||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
GREG MITCHELL, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER - A McClatchy newspaper with a heavy
military presence in its circulation area came out for withdrawal. The
headline: "Bring Home U.S. Troops." It concludes that this war "isn't
worth a single more American life." The paper is The Olympian in
Olympia, Wash. Nearby are Ft. Lewis (which has sent tens of thousands of
troops to Iraq) and McCord Air Force Base. Daily circulation is about
32,000. . .
OLYMPIAN - Americans have had it with the war. According to a CNN poll a
week before today's holiday, only 30 percent of Americans support the
war effort - a new low in public opinion. President Bush's popularity
- the percentage of Americans who think he is doing a good job - has
eroded to the same 30 percent level.
Sixty-nine percent of those responding to the CNN-Opinion Research
Corporation poll believe things are going badly in Iraq. Only 17 percent
think the situation is improving. And President Bush is losing his base
of support - fellow Republicans. The CNN poll found 42 percent of
Republicans now believe the United States should be withdrawing troops
from Iraq.
The tide is shifting in Congress, too.
Soft-spoken and well-respected Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., shook the
capital community last week when he distanced himself from Bush and
called the Iraq War strategy a failure. . . Lugar's courageous -
albeit late - condemnation of the war in Iraq sent shock waves through
the halls of Congress. Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, followed Lugar's
lead the next day with a letter to the president that said, in part, "We
must begin to develop a comprehensive plan for our country's gradual
military disengagement from Iraq and a corresponding increase in
responsibility to the Iraqi government and its regional neighbors.". . .
It was a lie to say we invaded Iraq to protect the United States from
terrorists just as it is a lie to say leaving will aid the terrorists.
Let them wallow alone in the middle of this bitter, multi-front civil
and sectarian war. It isn't worth a single more American life.
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/24362
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
GREG MITCHELL, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER - A McClatchy newspaper with a heavy
military presence in its circulation area came out for withdrawal. The
headline: "Bring Home U.S. Troops." It concludes that this war "isn't
worth a single more American life." The paper is The Olympian in
Olympia, Wash. Nearby are Ft. Lewis (which has sent tens of thousands of
troops to Iraq) and McCord Air Force Base. Daily circulation is about
32,000. . .
OLYMPIAN - Americans have had it with the war. According to a CNN poll a
week before today's holiday, only 30 percent of Americans support the
war effort - a new low in public opinion. President Bush's popularity
- the percentage of Americans who think he is doing a good job - has
eroded to the same 30 percent level.
Sixty-nine percent of those responding to the CNN-Opinion Research
Corporation poll believe things are going badly in Iraq. Only 17 percent
think the situation is improving. And President Bush is losing his base
of support - fellow Republicans. The CNN poll found 42 percent of
Republicans now believe the United States should be withdrawing troops
from Iraq.
The tide is shifting in Congress, too.
Soft-spoken and well-respected Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., shook the
capital community last week when he distanced himself from Bush and
called the Iraq War strategy a failure. . . Lugar's courageous -
albeit late - condemnation of the war in Iraq sent shock waves through
the halls of Congress. Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, followed Lugar's
lead the next day with a letter to the president that said, in part, "We
must begin to develop a comprehensive plan for our country's gradual
military disengagement from Iraq and a corresponding increase in
responsibility to the Iraqi government and its regional neighbors.". . .
It was a lie to say we invaded Iraq to protect the United States from
terrorists just as it is a lie to say leaving will aid the terrorists.
Let them wallow alone in the middle of this bitter, multi-front civil
and sectarian war. It isn't worth a single more American life.
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/24362
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No comments:
Post a Comment