Majority of Americans Have Lost Confidence in the War, Polls Show

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New polls report that for the first time, a majority of Americans reject President Bush’s contention that the war over there is making us safer over here. Indeed, barring major immediate progress in Iraq, some suggest that 2005 may well be remembered as the year when public opinion went south and never came back — a mood shift roughly analogous to 1968, when domestic confidence in the Vietnam War began its irreversible slide.

There has long been public frustration about the gap between administration statements and battlefield realities — witness Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s prewar prediction that the fighting “could last six days, six weeks, I doubt six months,” or that 92 percent of U.S. military deaths have occurred since Bush declared on May 1, 2003, that “major combat” was over.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0814-01.htm

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1. Result of the war = creation of an Islamic Republic in Iraq

Right next door to the Islamic Republic in Iran. Is THIS what Casey Sheehan and the other 1850 died for ? You tell me DUers.

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3. Ironically, at least they'd finally be free to have their own government.

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4. But but but...we'd have to actually LEAVE the country ! We CAN'T do that

Sen McCain tells us we're there for '10, 20 years...that's not so bad'

"When asked this week on CNN how long the U.S. military is likely to remain in Iraq, Senator John McCain replied "probably" 10 or 20 years. "That's not so bad," he said..."


Heads In The Sand by NYT's Bob Herbert
http://www.spectrumz.com/z/fair_use/2004/09_04.html

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5. Bush see's Chevron & Texaco working like busy little bee's

reality became a Bitch for Bush cartel.

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2. Uh huh ... time for Emmanuel Bin Goldstein to get busy ...

Duck!