Opposition to Troop Increase Unchanged After Bush's Iraq Speech

Seems like no one, to speak of, is listening to Junior anymore. He is being tuned out by many, and others are counting his lies about the old lies of the administration.

He is like a cheerleader, who keeps cheering for the home team, when we all know that his policies have little to do with the home team, and everything to do with Neo-Conservative visions of American Corporate Empire for the next century. (Can we spell PNAC?)

He is cheering for a losing, idiotic, delusional team of jackasses, whose moniker, "NeoCons," will become as much of a curse-word in the future as "Liberal" has been in the past 40 years.

It is time for America to become a nation again, and not the belly of the beast; a cruel, exploitive empire.

I am one of those people who believes that even the worst of human behavior can be redeemed; not by being "born again," whatever the hell that means, but by people learning lessons, finding hope and acting, together, for the good of all.

George Bush, Dick Cheney and company, through their incompetence, their greed, their delusions, their various mental illnesses...whatever; have destroyed the American Empire they so love.

Thank God!

That may well me the only redemptive factor in all of this and if the human race understands, from this, that empire is evil, no matter who is running it, our soldiers and the Iraqis will not have died in vain.

If the peace movement, the world over, can see this opportunity for what it is, an empire being brought down from within, consciously and with purpose, perhaps the vast majority of the people of this planet can come together in such a way that another empire will be impossible.

What a gift for humanity that would be!

Opposition to Troop Increase Unchanged After Bush's Iraq Speech:

GALLUP NEWS SERVICE

PRINCETON, NJ -- There has been little change in the public's overall attitudes toward the Iraq war and the administration's proposed plans for an increase in troops in the days following President George W. Bush's speech to the nation this past Wednesday. Americans continue to oppose, by a 59% to 38% margin, President Bush's plan to increase troops in Iraq. Americans remain unconvinced that it is necessary to send new troops to Iraq to gain victory, as Bush argued, and a majority favors withdrawal of troops within one year. Most Americans continue to say the costs of the war outweigh the benefits of succeeding in Iraq, and a majority of Americans also continue to say it was a mistake to send troops to Iraq initially.

Americans are split on the issue of congressional action that would block funds for the deployment of additional troops. Although, there is majority approval for a non-binding congressional resolution voicing opposition to the surge in troops.

These results are from the weekend USA Today/Gallup poll, conducted Jan. 12-14, 2007.