of face to face time with a US Senator I have no respect for as the owner of Dumpjoe.com but if you ask any of his staff I always treated the Senator and anyone on his staff with respect.The Office itself demands that.

PS- a staffer from any pol is better than being ignored.Hopefully Fedele and every other pol learns as we go forward.

One of the campaign adds you ran here in CT during your last reelection bid showed you very forcefully commenting that “Connecticut should stop exporting our jobs, and technology, and instead be exporting our products”.

Sir, you have been our senator now for 3 decades and exactly what you say we should not be doing, we have been doing all that time. Sadly we continue to do exactly the same since your reelection to the senate. Obviously while you clearly recognize the very damaging strategic importance in this trend to both our state, and our country, you have not been able to get meaningful results in your own state, to your own words.

That being the case I ask, what steps, or policy changes, would you make as president, that would stop the non stop wholesale exportation of our manufacturing jobs and improve the exportation of the remaining products this country still has the ability to manufacture here, before we lose the few of us remaining with the skill, knowledge, and ability to make them?

And please don’t call the guests “lackeys,” thanks.

Has the Senator already agreed to vote for the compromise bill that really says nothing but will be used as a vehicle to get the supplemental to a conference?