WATCH "The Cafferty File": Return medal, Tenet?.

Should the Iraqi parliament take a two-month summer vacation?
Why not? That's how a democracy works. Just look at how much time our politicians take off.
-Burt, Sun Lakes, Arizona

I thought the Iraqi parliament was already on vacation! Two months, ridiculous, unless our troops can be afforded the same amount of time for a little R&R! Obviously this civil war doesn't bother them too much. -Joy, Morrisville, North Carolina

Iraq's Parliamentary vacation must be a sign of Bush's surge success. I guess that means all of our active troops over there should follow suit. Bring em all home for a quick 2-month vacation. Maybe the insurgents will follow suit and the war is won! -Dan

Sure, Jack. Let them vacation in Baghdad, outside of the Green Zone. It will be just like the Fourth of July here. This is an insane idea and I find it appalling. -Susan, Atlantic Beach, Florida

Mr. Cafferty, Bush got just what he wanted: an incompetent, dysfunctional government, just like ours. I didn't realize that they hadn't already left. -R.J., Gainesville, Missouri

Some former CIA officers want George Tenet to return the Medal of Freedom and to give book royalties to soldiers wounded in Iraq. Are they right?
Jack, The letter from the 6 former CIA officers to George Tenet really hits the nail on the head. If you aren't willing to resign from your post, then you aren't prepared to be fired for giving advice to the president that he won't like. Instead, Mr. Tenet was more interested in keeping his job. He did not do his job properly, and he shouldn't now be profiting from a decision to go to war that he now states he didn't support. -N. K., Lake Forest, California

No he need not. I suspect the reason he was given a Presidential Medal is because he came through with what he was instructed to come through with. A reason for Bush to go to war in Iraq. As we hear more and more about this war it is obvious that people were given marching orders to come up with a reason. Gee, I wonder who would have given such orders. -Don, Hammond, Louisiana

Indeed they are right. Mr. Tenet's sniveling complaints against the Bush administration are nothing more than in the service of plugging his book. If his conscience were really an issue, where was it four years ago? Waiting for that Medal of Freedom? How many lives have been lost by the failure of many in the administration to speak the truth in a timely manner?
-Julie, Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Share profits of his book? How about share a jail cell with the other people who lied about this war? I can't believe these people haven't yet been held accountable for their misdeeds.
-Dominic

What does it mean if terror attacks worldwide were up 25% last year?
Jack, The astounding increase in terrorist actions from 2005 to 2006 makes it clear: the "war on terror" is not helping, it's hurting. -Timothy, Washington, D.C.

Jack, It means the terrorists think their methods are working, and that means our efforts are not convincing them otherwise. Do our leaders really understand that culture well enough to help convince them terror is not the right way? Obviously not. -Stephen, Mississippi

An easy question, Jack. It means the American and British Empire building is on schedule, and achieving expected results. -Gerald, Las Vegas, Nevada

It means a serious re-examination of this country's implementation of foreign policy is due.
-Dominick, Spokane, Washington

It means that we were justified in going to war in Iraq in order to eliminate terrorism from the world. The increase in the number of the terrorist attacks also vindicates our administration on its policy in post-Saddam Iraq. -Asghar, Orange, California

It's Bush's definition of success. -Pam, Reynoldsburg, Ohio