I heard your Special Comment on tonight's show. It was riveting journalism. Churchill could not have said it better. BRILLIANT!

Keith, your outrage is justified, your commentary eloquent, your analysis correct. The cavalier attitude that the executive, and now the leadership of our legislature, has toward the members of our Armed Services is a disgrace. What good is the "power of the purse" if it is not exercised?

Damn straight. Right before Memorial Day too. I guess they DON'T remember.

I would like to begin by answering the question Mr. Olbermann asked at the end of his commentary tonight: "Who among us will stop this war?" The answer, sir, is "We will. If this war is going to end any time before - roughly - early 2009, it will be the citizens of this nation who will end this war." I'm truly sorry so many people are shocked and outraged by the caving of the Democrats on war funding, but it really should come as no surprise. The sad fact of the matter, cynical as it may sound, is that from a political point of view it serves the interests of both parties to keep this war going at least until the 2008 elections are over. Faced with the choice of doing the right thing or the politically profitable thing, the Democrats predictably chose the option which their careers of "service" in Washington for at least the past fifty years have conditioned them to do. I've been trying to tell people this for quite a while. In fact, in the days before the mid term elections last year, while so many of my friends in San Diego were getting ready to celebrate the coming changing of the guard in Congress, I was taking the first steps on a journey that will eventually bring me to Washington, D.C., carrying a petition to Congress to officially end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and restore the balance of powers between the Legislative and Executive branches of our government. Today, I am in eastern Missouri - over 2100 miles into my walk - and the Democrats have only done what I expected they would do. If you're interested, I'm calling my effort the Walk to End the Wars. I am a Vietnam-era vet, a former United Methodist pastor and a grandfather. I have a website - www.wtetw.com - that outlines my petition, gives a detailed description of my route, and offers a running chronicle of my experiences and thoughts along the way. My primary objective in walking is to try to get as many people as possible to start thinking once again - about the consequences of our actions and about what kind of world we are building for our grandchildren. From the very beginning I have been saying that this country still - barely - belongs to you, my friends, and if you want an end to this war and the restoration of our democracy, don't hold your breath waiting for our elected officials to do it. If you want to see the person who will end this war, you need look no further than the nearest mirror - and unless and until that person is fed up enough to take meaningful and persistent action, we will have the government - and the war - we deserve.

Bravo! Thank you!

Thank you KO, well done with clarity and truth. As a democrat it hurts to see the party AND our Presidential candidates stand by like a 91 year old man was being mugged in front of them. Someone must shove this 'crazy aunt' into the attic.

I too share your disdain Keith and having learned yesterday of this sell out published this comment on my blog as well. To sum it up it's time to spank the children and send them to bed. To bad we have to wait until November, 2008. http://constitutionalist-idealthoughts.blogspot.com/2007/05/sold-out-or-polatics-as-usual.html

Great special comment! I was inspired to send the following letter to "my" useless senators, Schumer and Clinton. Here goes: Senator, While watching the news this evening I became absolutely infuriated that Majority Leader Reid and Speaker Pelosi have caved into President Bush's monomaniacal desire to have things his own way in Iraq. I have been a registered Republican since the age of 18, but voted for you in this last election because I believe that my Republican party no longer exists, and that those who call themselves Republicans are simply wolves who masquerade under the guise of lambs in order to fleece the American people and remake the world in their totalitarian image. I voted for you, Senator, because I believe that my party has abandoned and disgraced our country. You can imagine my horror at the fact that the Democrats, our nation's last hope, are similarly bent on destroying and disgracing our great nation. My plea to you, Senator, is simple: do NOT vote to approve this war spending bill. Vote against it - or abstain if you must - for the future of this country and (if that does not move you) for your own future as a viable political candidate. I wholeheartedly believe that you will come to be judged not upon whether or not you voted to give Bush his original carte blanche to invade a sovereign nation, but upon whether you vote to extend that carte blanche to the detriment of our troops and our safety as a nation. There is no excuse now, Senator. You can no longer claim to be ignorant of the implications of that for which you will vote. There is no choice for you but to vote against this bill. The alternative is to admit that you and your colleagues care nothing for the will of the American people, but only for your own ephemeral gain. You may win in the short term, but you and all of the rest of us will lose in the long term if President Bush and his cronies are allowed to continue their horrible policy unimpeded. When the vote occurs, Senator, think of the people on whose behalf you are voting. Know that there is not one of your constituents who - if they grasped the true implications of this bill - would not implore you to vote against it. Know that your future and the futures of those Americans living and those yet unborn rests on your yea or nay. Let us be upon your conscience when you vote, and let our convictions lend you the courage to act in the best interests of the nation. I have written you this night in the profoundest hope that you will preserve America and its people in this dire hour. Do not disappoint us. Do not vote for this bill. Sincerely yours

Kudos Keith!!! Your comment was right-on tonight. It inspired me to e-mail Ms Pelosi, Mr Reid and my senator from WV - Jay Rockefeller.

There is an old Asian Marshal Arts technique which teaches one to use the enemy's strenght against them. This bill has not passed yet for the President to sign. Imagine, just imagine, what would happen if the bill were to be voted down? Imagine 52 senators voting against this. What if it fails in the House? This may not be as over as everyone thinks, and it may not be as much of a betrayal as the American Public think. In fact, if this is what they are doing, it is what I would do. Let everyone be angry just before the vote and then fail to pass what Bush wants.

Both parties have been compromised. The only contender in the 2008 presidential race who is willing to seriously challenge this drift toward fascism is Ron Paul. Ron Paul stands for populist ideals that the country is screaming out for after seven years of hell under Bush. Paul unites opposition to the war and the police state at home across the entire political spectrum…from libertarians through anti-war Democrats.

Okay, time for a little reality check here: It may suit the hard-core left (not to mention John Edwards, who is seriously auditioning for the George McGovern role in this movie -- Rudy's shooting for the Nixon part) to think of the Congress sending the same bill -- with the same timelines, and the same deadlines -- back to the WH over and over and over again until Dubya falls to his knees and screams, "NO MORE! I'LL SIGN! I'LL SIGN! I BEEN A BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD BOY!" Well, he has and that's apparent, and that's all there is to say about that. Here's the thing, though, folks: THE VOTES WERE NOT THERE! In order to knock a veto out of the park, you need 60 senators, and there just were not enough GOPhers who were willing to climb that fence, even with _weak_ benchmarks Dubya could have ignored. And why wouldn't they do the right thing, when it seems like everyone and his dog Ralph agrees this war is going badly, will not get better any time soon, and Fort Dix proved the spider-web theory of maintaining the war is downright WRONG?! Because that 28% Dubya's hanging on to adds up to 75% of GOPher voters. And the senators (particularly vulnerable ones like Snowe and Smith) want to keep their jobs. Period. To quote Judd Nelson in _The Breakfast Club_, "Demented and sad, but social!" Plus is there anyone -- ANYONE -- who seriously thinks this President is going to start recognizing reality this far in? This idiot actually got up on his hind legs and said the '06 vote was a call for change -- HIS kind of change, otherwise known as The Surge (or "Surge 1.0", if today's news is right)! If he were any more in denial, we'd have to bury him in a sarcophagus! It has nothing to do with right and wrong any more, anyway. It's now a question of Dubya having his way for so long, that he's going to dig in his heels, throw his blocks, and squall like a two-year old if he doesn't get his own way EVERY SINGLE TIME... you know, the way the Congress did for the last four years? Were we right on the facts? Yes. Were we right on the law? You bet. But unless we came up with something dead solid veto-proof, that Bush would have been impeached the moment he pulled out a signing statement, we were going to lose this one. So prey for a smoking gun with the attorneys or the wire-tapping program, people, because that's the only way we're going to nail this sociopathic putz. A simple majority just puts us in charge of the Congress. It does _not_ put us _In Charge_. And more is the pity.

Thank You Keith for keeping my head from exploding.

Keith: I thoroughly enjoyed your Special Comment. However you were wrong to chastise ALL the Democratic Presidential hopefuls but for Dodd and Edwards. Governor Bill Richardson has been officially calling for the immediate de-authorization of the war since January. I point you to this post by the Governor on The Huffington Post: I think it only fair to Governor Richardson that you report on his stance in your continuing coverage of Iraq War funding and the Democratic Presidential Candidates. Outside of that omission, I felt your Special Comment was a spot on accurate representation of the cowardice of the Democratic leadership; and the inappropriateness of the President's use of the troops to advance his own egomaniacal agenda.

Lost my job, then lost cable, about to lose my house, in a country thats losing a war, lost a friend in Iraq, lost my car, but my final deeply felt loss is when I finally lose my internet connenction and my last ability to read/listen to keith. bummer. really going to miss those special commets.

Thank You Keith, America needed to hear that tonight, Just as a note of interest, you show ended at 9:00P.M. EST and by 11:00P.M. Special comment was ON YOUTUBE AND ON 3 (including mine) Political Blogs! and those are the one's that I know of! WOW! Keep it up! Your friend in Detroit, Michigan -Chuck Adkins AKA The Populist Editor The Populist

Bridgette-Brunswick: People are angry because backing up and regrouping takes time and many here are not willing or desiring to lose one more American life in Iraq. The Dems may be regrouping as you say, but they show no sense of urgency when it comes to saving American lives. How many more will be kidnapped, tortured, killed and found floating in a river with a bullet hole in their head, or killed by car bombs they cannot defend themslve against. Maybe you are willing to wait for the Dems to regroup until the next round. But how many more young people do we sacrafice in the interim. No, this may not be the end of the debate, but I don't recall the American people voting in the last election for a debate. They voted in the last election to get the troops out of harms way in Iraq now. Not in the f------ latter part of 2007 or in the early part of 2008, but NOW. The debate was over a long time ago and the American people were supposed to have won the debate and the American people said "get out" The Dems seem to have failed to remember that the debate podiums were removed, the curtains drawn and the lights turned out in the last election. And crazy town: Who cares who ends up owning this war. To back off like the Dems have as a strategy to give full ownership to Bush may hurt the republicans, but what of the troops dying while the Dems make sure this chaotic occupation s cemented to GW's rear. No political strategy is worth one more American life. You guys don't get it. Each time I see Bush's or Cheney's smirk I want to wipe it off their faces. Now each time I see Pelosi's or Reid's smile in a news conference I want to wipe it off their faces. What the HELL is it with the smirks and smiles. The American peeople are angry. Our young men and women are being kidnapped, tortured, killed, maimed in a senselss and unwinnable occupation of a country made up of religious sects involved in a civil war and who will be killing one another by way of street fighting and terrorits acts for years to come. Let them do it. Who the HELL is the enemy for our young kids to fight for God's sake. Tell me that. Who do they shoot to defend themselves. That damn old beat up van down the street. That group of folks shopping at the local market during the day and who plant bombs at night. Who do they side with. The Sunni who were in power under Saddam or the Shiite under the current corrupt government. Or the Kurds who can't stand or trust the other two partys and may themselves soon be into it with Turkey. Are you willing to tell the parents of that tortured and murdered trooper recently found in the river with a bullet hole in his head we're sorry but we needed to debate this further and regroup or that our strategy is to make sure Bush owns this occupation. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!!!! Screw regrouping or making sure GW winds up with sole ownership of this occupation. Who gives a f---. And THAT is what a Dem with balls and some influence should be preaching and preaching and preaching to the American people until they rise up and shut this damn country down until Bush removes the troops from harms way. You want to end this occupation. Bush wants to play games. Fine. Get some balls Dems and call for a general strike, street marches, marches on the capital from 70% + of the American people who want this occupation to end now. Screw the funding Bills. And watch how quickly those troops will be redeployed.

The problem with Keith's special comment is simply the American people have ceased to matter...our voice doesn't matter...our wishes don't matter...even Keith's rant doesn't matter...one major change to the political process should be to let the American people vote on funding for the war, ending the war, stem cell research, abortion, gay rights, etc...let the American people decide the issues that matter not our elected officials who have other priorities besides the voice of the majority of the American people...the Democratic premise we vote and elect people who are suppose to listen to our voice and do our bidding has become an empty premise that no longer works...big business and lobbyists control the political process not the interests of the American people...let the American people decide...let us vote on the funding of the war, to end the war, and bring our troops home...the 70% of Americans against the war should matter for something...but we don't...time for the masses to rise up again...a new revolution is needed...CA, we need you desperately my friend...

This site is censored...want proof! Try it...mention Ron Paul, You will not make it on. This blog is no different than Hannity and Rush Limbaugh... left wing, right wing, you're all the same. God help us!

never mind...found one. My bad, sorry

First: Bill McDannell-you rock! For those of you outside of the greater San Diego area, this man and his wife sold most of their possesions to do this walk. Friend, when you return to Lakeside (home of a huge military housing complex), look me up-you need to start your life anew! C A: I couldn't agree with you more. Regardless of who I voted for, I know personally, probably more than anybody on this site outside of LA in Seattle, what is at stake. I'm not backing down, nor am I fool. I'm not waiting for them to 'regroup' and I'm letting them know. I can do what I can do, and not much else. Rest assured, however, that I AM TRYING! Bill, Bill, Bill Hangston in OH-WRONG! There is a big difference between here and those freaks that you mention-at least those of us on here can admit when we think those we support have screwed up. With Hannity and Limbaugh, they won't admit any wrongdoing with the Bush administration-instead they want to blame it on someone else. Talk about God helping us-that won't work now. PEACE!

Where's a viable third party candidate when we need one?

Guys, read the article on this site about this bill. It hasn't been finalized. Apparently, there are a lot of Republicans threatening to vote against it because of Pork Barrel spending written into the bill, Democrats threatening to vote against it because of the lack of time tables. This "compromise" might be DOA. The ink is not even dry yet. Write to your Congressmen and Senators. IF you're in a Republican district, write demanding that this be stopped because of the pork. IF in a Democratic district, write to them about stopping the war. I told you, this is not over.

<> Like Al Gore running for the green party?

Thanks, Keith. And well done. It’s terse, but heartfelt. And this is why: When I found out Congress had basically screwed us all, I was too tired to be angry. I was just numb. Depressed. To see and hear someone else get angry was such a release, to learn that America hasn’t been completely silenced after all. And I’m glad you used the word “betrayal,” addressing our nation’s abused stepchild by its Christian name, because few others in mainstream media ever will. This government has delivered a clear message, regardless of intent. Our troops are willing to die for us, but the government doesn’t really care about them; that they’re nice, handy, shiny props when they’re alive; but messy and undesirable when they’re dead or wounded. Time to change. Time to get angry. So thanks, Keith. And well done.

THANK YOU KEITH

Kudos and thank you citizen-journalist Olbermann! The Dems, Neo-Cons, and the Bush/Cheney/Rove Revenge Machine are sure to hiccup, cough, and spew - to say nothing of spin. Onward, my friend; let the Truth set us free of their exalted and empty pontifications - to say nothing of their elected positions of public "servitude" and bloated egos. Could you be the journalist we have been waiting for since this debacle began to lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil, Haliburton, and the new world order? Thank you for your eloquence and patriotism! You make this old man proud!

Call your congress persons, your Reps and and your Senators......tell their office you will be looking to the primaries next election.......I don't care if the they are Democrats or Republicans. Pelosi and Reid can go, there are other Democrats that can run against them. We really need to send a message, one stronger then was sent last November. We must get the voice of the people acted on. Congress is there to do the people's business...if our current crop of representatives don't do it then we need people that will. Right on Kieth!

The great Japanese writer Shirow Masamune predicted in his anime and manga series "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex" that in the very near future the democratic nation known as the United States of America would cease to exist and instead be known as the Imperial American Nation. And in this American Empire, only the shadow of democracy exists, where the citizens of the American Empire only believe they have freedom and a voice in the government, and a say in what the actions of that government are, where in truth the government does at it pleases. And this American Empire threatens to dominate, and destabelize the world, as power thirsty politicians seek to broaden their power, and expand the Empire whose intrests is not in the well-being of it's citizens, but in the financial intrests of it's leaders. The fear is that this conjured imagery meant for entertainment by a masterful Japanese writer, may have in fact been an unintended prediction of a dark and very real future for this nation. A future in which the people are only fooled into thinking that their voices are heard, their freedoms protected and their intrests considered, a future in which we truely live in an American Empire. And if that is truely the case then heaven help us all, for not only will we be citizens of a nation of decite, but the subjects of it's downfall, when the entire world turns against the American Imperial nation for it's lies and decite. Pray we do not live to see the day where this doomsday senario becomes reality. For if this nation is to continue down this path, with BOTH sides of the political isle only SAYING what we want to hear, and not DOING what they were elected to do, then the American Empire has already been formed. Pray we do not see the formation of the American Empire........for ALL empires fall!

Does anyone remember the 12 million plus people who voted for a democratic government in Iraq? I didn't think so. Also, does anyone remember that Saddam was paying suicide bomber's $25,000 to blow themselves up in Israel? I wonder how much he would now be paying suicide bombers to blow themselves up in the USA? I also wonder if Libya would have a nuke by now? Gee, I guess one could say those are mute questions. Oh well, hating George Bush is just way too much fun to worry about those, among many, messy details.

Thomas Rogers: The show you were referring to was the X-Files spin-off "The Lone Gunmen", and that very prescient episode was the series pilot. I have my own copy. If anyone remembers this show or this episode, to summarize, a rogue element within the US Air Force hijacked a civilian jet by remote control and were planning on ramming it into the World Trade Center so they could begin a campaign of war against the enemies/patsies who would be blamed for it. They were thwarted at the last minute by the Lone Gunmen. Art imitating life, indeed. Required viewing if you are a 9-11 truther. Or not. Also, don't anyone be too quick to jump on the Kucinich bandwagon as an alternative "third party" type for your vote. Mr. Kucinich deserves some extra scrutiny before getting the okey-dokey, as it were. He had impeachment papers for Dick Cheney all drawn up and ready to go--then he caved, with no explanation. Chickened out, just like the rest of the Dems over Bush and his war.

Having lived through the Kennedy and King assassinations, Viet Nam, Watergate, Irangate, Reagan's reign, and now seven years of the worst president in U.S. history, it's difficult indeed to muster an iota of optimism about anything. But once in awhile something gives rise to a glimmer of hope, and KO's Special Comment last night was one such event. Keep it up, KO. You and a very few others, like Dennis Kucinich, are about the only reasons left for having any hope whatever for the future of American democracy. Thanks. Thanks again. And again. We're all in your debt.

I have 2 sons of draft age. I have friends with children in Iraq. I remember my high school years, as the Vietnam War was raging. I knew it was a foolish war, yet boys were being killed daily their - and I was afraid, afraid i would have to go. I was a senior in High School when the draft was stopped. I missed having to make any decision about serving in a War that was Wrong. It appears that America has learned nothing. Absolutely nothing. We need a leader. Someone who will stand up and say ENOUGH. Keith, maybe you have to quit this job and run. IF for no other reason than to bring passion to the debate. It might simply ignite someone to do what is right ~ none of us care what party this person is from. The debate has to be ending this war. It must be. America has in times of grave circumstance, always had a leader emerge - where is our leader?

William-Little Rock: You have no clue how to fight a war against terrorists or how to remove a despot threatening world peace as perhaps did Saddam. You don't invade and occupy another country where the obvious result will be the split and civil war infighting between the various religious sects, or that creates a training ground for 100 times the number of persons willing to perform suicide missions. And these people are now willing to do it for free (not for $25,000.). You take out nuclear installations with air power and special forces operations. You do a damn sight better job of securing your own borders. And you don't have 18 - 20 something year olds bogged down in an occupation where they have no idea who their enemy is half the time. You do train special terrorists fighting units to hunt down and cut off the head of those leading the terrorists movements. And if another replaces them then you hunt them down and take them out. But you don't send 150,000 troops to a country of millions and ask these folks to maintain security and stability for a country where the majority of the 12 million who voted for a demoicratic government want you to leave. Has nothing to do with hating Bush. It has everything to do with hating stupidity that is costing us the lives of our young men and women in a senseless and terrorists promoting occupation.

William of Arkansas, I happen to know for a fact that your statement is completely false. At no time did Hussein pay Suicide Bombers to blow themselves up in Israel. I spent quite a long time researching this topic. Hussein, in the latter days of his regime, tried to get involved in rebuilding the Palestine, but he did not support either Fatah or Hamas. This does not mean that some of that money went to the operational funds of either group, but that would have been diverted later, after he sent the money there. The same holds true for the telethon that the Saudis held a few years ago. Hussein did his best to destroy not support terrorist groups. The only terrorist he allowed to live in his country was Abu-Nidal, whom everyone thought was dead. Abu-Nidal was allowed to live in Iraq on the condition that he never so much as speak to another terrorist group ever again. Stop spewing propaganda, please.

Bush is 'solely' responsible for the deaths of tens of thousand innocent Iraqis. NOT one-(1) innocent Iraqi attacked this country on 9-11. Not 0ne-(1) Iraqi was ever linked to terrorism. Tens of thousand are now dead, tens of thousand have been maimed and millions of innocent Iraqis displaced based solely on spoon feed lies by Bush, Cheney and this entire criminal regime of "Bush Stupids!" Face it, Bush, Cheney are liars with baseless arguments to justify the daily killings in Iraq. Hussein did know how to control that country; Bush only knows lies to justify all his failures. If it wasn't about Oil Spigots, why did our military secure the oil fields long before trying to secure any peace effort! The reality is this: "If you support Bush, You are just as Bush Stupid!" Bush like most dictators-(Hussein) can only use the fear factor and SMART Americans don't buy all the LIES to create FEAR! IRAQ-(Oil Spigots) had nothing to do with 9-11.

Keith, while I usually agree with you and you are the only TV reporter that has the balls to stand up to Bush, I disagree with you that the compromise the Democrates agreed to is a failure. They had no choice. They don't have the 60 votes necessary to over-ride the veto and if they stopped the funding then they would get the blame for what happens after the troops are pulled out immediately. We know what is going to happen as soon as the US Troops leave and that is all out civil war and a blood bath. The war is a failure and you are dead right on Bush but the Democrats would get the blame that is surely due Bush if they cut off funding now. That is why in September after the surge fails that can go back an cut off funding and if the war keeps going bad they should have the votes to over-ride any veto. We can give Bush and the republicans a way to blame the democrates for the blood bath and civil war that will follow our troop pull out. Bush will do anything to blame the democrates for his failed policy including accepting more American causalites.

11am News Conference: Bush tries to 'justify' all the lies for this unprovoked war in IRAQ. Quite an insult to all free-thinking Americans! "Bush, Cheney and this entire 'party' of liars is the problem, NOT Iraq and or innocent Iraqis is the problem!" Iraq and Iraqis never ever created any 'fear' in Americans! Bush, Cheney and their entire WHIG group did! They market 'fear' to stay in POWER. Iraq-(Hussein) had absolutely NO Navy and or Air Force to ever attack America. "It's all about FEAR for POWER!" All the Lying to, Spying on is now Acceptable due to FEAR Factor of all the Iraqis are gonna come over here and get us.....What a Sad Joke on Americans! Once again; "It's all about FEAR for POWER!"

William from Little Rock, those who oppose George Bush's policies don't "hate" him for sport. (For an example of that kind of irrational political response, see the right-wing response to Clinton.) Speaking for myself (but echoing what I have heard from many others, including Republican relatives and friends), I stand against everything that Bush has done to this country. He has argued for terrorism; established what amounts to gulags and secret prisons; spied on his own people without going through the well-established legal procedures to get permission to do so; effectively set aside habeus corpus; engaged in illegal pre-emptive war; presided over a disastrous fiscal policy that will leave our children with a debt that can never be repaid; allowed an American city to drown and then gave only lip service to rebuilding it; allowed the New Orleans levees to remain at Cat Three preparedness rather than insisting that the be rebuilt to withstand a Cat 5 storm; and presided over the politicization of nearly every governmental function, including the hiring of career prosecutors. I'm not even going to start listing the damage he and his hack Karl Rove have done to people's trust in the electoral process. When I was a kid, my WWII veteran father--a Republican office holder--taught me (and his Eagle Scouts) about the Constitution, freedom of the press and religion, freedom of speech, checks and balances, the separation of church and state. He emphasized that what set Americans apart from the Nazis and the Soviets is that we don't condone torture, or imprison people without trials, or wage war on weaker nations for our own profits. I despise what George Bush has done to the country my father believed in, the one I want to live in, and the one I hope will survive for generations to come. And I fear him because he either doesn't see what he has done or he simply doesn't care.

Thank you, Keith! Your comment so eloquently expressed the absolute betrayal I felt when I heard the news about the "compromise." The Bush administration's policies are bad enough, but the Dems were indeed given a clear mandate with the 2006 election. No one, not even comedian Rush Limbaugh, had ever better throw the partisan label at you again; you have always called it as you saw it, no matter what party. Your in-depth knowledge of history and politics, as well as your ability to articulate complex issues succinctly means that you are "must-see tv" to me. Thank you, and keep up the great work.

Correction: I didn't mean to say above that George Bush had "argued for terrorism"; I meant that he had argued for a war on terrorism instead of against the terrorists who attacked on 9/11. A hasty cut and paste error. I'm sorry for the mischaracterization.

Blah! Blah! Blah! Waaa!!To say this war has no plan is a lie. Yet ,it is said over and over. Kennedy started it. Johnson had no plan except to escalate Viet Nam. Nixon had a plan but no backing at home. Carter-Iran hostages-enough said.Reagan-cold war fighter.Bush 41-cold war finish and Desert Storm. Clinton, Mogadishu and an aspirin factory.Bush 43-kept his word in spite of polls. History will tell the story

Keith, your analysis is, as always, cogent. I am deeply sorrowed by the actions (non-actions) of the party to which I have been a loyal member for lo, these many, many years. Your eloquence is a balm to my troubled spirit, however I favor somewhat sparser prose: Democratic Leadership = Wusses. Enough said.

Pablo - You say that history will tell the story, but not if you're writing it. If there was a plot there, I missed it.

Keith Olbermann for President! His "Special Comment" on Wednesday night was refreshing to hear. He very succinctly said what many of us disenfranchised American's are thinking. I am disgusted with the whole lot of those on Capital Hill who are supposed to be representing us, and this includes Senator Clinton and especially Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. I live in a "red state," so I don't expect much from Zach Wamp, Robert Corker, or LaMarr Alexander; I already know they are enemies of freedom, democracy, and the protection of our rights. I expected more from Clinton, Pelosi, and Reid. I cannot understand how there can be such rampant disregard for our constitution, how so many lies can be accepted, how this current administration can repeatedly and with arrogance be guilty of crimes and misdeameners without Clinton, Pelosi, Reid, and all the other apparently spinless democrates who are sitting back doing nothing. I cannot understand why this country is unable to make our voices heard. Our illegal aliens can certainly make themselves heard, and will have carte blanc to receive our paychecks and benefits, and our retirements. Soon we won't even have a choice of "English or Spanish." It will simply be Spanish, while Bush and his rich cronies retire to some wealthy island and lavish in monies stolen from the American public. I was never for this wrong, and illegal war, of Bush and Cheney and Rove. I despise the "Support the Troops" magnets on so many cars. I support the troops also...I want them HOME, NOW! Keith, I envy how articulate you are and I am eternally grateful that there are those few out there, like yourself, Bill Maher, and even Lou Dobbs, who are speaking against the war against the American people. Bush, Cheney, Rove, and Rice should be brought up on charges for war crimes, at the very least. This country will never recover in my lifetime from their evil wrong-doings, and it seems as if our democrats, with whom we had entrusted their support, are absolutely helpless. I say Keith Olbermann for President! See if Ralph Nader will run with you.

Trying to think of what motive Bush has for ripping the country apart. He plays a dangerous game...

Keith: You have positioned yourself as a fearless, straight-talking proponent of the crucial progressive cause - ending this tragic war. And yet you say that only "Dodd and Edwards" among the candidates have "failed us"? And you give a hard-hitting speech about the war on the very day that Dennnis Kucinich spoke for an hour to an almost empty House chamber, explaining in exquisite detail how the war has in fact been about the privitization of oil - and did not even mention that speech? You have no credibility on this issue until you get truthful and serious about what Dennis Kucinich has done and said about the war - he is the only true antiwar candidate and has been from the beginning. Thanks.

Keith, you rock, but I can't agree 100% with your message this time. The Dems cannot simply end the war now. To do so would simply play into Rove's and the RNC's playbook for 2008. I don't take much pleasure in it, but I think that the American public needs to have its nose rubbed in what passes for government and public service these days to get the big picture. End the war before 2008, you get another 20 years of corrupt, sleazy Republican nonsense. Let the Republicans hang themselves with Iraq, and see a 20 year renaissance for the Dems and progressive ideas. Unfortunately, the general public just doesn't have enough in the game to care one way or the other, for the most part. This is the most remarkable un-war state of war the country has ever been in, and the Repubs are taking every expert advantage of it. I don't know who is going to do it, but I'm certain that the American public will do the right thing if they are simply told, in detail and without omission, what has gone on in Washington from 1999 to now. No candidate, party, judge can save us now. We can only save ourselves, by demanding to know _exactly_ what happened both pre and post-9/11.

Keith is right on, I agree that the Democrats in Congress were largely just putting on an act. I wish Keith would suggest what options citizens have to try and save our Country now. I recall all the b.s. that was shoveled at us by the "Administration" and the media during the Vietnam War period, but I also remember that the media bombarded viewers with the stark brutality of the war ever day on all the major networks instead of showing sanitized little snippets of the same footage over and over as is happening now. Otherwise the similarites are mind-boggling, and if you have a good recollection of that sad period of American History, then this is a repeat and doubly depressing. The problem is that American citizens this time around are too lazy to get out enmasse and protest, and it is the men of our society who are buying into this idea that participating in violence is a good thing and will somehow miraculously bring about peace. If citizens don't make an uproar then we will have to eat the consequences, which includes rising gasoline prices and inflation and mounting problems here at home that will undermine our quality of life, along with a cold war in the Middle East. Think about this and what we have to look forward to in the years ahead if we let the government continue to become more all-powerful and unstoppable. There is absolutely nothing that dictates the US won't fall as did Rome. The Roman Empire overextened itself trying to control Europe, and convert all people to the Roman way of thinking. It became bankrupt and overrun by corruption, and utlimatley crumbled.

sadam is dead. there are no WMD's. we won. why can't we say it? we won . bring the troops home.

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