I guess with the majority of the American public finally realizing the war was a bad idea and the reasons we went into war were lies, the Senate is finally going to stand up and do what they should have done years ago. It’s about time people stand up to Bush and his lies.
A group of senators that includes a prominent Republican war critic announced agreement Wednesday on a resolution opposing President Bush’s 21,500-troop buildup in Iraq, laying the groundwork for a major clash between the White House and Congress over the war.
The resolution would put the Senate on record as saying the U.S. commitment in Iraq “can only be sustained” with popular support among the American public and in Congress.
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The Pentagon announced the death of a Texas soldier on Sunday, raising the number of U.S. military deaths in Iraq to at least 3,000 since the war began, according to an Associated Press count.
The milestone was crossed on the final day of 2006 and at the end of the deadliest month for the American military in Iraq in the past 12 months. At least 111 U.S. service members were reported to have died in December.
American deaths in the war reached the sobering milestone even as the Bush administration sought to overhaul its strategy for an unpopular conflict that shows little sign of abating. Read more…
Let’s remember why this war started in the first place. It was the Bush Administration that made the unthinking public believe that Iraq had something to do with 9/11. This unnecessary war won’t end.
December 26th, 2006
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Sen. Joe Biden who says he is more qualified than other candidates contemplating a 2008 White House run in a telephone news conference Tuesday morning said President Bush must ‘level with the American public’ that any surge of U.S. military forces in Iraq will likely last for at least 18 months.
Biden, D-Del., will assume the chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee next month. He plans immediately to convene a series of hearings on the Iraq war a high-visibility platform for him to showcase his expertise. He’s also been actively promoting a detailed plan for peace in Iraq that would divide the country along ethnic lines. read more…
December 19th, 2006
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Support for President Bush’s management of the Iraq war has dropped to an all-time low even as his overall approval remains tepid but steady, according to a CNN poll released Monday.
The survey, conducted Friday through Sunday by Opinion Research Corp., found support for Bush’s handling of the Iraq conflict has decreased to 28 percent from 34 percent in a poll taken October 13-15.
And a record 70 percent of respondents said they disapproved of Bush’s war management, up from 64 percent in the October poll. read more…
December 17th, 2006
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Former Defense Secretary William Perry, a member of the Iraq Study Group, said Saturday that Iraq could turn into a “quagmire” if the Bush administration fails to change strategy.
Perry, who led the Pentagon under President Clinton, delivered the Democratic Party’s weekly radio address.
Referring to the Vietnam War, Perry said: “The term ‘quagmire’ recalls one of the saddest periods in American history, which we do not want to relive. But I believe that is likely to happen if we ‘stay the course’ in Iraq.”
Perry reiterated the recommendations of last week’s report from the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan commission led by former Secretary of State James A. Baker III and former Rep. Lee Hamilton. read more…
This is more bad news for Bush. People around the world are starting to realize how full of crap he really is.
Two of America’s allies in Iraq are withdrawing forces this month and a half-dozen others are debating possible pullouts or reductions, increasing pressure on Washington as calls mount to bring home U.S. troops. Bulgaria and Ukraine will begin withdrawing their combined 1,250 troops by mid-December. If Australia, Britain, Italy, Japan, Poland and South Korea reduce or recall their personnel, more than half of the non-American forces in Iraq could be gone by next summer. Yahoo
November 11th, 2005
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New polling reports came out recently:
67% of Americans feel Bush is dishonest and unethical.
82% of Americans feel Bush is ?too stubborn.?
58% of Americans disagree with Bush?s foreign policy and actions with the war (merely a year ago this number was around 48%).
36% approve of his job handling (the lowest since he?s been in office, also the lowest of any president since Nixon).
So what is Bush doing to try to gain some points? He sent his entire staff to Ethics School. How sad is that when the leader of the most powerful country in the world has to send his employees to learn the difference between right and wrong? Source: Caleb.
Vice-President Dick Cheney and a handful of others had hijacked the government’s foreign policy apparatus, deciding in secret to carry out policies that had left the US weaker and more isolated in the world, the top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell claimed on Wednesday.
In a scathing attack on the record of President George W. Bush, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to Mr Powell until last January, said: ?What I saw was a cabal between the vice-president of the United States, Richard Cheney, and the secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, on critical issues that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made. Read more…
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