Iraq War forever alters D.C. landscape

[maddezmom]

By ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press Writer
45 minutes ago



WASHINGTON - Four years into the Iraq war, about the only thing that has not changed is President Bush's insistence the fight can be won.

With more than 3,200 U.S. troops dead and still no clear way out, the political landscape could not be more different.

Public support for the war has fallen to its lowest levels. Republicans have lost control of Congress because of voters' angst over the conflict. Even the president has acknowledged the tactical approach to the war must change.

The debate on whether to launch a pre-emptive attack against a nation has given way to this question: How soon should U.S. troops leave?

"The war that we the Congress authorized the president to engage in is different than the one we're in today," acknowledged GOP Rep. C.W. Bill Young (news, bio, voting record) of Florida, an ardent Bush supporter whose seat Democrats are targeting in the 2008 elections.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070317/ap_on_go_co/iraq_war_politics

[bobthedrummer]

1. "We are therefore compelled to adopt a series of measures

that are not necessary for the war effort in themselves, but seem necessary to maintain morale at home and at the front.

The optics of the war, that is, how things outwardly appear, is of decisive importance in this fourth
year of the war.

In view of the superhuman sacrifices that the front makes each day, it has a basic right to expect that no one at home claims the right to ignore the war and its demands.

And not only the front demands this, but the overwhelming part of the homeland.

The industrious have a right to expect that if they work ten or twelve or fourteen hours a day, a lazy person does not stand next to them who thinks them foolish.

The homeland must stay pure and intact in its entirety. NOTHING MAY DISTURB THE PICTURE."

excerpt from a speech given to a select political audience in Berlin, Germany by Joseph Goebbels, 2-18-1943.

The excerpt of a Third Reich Nazi leader's wartime speech that was intended to keep the illusion of victory alive to a selected political base seems appropriate today.

Beyond all propaganda, ideology and geopolitics last November we, the people, sent a message via voting a change in leadership locally and nationally-the catalyst was the war. We, the people, said bring them home.

We, the people, support our troops. We understand that you were ordered into Iraq by lying criminals in the installed administration of George Walker Bush. We are trying to get you out of there, trying to remove those that have abused and neglected you and your families needs and will continue trying to identify and prosecute the criminals that are responsible.

Our support, prayers and hopes are for all of you to get home asap.

[maddezmom]

2. great post

:thumbsup: Bring them home and remove the traitors in the WH.....all of them.

[bobthedrummer]

3. .

[natrat]

4. its ok, think of all the money made and stolen