I think that the Democrats, the growling that they're doing against the war, does -- it puts pressure on the White House.

General Petraeus is on a different time scale. He probably does need more time.

But, when you go after a fly with a sledgehammer, you can get the fly, but you often cause a lot of ruckus.

I think that John Edwards essentially held people's coats and let them fight it out, and he does emerge unscathed and -- and a little bit ahead.

That's obviously a big, big development, a big story, both militarily and -- and politically.

the alliance, you know, it would be cracking. And -- and his closest friend, his -- his strongest ally throughout this war would be moving in a different direction.

It's weird and botched.

It added to the sense that we were headed toward a confrontation and people were looking for ways to spark this.

There are ominous signs that we're stepping up the pressure and that they're stepping up the pressure simultaneously.

It's hard for a law and order administration too to say, well, if somebody else does it, they have to go to jail, but if it's one of ours, they don't, you know, they don't have to pay a price.

So this is building, legally and politically, this is really building.