steve kissinger, tulsa (8/31/2007 6:09:49 AM)

Just exactly how does the senator know that they were fired upon by Al-Qaeda? This is just another example of the how the Bush administration and its party loyalists stay on message and associate our failed policy in Irag as fighting those responsible for the attacks on 9-11.

drew, tulsa (8/31/2007 7:11:33 AM)

#2 He doesn't. Al-Qaeda members make up a very small percentage of the fighters in Iraq. He's lying.

Mark Allan, Detroit (8/31/2007 7:21:31 AM)

Just goes to show how much the Iragis want and need us there. They will kill us if we try to leave. We have to stay the course and get the job done. --Yeah right--

Lori, Tulsa (8/31/2007 7:22:14 AM)

I thought the people loved us there.

Richard Cook, Naples FL (8/31/2007 8:05:30 AM)

Just another waste of tax payers dollars. This stunt was all staged by Karl Rove to garner support for W's failed revenage on Saddam Hussien for insulting his father.

This is one of the biggest disasters in American history. Everybody is just grabbing for whatever money they can suck out of this mess. That includes our own military contracting officers,the Iraqi governement officials and Dickie Cheney's company Halliburton. What a shame to continue to slaughter our youth for such unabashed greed.

An American, Tulsa (8/31/2007 8:18:43 AM)

This is NOT a terrorist threat as Inholfe put it. It is an act of war. C'mon, fly an American plane over hostile territory and think it is not going to get attacked is sheer ignorance. Quit labeling this a fight on terrorism and call it a war then...ooops...that would take an approval of congress wouldn't it Mr. President?

Mike, Tulsa (8/31/2007 8:28:17 AM)

It could have been anybody shooting at that plane; including our own military. Not that we would ever find out about it. I totally agree with #9 about why in the world are these politicians visiting a war zone. It's all about publicity.

DavidS, Tulsa (8/31/2007 8:36:45 AM)

What a waste of tax money

Michael Phillips, Tulsa (8/31/2007 9:05:45 AM)

I chose to vote Jim Inhofe over former Governor David Walters for that senate seat and I am glad that I did. I even campaigned for Senator Inhofe. Had David Walters won that race I would recognize that David Walters was my senator and I would consider anyone who tried to kill him as my country's enemy, and my enemy. It is unamerican to think that an attempt on any U.S. Senator's life is a matter to be taken lightly. I am proud to be an American first.

J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, (8/31/2007 9:22:22 AM)

vote Ron Paul! The only true conservative candidate.

LS, (8/31/2007 9:23:59 AM)

what makes anyone think it is iraqi's doing the firing? there are so many different factions there is absolutely no way to tell who fired them.they go to iraq to get first hand accounts of the situation on the ground, inlike most people who get there info from cnn or another propoganda outlet!

Sam Erican, New York (8/31/2007 9:31:19 AM)

Isn't anyone curious where Al Queda and NeoConservatism came from. Why we are in the mess we are in. Here is an interesting documentry originally aired on the BBC that shows some interesting facts about how politicians use fear in order to maintain power. It is some very relavant history that our media seems to have conveniently missed.

Go to Google Video and search for "The Power of Nightmares" I would have included a direct link but this site prohibits linking to other websites in the comments.

I found it to be highly educational, I think you might like it too. Whatch it and decide for yourself.

Displaced Tulsan, UK (but formerly of Tulsa) (8/31/2007 9:40:48 AM)

Being proud to be an American is beside the point. The sheer audacity of his attributing the attack to AQ only goes to show his continuing collaboration with the fear-mongering of the President and his administration. It's either that or ignorance. It worries me that so many people in OK will probably just believe him.

Jeremiah, (8/31/2007 10:18:22 AM)

I'm truly saddened to read all the "hatred" in these comments. This is the country you live in. Why hate it so much? These are our elected officials. We the people elected them. If this country is so bad why do so many people want in?

Tulsa Resident , (8/31/2007 10:20:59 AM)

Regardless of how you feel about Inhofe, I think it's awful you actually wish he'd been shot down. Hillary makes me sick but I would never wish her harm.

Shame on you !

lynette, tulsa (8/31/2007 10:22:26 AM)

this is how they greet the liberators! but where were the flowers??

Mark, Tulsa (8/31/2007 10:36:57 AM)

I have to agree with Tulsa Resident. Hillary is as scarey of a thought for president as Kathy Taylor is proving to be as a mayor. Yet I wish no harm to either.

LP, tulsa (8/31/2007 11:41:07 AM)

We don't hate our country, we hate the people running it if you want to call it that. Bush administration is a good example I think. Open the blind eye or abolish your dillusion of what they are feeding you with their propoganda.

JC, PEARLAND, TX (8/31/2007 1:38:22 PM)

Wow, I didn't know OK was such a bastion of anti-Americian, military-hating, far-left-wing liberalism. Wow...

Jerry Jefcoat, Bartlesville (8/31/2007 1:45:49 PM)

I am surprised at the critical comments aimed at Inhofe in this topic. To all of you who gripe about him I have a question: Do you realize Inhofe is not the problem? Inhofe has never hidden his agenda or disguised his viewpoint that the rich should get richer and the poor should get poorer and the working middle class should get poor and loose everything they have. Yet he keeps getting elected.

Just last night I read an article here on the World’s website that while nationally fewer people are falling below the poverty line, in Oklahoma the trend is in reverse. More Oklahomans are descending into poverty each year. Now 17% of the people of Oklahoma are below the income poverty level. This is a direct result of policies advocated by Inhofe and his friends. But Inhofe keeps getting elected.

The problem is the people who keep voting for him. Those people are a majority of the voters in this state. Indisputably, the people of this state want Inhofe and they want to edge closer to poverty or sink deeper into it.

All of you people, who are griping about Inhofe, let me ask you this: In the last five elections how many of you people have contributed money to an Inhofe opponent, or to the opponent of one of his allies? How many of you have walked the streets and knocked on doors passing out campaign literature? How many of you have made phone calls on behalf of Inhofe’s opponent. Let me take a guess?NONE.

In 2004 I drove to Tulsa three days a week to make phone calls for Brad Carson from May to August. There were never more than four of us making calls at any one time. That was not enough. In August I started working for a state legislature candidate. We couldn’t get more than about a dozen people to volunteer to help. That wasn’t enough. Every single campaign needed people to help.

I challenge all you who gripe about Inhofe. In 2008 give some money. Whatever you can. Even if it isn’t but a dollar. Forget about TV for just one night a week and make some phone calls. Give up an afternoon and distribute literature. The walking will do you good. The people who run against Inhofe and his allies need your help. Desperately.

If all you are going to do is gripe and complain about Inhofe, you might as well vote for him. You help to elect him anyway. To vote is important, but it is not enough.

lynette, tulsa (8/31/2007 2:02:57 PM)

on 9/11, we were unexpectedly attacked by individuals, mostly from SAUDI FREAKIN' ARABIA (none from Iraq), who, in our view, should have no beef with us. we were outraged. incensed. we became angry. we sought vengeance. we missed the target with that vengeance, invading a country wholly unrelated to what happened in 9/11.

but WE WERE ATTACKED BY TERRORISTS. they invaded us.

imagine you are an iraqi citizen. you have never met an american. you know about america, but it's a far off and distant land. maybe you feel positive about that country, maybe not. but america has nothing to do with you.

suddenly, your country is INVADED, attacked. your people are being killed. thousands and thousands ~ hundred of thousands ~ and for what? what did iraq do to cause this invasion?

NOTHING. NOT A FREAKIN' THING. iraq did NOTHING to us.

so i ask you, who are the terrorists now?

the united states of america, by virtue of invading iraq and threatening other countries, has done more to further the cause of the terrorists than anything or anyone else.

we have CREATED an al qaeda in iraq where none existed in before. we have stolen the lives of hundreds of thousands of iraqi citizens and over 3700 american citizens for NOTHING.

we haven't protected ourselves by our terrorist act against the sovereign nation of iraq. we have simply fueled the terrorist fires, justifying our initial behavior with the end result of our actions.

shame on the united states. shame. and i say that with an aching heart because i love my country. what we have done in iraq is a travesty.

george bush and his neocon and corporate cronies are liars, thieves, shameless thugs who should be tried for war crimes and locked up.

if it can ever happen, it will be years and years and years before we can undo the damage that we have done to world stability and the middle east with our unilateral and unprovoked attack on iraq.

LM, Cleveland (8/31/2007 2:46:16 PM)

How would God compare the Actions of Bill Clinton and Janet Reno at Ruby Ridge and the Branch Dividian Compound in Waco, Texas to What Saddam Hussein was supposed to have authorized?????????

LM, Cleveland (8/31/2007 2:53:20 PM)

The only way to Win is to either not fight and Pray for the Enemy or Nuke the Crap out of them.

Personally, I would Nuke Tehran and Damascus. Praying for them takes too long.

Ace Tinker, Tulsa (8/31/2007 4:07:36 PM)

Inhofe is lucky. But his intent to use the incident for some pre-existing goal of his to replace the planes makes you wonder if he didn't arrange the shooting for some political purpose.

There's no logical reason these congresspeople need to go to Iraq, it is a total waste. And no, there is no way he could know it was Al-Qaeda who fired at the plane. Could've been any of numerous sects using our weapons we've obligingly distributed all over Iraq.

Michael Phillips, Tulsa (8/31/2007 4:32:27 PM)

Jim Inhofe is not a draft dodger. He was drafted and served two years in the Army in the mid fifties. It is easy to check these things out on the web so stop the lies already. The reason he keeps getting reelected is because he is conservative and the majority of Oklahoma voters are also conservative. I don't remember how much of a margin he won his last election by, but it was considerable. Jerry in Bartlesville gives good advice about helping your candidate get elected. I plan to help Jim Inhofe with his next campaign, and that won't be the first time I have worked for him.