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Dem,

The roof of the embassy in Saigon is what is going to happen.

Except that the Iraqis and "foreign fighters" will shoot at the helicopters with RPGs if we don't start leaving soon.

as nice as roundup as you'll find at the moderate voice, himself a professional vantriloquist.

You could see it if you watched it live (we did): while Colbert got laughs, cutaway shots showed some members of the audience unlaughing or seemingly unamused. If in show biz you measure the success of a comedy set by the duration and volume of laughs, Bush & impersonator were a smash. By THAT standard, Colbert wasn't since he got (with a few exception) mostly softer "titters."

Yet, in terms of content, Colbert's satire was more biting, had a message and was far less playful — more akin to what you'd hear in a point-of-view "set" in a comedy club. And irony is always a tougher task.

The Internet term for irony is "snark." If done poorly it can veer into the area of clumsiness and die a painful death (that seemed to be the consensus about radio talk show host Don Imus' routine at the dinner 10 years ago.). Colbert's routine didn't go that route but clearly some audience members either didn't share his assumptions, or didn't like him sharing them in public with Bush sitting there — or didn't like to be put in a position where they would laugh and show all the world that they shared them.

But unless driven off, the U.S. will not abandon the four large ``enduring'' bases that are being built, and probably not the base at the Baghdad airport. Withdrawal means: redeployment back to Kuwait and the U.A.E. etc., except for the 20,000 or so troops on those bases.

Wishful thinking.

War, insurgency, the transformation of a corrupted and persecuted society into an economically thriving and peaceful one does not happen in a few years.

The notion that we have failed is absurd. Problems. We've got plenty of problems. But we're not finished with the job yet.

The America way is to go in and do something, make mistakes, figure them out, try something different. When something changes, we change our tactics to match. But we don't give up. It's only the whiners back home who think war is perfect and Bush should be too that are a danger to the mission.

We're giving an Arab country a chance to the join the modern world. They're having a hard time of it, but Bush hasn't given up on them yet.

Giving up on Iraq is giving up on the Iraqi people. I'm not ready to give up on them yet.

Biden joins the list. Syl, the only wishful thinking, I'm afraid, is your own.

DemFromCT

Giving up on Iraq is giving up on the Iraqi people. You think that is wishful thinking? Americans have a can-do spirit and adjust to adversities. You think that is wishful thinking?

We've lost the war in Iraq. Now THAT is wishful thinking. Sad to say.

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