(Lindsey) Graham reaffirms questions he hears about Iraq war

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/special_packages/iraq/11985963.htm

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham again said, as he told Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld this week, that he's gotten increased questions about the war in Iraq from people back home in South Carolina.

"I've had people - Republicans, Democrats, conservatives - ask, 'Why are we over there so long?' and, 'We need to get out of there.' I've heard it louder in the last few months than I've heard it at any other time. I hear it at church, from business leaders, wherever I go," Graham told The (Columbia) State.

"It's not everybody," said Graham, a Republican from Seneca. "It's just more than it was and it seems to be tracking with what's going on nationally, this national movement where people are going sour on our presence in Iraq. There are signs of it even in South Carolina."

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If Graham's assessment is correct, College of Charleston political science professor Bill Moore says the Bush Administration should be concerned.

"When you find a state like South Carolina and a decline in support, you should be worried," Moore said. "It's not a loss of support for the military. It's a decline in support for the policy."

[Maine-ah]

1. me thinks their supply of kool-aid is running out....

[K8-EEE]

2. THIS WAR IS OVER IF WE WANT IT

With the 2006 elections coming up, nobody could afford NOT to listen to the concerns that now reflect the vast majority of the population.

ONLY the hard-core freeper chickenhawks approve of the way BushCo has managed this war, and don't mind a permanent war state.

They are MAX 25%. If the rest of us (and that includes true conservatives and true Christians) scream and holler loud enough they will HAVE to exit Iraq. They obviously want to buy/conrol the oil over there; let it be political suicide to use our troops in this way!!

This war has had all the funding they asked for, they've done it their way and the result is DISASTER.

[aquart]

14. Not yet, it isn't.

1700 plus? A drop in the bucket to VietNam. Nah, wait till they expand to Iran. THEN you'll see disaster. We won't recover for centuries. If ever.

[lovuian]

3. Its a sign that the Military is rebelling and getting ticked off!!!

Much of the Republican Base is Military families who have lived off the Defense of the country and now this regime have them dying and repeatedly placing them in harms way ... NOT for the Defense of this country but for

Greed Money and Oil that isn't going into their pockets!!!


if this keeps up NOBODY is going to enlist !!!

[RedSock]

4. generational

generational

[yorkiemommie1]

5. "It's not a loss of support for the military....

It's a decline in support for the policy"


Isn't that what we have been saying all ALong?????

[pinkpops]

6. Anybody watch the hearings? I have a question.

[deadparrot]

7. No offense to the majority of Americans who supported this invasion...

but what the hell did they think was going to happen? We invaded a coutry of human beings who don't exactly have anywhere to go, we blew up their homes and buisinesses, let crime run rampant, leave them without food or water...what? Did they think this was going to be a two-week job or something?

Maybe I'm being the stereotypical liberal elitist, but I don't get what goes through the heads of some people.

[RetroLounge]

8. "I've had people - Republicans, Democrats, conservatives "

Interesting, so Conservatives are a third party outside the mainstream.

I always thought so...

RL

[RamboLiberal]

9. Good catch RetroLounge

And about time true conservatives wake up and see what the neocons and theocons have done to the Republican party.

Maybe it's time for a new Bull Moose Party.

[Maine-ah]

10. Look at the dissent on FR

I voted at least 4 times - Disapprove
Tally when I left it was 67% disapprove should I go back and vote some more?

Just in case you ask
Run away budget
lack of action on same sex marriage
abandonment of the pro life agenda but we are still supposed to kiss his butt for restricting federal funding for stem cell research (not ending stem cell research but JUST the funding) Gee thanks GW
I could go on and on but you get the idea.



Yup I jusat register my disapproval, but the bots will rally to thier lord and master. Bot's don't care about run away spending, Bot's don't care about the borders, bot's don't care about the Bill of Rights. All the bots care about is thier "cute" ruler.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1430633/posts


This is a post requesting people to "freep" a poll, on Bush's approval rating. made me laugh!

[salin]

12. heh

i just went to the poll through their link so if the folks at the station went to see where votes were coming from - at least one of the "dispoves" comes via freep.

[WatchWhatISay]

11. The whole tone is wrong

To hear Lindsay Graham and the MSM in general tell it
Its not that people are starting to understand that we have made a terrible mistake

Its just that support is waning, suggesting that the proper message has just not been getting out lately

[mom cat]

13. "It's not a loss of support for the military. It's a decline in support

for the policy". That's putting it succinctly.