Despite the best efforts of the Bush administration, assorted pundits bloggers and the traditional media (including the NY Times and Washington Post), Americans have had it with this war and think the Dems in Congress have not done enough to end the war. According to a new Pew Research Center poll:
Check out the independent numbers. They are not moving President Bush's way. The only ones who feel good about the song and dance in Washington recently were Republicans (their numbers feeling the war was getting better went up a little).
President Bush and General Petraeus convinced no one else. The American people are speaking but are the leaders really listening. What a sad state that not even a few Republicans would support a Dem troop rotation that would give them as much time at home as in Iraq. It's not enough the war goes on, the elected Republicans are fine with the suffering on top of it.
Enough is enough.
Reader Comments ( Page 1 of 1)
1. "We must take terrorism to Western countries so that it becomes a normal part of life, like nateral disasters. In that way, we will have acts of mass extermination in which people will feel their affluence also brings death....and we will have created a balance of deterrence between us and them."
OSAMA BIN LADEN VIDEO RELEASED 9-11-07
"The Third World War is raging in Iraq."
OSAMA BIN LADEN
Recently al-Qaida threatened to kill Madonna and Brittney Spears.
Should they succeed I can only imagine Tim Robbins, Sally Field, Rosie, Sean Penn and the Dixie Chicks will finally keep their mouths shut. In addition 'I the can't find U.S. or Iraq because some people don't have maps' crowd informed by NBC news, the View, National Enquirer, People Magazine and Extra will be shocked. If they can get Maddona or Brittney they could get me too!!!!
MoveOn could go from 3.3 million members to 3 overnight.
Pete at 4:37PM on Sep 20th 2007
2. Phil,
Did you notice how much media coverage was given to the mere 0.5-1% of so-called counter-protesters in DC last weekend. Also, only the SF Chronicle seemed to estimate the crowd size of approaching 100 K. All other papers only said thousands of protesters.
I saw the photo and the entire Capital Mall was full of anti-war protesters.
Read Rolling Stone about the $72M police academy we have paid for and the quality of the meals and water given to our troops by the contractors making $10s M each quarter. Huge profits for poisoning our own personnel !!!!!
Jefferson said "war profiteering is the highest form of treason"
How have we let these murderous, satanic, bandits take over our government?
How did this all happen to the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave? What happened to my beloved Country?
This is worse than Vietnam. Something very profound was accomplished by standing up to the Soviets and Viet Kong.
This Iraq War, against a manufactured enemy, is a mass psycosis; a national sickness.
The military industrial complex is now the 1st and only Political Party. We are the Beast that Eisenhower warned against.
Manfred at 6:13PM on Sep 20th 2007
3. Manfred, Pete appears to be suffering
from the malady that you just referred to.
PEACE
BOB JOHNSON at 7:12PM on Sep 20th 2007
4. The only way we can safely end this war is by electing a democrat president.
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Patrick at 8:05PM on Sep 20th 2007
5. The only way we can safely end this war is by electing a democrat president.
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Patrick at 8:06PM on Sep 20th 2007
6. PETE, MAN IM STILL LAUGHING, WISH ID HAVE THOUGHT OF IT. KEEP EM COMING! POOR MANFRED, BABY NEEDS TO TAKE A CHILL PILL AND CALM HIS MIND DOWN TO A NON BOILING LEVEL. BREATH ...EXHALE...BREATH...EXHALE...AND PATRICK, DEAR, SWEET, NAIVE PATRICK. IF YOU THINK ELECTING A DEM AS PRESIDENT IS GOING TO PUT AN END TO THE WAR... BABY YOU'VE BEEN DRINKING TO MUCH KOOL AIDE. THEY ACTUALLY HAVE YOU CONVINCED OF THAT OLD PROMISE? YOU MUST BE YOUNG...DIDNT THE DEMS RUNNING AGAINST THE REPS FOR CONGRESS IN 2006 PROMISE THE SAME THING? DARLIN' IN CASE YOU HAVENT NOTICED, THEY WON! THEY ARE NOW THE MAJORITY, THEY HAVE THE POWER TO PULL THE FUNDING. THE PRESIDENT COULDNT PAY FOR THE WAR WITHOUT THE FUNDS APPROVED BY THE DEM CONGRESS. THATS WHAT HAPPENED TO END THE VIETNAM WAR... THE FUNDING WAS PULLED BY CONGRESS. IF THESE LYING DEMS MEANT WHAT THEY SAID TO GET ELECTED, YOU DONT NEED A DEM IN THE WHITE HOUSE TO END THE WAR, THEY HAVE THE POWER NOW! POLITICIANS SAY WHAT THEY SAY TO GET ELECTED BABY, ITS PART OF THE GAME. THEY ALL KNOW THE DANGER WE FACE IF WE CUT AND RUN, SO SET BACK AND WATCH WHAT HAPPENS. IT DOESNT MATTER WHO WINS, WE ARE GOING TO BE THERE FOR A LONG TIME AND THEY "ALL" KNOW IT. THE DIFFERENCE IS...YOUR CANDIDATES ARE LYING TO YOU..THEY ARENT GETTING US OUT, THEY WILL SAY ANYTHING TO WIN. ITS POLITICS, BABY.
SAVANNA at 11:11PM on Sep 20th 2007
7. Oh, I see we are staying forever. Is that a real crystal ball or a Sears crystal ball? Baby...
Savana River, Thats the problem..... the whole lazy ass country is composed of everyone on chill pills and/or Entertainment Tonight zombies...and we let the tyrants rule unchecked.
From the dank armadillo warrens of Central Texas to the dimmed restroom stalls of Minnesota, the Closet Homosexual Power Elite (Neocon Nazi) Party acts as if Iraq is a Muslim Sudentenland annexed as the 51st State (Skull and BonesmanLand) or the fuckin' Grand Duchey of King George 'da turd...
Let them Troops eat cake.
All the little fuckin' faggot needs is a red satin dress, a big white wig...and lipstick...
Since we still have the scurge of the Republicans, so it appears that we did away with guillatines way too soon..
Sadly, Dear, our once great Country is completely broken.. and further, I'll take my crappy, irritable disposition over your mindless "Don't Worry...Be Happy"
Chill pill, indeed Madam.
Manfred at 3:50AM on Sep 21st 2007
8. SO YOU FU..ING IDIOTS ARE PLANNING TO STAY LONG IN SOMEONE ELSES LAND..RIGHT...SHAME ON YOU....OIL....OIL...RIGHT....BIG MONEY....BIG COMMISSION ...RIGHT...BAD LUCK...KING GEORGE AND THE SHOTGUN CHENEY CANT GO FOR ANOTHER TERM....THE DEMS. GOING TO WIN AND WE ARE GOING TO GET OUT OF THAT COUNTRY AND SHOW THE WORLD WHAT IS AMERICA REALLY MEAN IS....THE COUNTRY EVERYONE DREAMS...THE COUNTRY STANDS FOR THE PEACE IN THE WORLD...THE COUNTRY ALWAYS THERE TO FEED THE HUNGRY....THE COUNTRY ALWAYS THERE TO HELP AIDS....GOD BLESS AMERICA....
gt at 11:39AM on Sep 21st 2007
9. As much as I feel the Republicans have betrayed this country and continue to sell it, I just cannot vote for just any democrat. I give them the benefit of the doubt for not ending this war or at least trying to give our troops a much needed rest because their majority is not good enough for the Republicans remain stubborn and continue to defy the majority. The pissing contest has gone too far. There seems to be more efforts in proving the other side wrong rather than doing the right thing. Shame Shame.
David McCool at 1:40PM on Sep 21st 2007
10.
"Greenspan also tells the Washington Post's Bob Woodward that he actively lobbied the White House to remove Saddam Hussein for the express purpose of protecting Western control over global oil supplies."
"No, no, no," he said. Getting rid of Hussein achieved the purpose of "making certain that the existing system [of oil markets] continues to work, frankly, until we find other [energy supplies], which ultimately we will."
"Henry Kissinger echoes this view in his op-ed. "Iran has legitimate aspirations that need to be respected," he writes -- but those legitimate aspirations do not include control over the oil that the United States and other industrial countries need."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-weissman/greenspan-kissinger-oil_b_64659.html
This affair goes well beyond mere partisan politics.
vegastracon at 2:30PM on Sep 21st 2007