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08/24/2003 Archived Entry: "The polls are not being kind."
The polls are not being kind.
A couple of days ago, we posted about a Zogby poll that showed Bush's Long Slow Slide continuing. Now it looks like the polls are starting to tell the truth about how we really feel about the war as well.
With public confidence declining in President Bush's handling of the war in Iraq, nearly 70 percent of Americans feel the United States will be bogged down in the country for years without achieving its goals, a poll finds. The Newsweek poll released Saturday also found that nearly 6 of 10 people are concerned that the U.S. military will be overextended should another security threat arise outside Iraq. And 7 of 10 are concerned the costs of the war will increase the deficit and hurt the economy.
The war costs the United States roughly $1 billion per week.
Replies: 4 people speak up
$1 billion a week in a country with just under 25 million people, is over $40 per person per week.
Maybe this is simple-minded, but let's say we spent half that amount purely for rebuilding, gave each person in that country $20 a week, and got our soldiers out. Could hardly do worse than we're doing. Of course, Smirky's contractors wouldn't be getting quite as fat, so we'll have none of it.
Posted by Snabby @ 08/24/2003 08:50 PM NY
$4B a week to get your soldiers shot up?
Half a trillion in deficits to pay off your cronies?
Having your military bogged down in a shit-hole that wasn't a threat, while N.Korea gets ready to lob nukes? Priceless.
Posted by Satan Loves Republicans @ 08/25/2003 01:18 AM NY
$4B a week to get your soldiers shot up?
Half a trillion in deficits to pay off your cronies?
Having your military bogged down in a shit-hole that wasn't a threat, while N.Korea gets ready to lob nukes? Priceless.
Posted by Satan Loves Republicans @ 08/25/2003 01:19 AM NY
Wait a minute. Wait just one, goddamned minute! What happened to all those flag-waving, happy, little lemmings?
Whatever happened to:
"My country, right or wrong"
"Better dead than red"
"America, love it or leave it"
Oh, right, that was the Vietnam War. And Iraq and Vietnam have NOTHING in common. What the hell was I thinking? Sorry...
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 08/25/2003 12:46 PM NY
