Weekend Watchdog

Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We'll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked.

And on Sunday at 4 PM ET, tune in to Air America Radio's "Seder on Sundays" program, where I'll offer the Weekend Watchdog Wrap-Up.

For Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. (ABC's This Week): Time's Joe Klein, who does not support a date certain for ending the Iraq occupation, said of your debate performance:

His granite-skulled insistence that the surge is working, "absolutely" working ... was nothing short of demagogic.

The progress in turning the Sunni tribes against Al Qaeda in Iraq is real ... But that has practically nothing to do with the "surge," which was originally all about pacifying Baghdad through the use of counterinsurgency tactics and creating the "space" for an Iraqi political resolution.

Well, Baghdad has been quieter--mostly because it has been ethnically cleaned, with many Sunnis fleeing, and is now largely under the tacit control of Muqtada Sadr's populist movement.

The U.S. troops fighting in Baghdad against the remaining Sunni militants ... are carrying Sadr's water. ...the shopkeepers and shoppers in Shorja market, where McCain took his famous walk, overwhelmingly support Sadr.

McCain never mentions this. He talks "victory" or "surrender," neither of which is an actual possibility here.

His unwillingness to talk about the complexities of the situation represents, I believe, a willful misleading of the American public.

Why have you junked the Straight Talk Express, and continue to mislead the American public?

For Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. (Fox News Sunday): On Face The Nation last week, you said, "The surge has worked. It's provided a level of security I haven't seen."

But we learned in the Washington Post this week that the military leadership is likely "cherry-picking positive indicators."

One intelligence official said they made sectarian violence look better by saying "If a bullet went through the back of the head, it's sectarian. If it went through the front, it's criminal."

And violence between Shia groups, and between Sunni groups is not counted at all.

Meanwhile the Associated Press found August was the worst month this year for civilian casualties, and the General Accountability Office found the number of attacks on civilians hasn't changed all year.

Why are you basing your judgment on cooked books?

For Sen. Joe Biden (NBC's Meet The Press): Your fellow senator and presidential hopeful Chris Dodd said that "I cannot and will not support any measure that does not have a firm and enforceable deadline to complete the redeployment of combat troops from Iraq."

Will you also refuse to support such a bill? Or would you support a bill that allows to occupation to continue indefinitely in hopes of attracting more Republican votes?

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