[lbo-talk] "stay the course" becoming unacceptable

[Chuck0]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> [Frank Newport, Gallup ed-in-chief, writes in this week's commentary]
> 
> Iraq
> 
> What do Americans want Bush to do about Iraq?
> 
> We asked Americans last week: "If you could talk with President Bush for 
> 15 minutes about the situation in Iraq, what would you, personally, 
> advise him to do?"
> Consistent with other polling, a majority of Americans support 
> extricating America from Iraq. This broad category of responses includes 
> those who would tell the president to pull the troops out and come home 
> (by far the dominant response to the question), those who would urge the 
> president to come up with and execute a well-thought-out exit strategy, 
> and those who would tell Bush to get the Iraqis trained and allow them 
> to run their own country. Others would advise the president to keep the 
> public better informed, join in and with work with the United Nations, 
> admit to past mistakes and apologize, and work with and improve his 
> advisers.
> The idea of waiting for democracy to take hold in Iraq seems moot to 
> Americans. A majority does not believe it will ever be possible to build 
> a stable, democratic government in that country. A "stay-the-course" 
> strategy is clearly becoming less acceptable to many Americans.

And the left's anti-war position hews more closely to the fucking 
do-nothing Democrats.

Jesus fucking christ, if there isn't a more illustrative example of how 
pathetic the Democrats are, their do-nothing stance on the war pretty 
much buries any future credibility they may have.

Bring the troops home now and folks, become anarchists.

Chuck