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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.
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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]