Amazing. All these guys seem to be reading out of the same hymn...or is it a nursery rhyme book. So where was the famed Russertian query..."Well General, I'd you to look at these quotes from George and Dick and Paul and ....and yourself....that said that the surge was neccessary ...blah blah blah".

Oh well. I suppose Timmy doesnt want the general not to visit again.

I am getting to the point frankly where I believe the country deserves what it is getting by allowing these moronic liars to feed this crap to all and not be held accountable...and that includes members of congress. Today Basra, tomorrow Baghdad or will it be Mosul...and another set of effing excuses and lies.

well...at least I wasn't the only one paying attention this morning when he sat there and LIED through his teeth....8(

good to see it was noticed by others...8)

I was sitting there with my jaw hitting the ground and trying to figure out how they thought we were going to buy into this....8(

only other thing I noticed was that we have an ex NSA chief that is now heading up the CIA...8(

isn't it proof that now the military is running our country.....8(

I keep thinking that the American people will notice this and DEMAND a change...ya think!

it IS truly TimeforachangeNOW...

and I DON'T mean Obama!

ABOLISH this government on April 19th Patriots Day in the City of Philadelphia , Independence Hall 9am.

Take off those ribbons and he looks exactly like Elmer Fudd.

Just another member of the most rotten, corrupt and criminal administration in this nations history. No shame.

Why is the head of a civilian agency still wearing a military uniform? Who does he think he is, Mushareef? Hayden has no honor and integrity but Russert has even less.

If someone invaded this country and occupied it, we would fight like the dickens to get them out of here. I thought these chaps said they were Christians? You know? Do unto others as they would have them do unto you? Moktada al-Sadr is not an Iranian agent. He is an Iraqi nationalist trying to rid his country of a foreign occupier. You hear it said that if the United States gets out there will be problems. Yes there will be. Theirs, not ours. You can not justify something that was rotten to begin with. No Bush, no Cheney, no Clinton can change that fact.

Yea I'm "disappointed." Hey, but whats a couple of trillion dollars, 4000 American lives, tens of thousands of injured American Soldiers, millions of dead/wounded/displaced Iraqis and lost respect from the entire world? Just a "disappointment." You just want to beat this guy like a baby seal!!!

This man lied from the beginning of the interview to the end. Russert sat and listened and didn't call him on it once, just like the media did during the run up to the war. He actually expects us to believe that he and all the others knew nothing about and had nothing to do with the current action in Basra. This was a surprise sprung on them by the Iraqi government. He still talks about the WMD that Hussein had developed. Why is this delusional man in his silly uniform still allowed to sit there and try to brainwash the citizens of this country????

The events in Basra have nothing to do with the "surge" or any other screwup Bush has made IN IRAQ. Again I will point out the nature of Al Sadr or Mooky as I like to call him. Mooky is an Ayatollah! He inherited the position from his father. He wears the black turban which indicates he is a descendant of Ali and Mohamed. That would be thru Fatima, Mohamed's daughter Ali's wife. He had no sons and Ali was a nephew. Now with that background Mooky is Shiite royalty and he can do what he wants to as long as he has the military or economic where with all to accomplish it. No Shiite will judge him, in fact they will die for him and they are doing it as we speak. He is also by the fact that he is an Ayatollah an ally of Iran,period. What is happening is the destabilization of Basra so our military can not use the port as the main jump off point to mess with Iran. Basra is more strategic than Baghdad. It is the gateway to the country and is on the border with Iran. I hope someone in the government can figure this out . It is a chess game and they have time on their side.

We have meet the enemy and they are our lying ignorant politicians who conspire with the wealthy to rape the resources of the world and to hell with the people.

Russert only has follow-ups when the stakes are non-existent. For instance, he's always ready with a "gotcha" when it's a he said/she said, but when it involves actual policy, he's just another corporate eunuch waiting for his MSNBC check to clear.

It would have been far better if they had just let them have their civil war, and it would be mostly over at this point. Instead, it has not yet begun. Bush and Cheney won't be happy until they at least match the war dead in Viet Nam.

"I have no idea who this WE is that Hayden is talking about." ??? perhaps Bush and Hayden?

Maybe someone should ask him what more we 'know' we will have to go through before there is peace in Iraq, just to get a current benchmark on the administration's idea of the war. Interested parties, like the taxpayers would like to know.

As long as officers like Hayden infest the Pentagon, we are all at risk. Whatever happened to DUTY, HONOR, COUNTRY? Did it die with an Old Soldier?

Did we always know that as long as we illegally invaded a sovereign country for no good reason, that we would have to maintain a standing army in order to stamp out the brush-fires of nationalist insurgents?
The reason i ask is because we DID invaded their country. Illegally

To the Sadrists and Sunnis among others, the occupation is the cause of the insurgency.
To the uneducated and misinformed Americans, the occupation must be maintained because of the insurgency.
Dear Mr. Hayden - Please meet the enemy.
Please meet the irrational cause for the continuation of the destruction of the Iraqi people and their country.
Did we not expect an insurgency when we attacked the Iraqi people with, lest we forget, shock and awe?
If America were invaded by a foreign power, shock-and-awe style, and a foreign military occupied our country five years later, would we not expect, even hope, that a bunch of revolutionary "insurgents", you know, Americans, would continue to strive to drive out the foreign invaders.
The complete fallacy of the Bush-McCain-Hayden cabal is that there can be a victory against the insurgency that we cause by our occupation.
End the occupation.
End the cause of the insurgency.
Let the people decide if their government is legit, WITHOUT the threat of the invaders killing off more nationalists.
Let's see if we can have some peace over there.