The American people have been had

[struggle4progress]

By PHILIP GAILEY
Published June 12, 2005

The war has taken a dangerous turn - not in Iraq but here at home. It has lost the support of a majority of Americans.

According to the latest Washington Post/ABC News Poll, for the first time since the war began a majority of the American public doesn't believe the toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime has made the United States more secure. The survey also found that nearly three-quarters of respondents say the casualty rate in Iraq is unacceptable; two-thirds believe the U.S. military is bogged down; 60 percent say the war was not worth fighting.

If we learned anything from Vietnam, it is that it's difficult to wage and win a protracted war without public support. Lyndon B. Johnson learned that the hard way; so will George W. Bush. Johnson used a North Vietnamese attack on U.S. vessels in the Tonkin Gulf to ask Congress for a blank check he used to dramatically escalate the war in Vietnam. Bush used the post-9/11 fear of terrorism and slanted intelligence to claim Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction that threatened our security.

In both cases, the American people were had. <snip>

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/06/12/Columns/The_American_people_h.shtml

[autorank]

1. Excellent: "If we learned anything from Vietnam" -- We Did NOT!

Why else would be buy such a stupid advanture. We are always sitting front and center in:

Short Attention Span Theater

[fooj]

3. The atrocities of war...

too many people have died.


peace.

[punpirate]

2. The quite amazing thing about these poll results...

... is that they show the degree of disgust building without significant day-to-day independent war reporting. Had that been the case, they would have been inundated with unpleasant news much earlier and these results would have come much sooner.

[fooj]

4. Excellent point.

Sooner would have been better, IMO.


peace.

[aquart]

5. Are the polls emboldening the media?

Is that even possible?

[0007]

6. Who is gonna make a case for the people of this country that

we have a lying madman that heads organized crime running this country?

"Seven months before the "shock and awe" bombing began in Baghdad, the Bush administration was bending intelligence to suit its purpose, which was to go to war come hell or high water.

Who says so? The head of British foreign intelligence, that's who.

The point is this: junior didn't level with the American people before going to war. And he still hasn't."