Washington in crisis over opposition to Iraq war

[IndianaGreen]

Washington in crisis over opposition to Iraq war
By Bill Van Auken
28 June 2005

President George W. Bush has been forced to renew his efforts at selling the war in Iraq to the American people under conditions in which Washington’s military adventure has turned into a quagmire and popular support for a withdrawal of US troops has reached an all-time high.

Bush is set to deliver a rare prime-time television address Tuesday night, using massed troops at Fort Bragg in North Carolina as his backdrop. The setting is itself highly significant, casting the president once again as the war-time “commander-in-chief,” accountable to no one because of his control over the US military.

The administration’s recent attempts to portray anyone questioning its policy in Iraq as a traitor and accomplice in the death of American troops is a measure of its growing desperation in the face of a sea-change in public opinion.

Recent polls have shown fully 60 percent of the American people favoring US withdrawal from Iraq. They further indicate that more Americans blame Bush for the war (49 percent) than Saddam Hussein (44 percent). More than half of those polled say the war was “not worth fighting,” and that it has contributed nothing to the security of the US, while fully three-quarters believe that the current casualty levels are unacceptable.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/iraq-j28.shtml

[Oversea Visitor]

1. It should be under

Seige by angry Americans who knows the truth x(

[BikeWriter]

2. You got that right.

[Oversea Visitor]

3. Feeling abit angry today

I have this sense of evil prevailing. Wrong and evil acts will just begets more wrong and evils acts. It is getting bigger, the cancer spread and grow everyday. Its hard to watch all this knowing one day this will spread worldwide. Like it or not the world will get drag in to this mess.
I can only shake my head and grief at every bombs going off and people dying.
Sadly the only way out can only be decided by US. And sadly and very likely US won't take that route.

[BikeWriter]

6. I've been enraged for the last five years. That's too damned long...

to be pissed off without taking physical action.

[oblivious]

4. "a measure of its growing desperation" -- sounds like "last throes"

[Frederik]

5. Good article

The class perspective is spot on.