Hurricanes Decrease Support for Iraq War

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WASHINGTON -- Hurricane Katrina and its wrenching aftermath have turned public attention and already-dwindling support away from President Bush's Iraq policy. And that was before Hurricane Rita took aim at Texas.

The devastating storms are increasing pressure around the country and in Congress for an Iraq exit strategy and prompting calls for reining in spending on an increasingly unpopular war, one which could bedevil Republicans in the 2006 midterm congressional elections.

"It's a tangled picture" that will get even more complicated as those elections near, said Stephen Cimbala, a political scientist at Pennsylvania State University. "It's like Osama bin Laden's running the weather," he added, referring to the fugitive al-Qaida terror leader.

"Look, everything's changed. We didn't anticipate a $200 billion expenditure of taxpayers' dollars a month ago, and so everything's changed," said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who wants the money to come from spending cuts instead of from U.S. troop withdrawals in Iraq.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-katrina-iraq-impact,0,3496862.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines
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Its going to be alot more then 200 billion after Rita hits John.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Why don't the republicans just control the weather.... I mean they

boast about controlling everything else... and look where that's gotten us.

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[saigon68]

11. ADIOS

[HysteryDiagnosis]

8. Heh heh heh.... deleted message. I know I know... it's all BC's

fault. Old and tired at this point.

[dbt]

10. If that was the message I posted at 5:47, it had nothing to

do with BC. Google S 517 (Weather Modification Bill.)

Remember New Orleans

[smb]

13. They Do!

[pinniped]

2. It takes a disaster to detract attention from another disaster.

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[ladylibertee]

3. Yeah because Katrina and Rita are evil dictators who hate us ...

for our freedom.:eyes:

[leftchick]

4. more "sage" advice from McCain

"we can't cut and run"! fuck you john!

[Atman]

6. Spending cuts?

WHAT ABOUT THE GAZILLION DOLLARS IN TAX CUTS TO BUSH'S FRIENDS?

Jesus H. Fucking Christ, McCain! You think the dems are clueless? Nah, right now we're rudderless. You republicans idiots are the clueless ones. The money is right there under your goddam noses. Almost literally, because BushCo already sent it to you.

No, you shiftless, clueless, selfish, greedy bastard, wake the fuck up and give back the money your buddy stole from the treasury! What a concept! GIVE BACK THE MONEY, JOHN! It might even save your political hide...forget the humanity; the politics should be enough to motivate you, you bloodsucker.

(PS - 60% of Americans think YOU SUCK. You have no moral authority here. GIVE BACK OUR MONEY).

[ninkasi]

14. Bravo!

Great rant! You're right, too...they'll propose everything but rolling back the wealthy's precious tax cuts. The more Americans suffer, the worst it' going to be for them.

[Kolesar]

7. $200 bil, my sweet aunt

Who has decided that the US is going to remediated the pollution in the swamped neighborhoods and build a levee system that can withstand a Cat 5 hurricane? Nobody asked me.

[confludemocrat]

9. So all the killing and mayhem we created there is a luxury we can't afford

Jeezus, I will never trust the american publics wisdom anymore than a jew should have trusted the german peoples wisdom that they would come to their senses about hitler.

[The_Casual_Observer]

12. Even old rw shits don't like this talk about cutting medicare

instead of the Iraq war, they rely on medicare too. As long as the Iraq war had no effect on them they didn't give a shit about it.