As a policy, "the surge" is a dud. (only 11% of Americans support)

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

NEW YORK President Bush, according to reports, is strongly considering sending a "surge" of troops to Iraq in the new year -- 20,000 or more. Sen. John McCain and Sen. Joe Lieberman have already backed such a plan. But a new poll for CNN released Monday found that this idea draws the support of only 11 percent of Americans.

Fewer than a third of Americans still support the war in Iraq, and more than half say they want U.S. troops out of the country within a year, according to the CNN poll. This 31 percent support marked a new low in the Opinion Research survey.

http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003523154

[H2O Man]

1. Last week on MSNBC,

Chris Matthews predicted that it will be viewed as similar to Nixon's expanding the violence into Cambodia. I agree with him on that.

[EFerrari]

2. Wow. This really is all they have and it's tanking.

:wow:

[dbt]

3. This will only strengthen the Little King's resolve.

He doesn't care if the only people who support him are Pickles and Barney, remember? Poppy's handpicked bailout team can't get through to him, and we all know that the will of the people amounts to no more than "focus groups" in his sodden little brain. Hell, even the opposition of his own Joint Chiefs of Staff will come to naught.

He will have his Surge and the entire planet be damned. He's the Deciderer. He gets to say what goes. (Flash back now to a certain Berlin Bunker in April of 1945 when another Deciderer decided that the people weren't worthy of him.)

Meanwhile, Madame Speaker Pelosi says impeachment is off the table and the Military Industrial Complex has both eyes on the mirror as it watches itself gavotte...

:freak:
dbt
Remember New Orleans

[rodeodance]

4. When it dawn on them that we did have an election?????????

[JohnnyLib2]

5. It's the FUNDING now, folks.

Bush won't stop; the money will talk in the next 6 months, methinks.

[MadHound]

6. Doesn't matter if the American people do not approve.

The American people didn't want to see the IWR pass either, yet it did, with Democratic help.

There's money to be made by both Bushco and the wider military industrial complex. They are going to do whatever it takes to prolong this war, keep this cash cow milking, for as long as they possibly can.

The only way to end this mess now is to defund it, cut off the cash and force Bush to bring the troops home. Sadly, it is up to our new Democratic majority to take this action, and judging by what I've seen and heard since the election, they are quite unwilling to take this step.

We have to make it crystal clear to the Dems that if they don't cut off the funding now, we will be cutting off their votes come the next election.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Wouldn't it be great if we had the power to stop income taxes from being collected until

they stopped funding this occupation? I would refuse to file this April, but they already have my money.