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Poll: 57% Back Dem Senate's Plan To End Iraq War
I don't know how many polls have to show this before President Bush stops thinking that he can somehow persuade the public that they don't really support deadlines for troop withdrawal, but here's another one showing that a solid majority backs such efforts by the Dem Congress to end the Iraq war. The new Newsweek poll finds that 57% support legislation passed by the Senate this week that would set as a goal withdrawal of the troops by next March. The poll also finds that Bush's approval rating remains mired at 33%. Full poll here.
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Seems like some serious wishful thinking going on here. If the Decider cared about the public's attitudes about the disaster in Iraq, we'd be watching the implementation of the Iraq Study Group's recommendations right about now. Instead, the Dissembler in Chief keeps right on dissembling.
March 31, 2007 3:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm for that, the war was started on a fraudulent premise, and likely it'll only be concluded when Congress forces the plug to be pulled. Bush and his staunch adherents will fight that effort both tooth and nail, it will be pitched battle, but Congress does have the collective authority as a co-equal branch of government to advance legislation to bring it all to an end, and initiate a new 'way forward' that doesn't have anything to do with oil wells located in foreign countries, or the sunshine stories we've been provided pursuant to the effort to obtain access to same.
This administration bears full responsibility for the war, the lead-up to the war, as well as subjecting our citizens and taxpayers to the social and economic fallout from the war, it's now been 4 years, and this Congress was largely elected to bring about a change in policy, not only where the war itself is concerned, but in other areas, as well, most importantly bringing us back closer to a general concept of representative government, and away from the uncertain future portrayed by what we've been seeing.
The Bush administration may as well be called the War Party, for all intents and purposes, but unfortunately for them, the popularity of their endeavor is now on the wane, and a lot of people are asking a lot of questions, questions like "What happened to 1.2 trillion dollars, that we now owe, somehow?" Nevermind the issues of incompetence, graft, blatant profiteering and so forth, a war that has no real opposing army is a war for war's sake itself, and since no exit strategy has thus far become apparent, Congress is now in the process of building one. Now, whether the veto happens, well, time will tell, but if vetoed, that will put ALL the responsibility with Bush, and basically absolve Congress of not having acted 'in good faith' in accordance with the People, as basically happened with the LAST Congress, by all accounts. This Congress has now said what needed to be said, if it goes unheeded, then it's time for impeachment.
April 1, 2007 6:27 AM | Reply | Permalink