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. We should

start a pool to see how many days it will take before we see another Bush primetime press conference.

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2. At the rate Bush is going next press conference upon attacking Iran!