Dems must do more than follow public opinion. They need to lead it.

[BigBearJohn]

In a classic, “well, duh” headline Tuesday the Washington Post announced: “Americans Say War in Iraq Has Not Made U.S. Safer.”
( http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06
/07/AR2005060700296_pf.html )

Actually that was the original headline, which was soon softened to “Poll Finds Dimmer View of Iraq War,” subtitled, in much smaller type: “52% Say U.S. Has Not Become Safer.” It’s a good thing the Post clarified that; otherwise readers might have thought every last American man, woman and child believes the war has made us no safer, when in fact there are dozens left to arrive at that stunningly obvious conclusion.

What struck me most about the article, however, wasn’t so much that Americans have finally seen Iraq for the disaster it is -- and is about to become even more disastrous now that our pals, the Shiite leaders, have endorsed ( http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://www.nytimes.com
/2005/06/08/international/middleeast/08cnd-iraq.html&OQ=eiQ3 ... ) the Iranian-trained, Sunni-slaughtering militia -- but that the average American, with no formal training in high geopolitical theory can already see what hubristic neocons could not and will not.

Of course Texas-style congressional redistricting will make the Democrats’ job as unnecessarily troublesome as the war, but one other poll result may be of immeasurable help. “For the first time, a majority, 55 percent, also said Bush has done more to divide the country than to unite it.”

SOURCE: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m12434&l=i&size=1&hd=0

[Deep13]

1. As you say, "duh!"

I read about this in a publication called No Shit Quarterly.

[The Magistrate]

2. That Is True, Sir

It is time to attack....

"The art of war consists in a well reasoned and circumspect defensive, followed by audacious attack."