Americans get mixed signals on future of war in Iraq

[deadparrot]

WASHINGTON - The dog days of summer are upon us, and the signals for the future in our war in Iraq are deeply mixed, deeply confused and confusing, depending on who you listen to and what you read.

Gen. George Casey, the ground commander in Iraq, says we will begin drawing down American forces in Iraq as soon as the dawn of the New Year 2006.

Surely it is no coincidence that 2006 will bring us midterm elections for a new Congress, while the polls show the American people beginning to turn against President Bush's war and his management of same. Only 38 percent of those surveyed in an AP-IPSOS poll now say they support the way the president is managing the war.

So we have a president who continues at every opportunity to say that he - and we - will "stay the course" in Iraq, while his political advisers look at the polling numbers and break out in cold sweat. What to do?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/krwashbureau/_bc_galloway_column_wa

[caligirl]

1. nuc Iran, election distraction in progress.

[neweurope]

2. That's easy. Send more troops in now "for the security

of the Iraq elections" and then pull some out for your midterm elections (of course not as many as you sent in now). They'll be applauded.

Also there is the Iran option. After the mess in Afghanistan they hurriedly started the genocide in Iraq and who still speaks of poor, poor Afghanistan? And we're hearing the war drums loud and clear, aren't we?

The problem is that people are stupid animals... it works every time *sigh* I'm very scared these days.

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[rodeodance]

3. good headline (mixed messages).

[Kolesar]

4. Vote that essay "five stars" on Yahoo

He noted that our tanks and armored personnel carriers were left in the states when the Army deployed. :wtf:

[rodeodance]

5. will do