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To: i-node who wrote (174408)	8/23/2003 6:46:33 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1576822

<font color=green> You know what's the really fun part about this poll, and btw it was done all scientific and proper, is that if you scroll down to near the bottom of the article you will find that the number of registered voters who would welcome Bush in a second term is down to 44%. That's right 49% of the registered voters would be OPPOSED to Bush having a second term. Now, I say........does that make a statement or what?! You have a good one!<font color=black> ********************************************************** Poll: US Bogged Down in Iraq WASHINGTON (Aug. 23) - 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. The poll of 1,011 adults was taken Thursday and Friday, just after last week's suicide truck bombing at the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad that killed the top U.N. envoy there and at least 22 others. U.S. and British troops have also been targets of guerrilla attacks. Military figures show that 135 U.S. soldiers have died in Iraq since May 1, when President Bush declared the end of major combat operations there. Americans had mixed feelings over how to proceed. About 48 percent said the United States should withdraw military personnel because of the attacks, while 47 percent said the soldiers should stay. About 61 percent said the United States did the right thing in taking military action, down 7 percent from a poll taken in late July. And 72 percent say they would support turning over some authority for rebuilding Iraq to the United Nations. France, Russia, India and other countries have ruled out sending soldiers to Iraq unless a multinational force is authorized by the United Nations. The poll found that 54 percent approved of Bush's handling of the Iraqi situation, down from 58 percent in late July. <font color=red>And for the first time in a Newsweek poll, the percentage of registered voters who would not like to see Bush re-elected as president outnumbered those who supported a second term (49 percent to 44 percent).<font color=black> The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. 08/23/03 15:18 EDT Copyright 2003 The Associated Press.

To: i-node who wrote (174408)	8/24/2003 12:41:03 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1576822

Yes. If they had to have their own military industrial complex, if they had to develop their own drugs and medical technologies, if they had to have the infrastructure to support a large population, etc., these nations would fall appart at the seams. And if the United States didn't have all these things, they most certainly would have to (IF they were to maintain their standards of living). You have twisted the topic in which the initial assertion was that liberals are parasitic. A couple of points...that the US chooses to maintain a military presence in every geography of the globe has become a perversion of American politics and does not mean that countries in these regions are parasitic. This is a choice WE make. Indeed today more and more countries seek independence from this. Second, some of these countries have adequate military complexes, commensurate with the size of their economies. Denmark today contributes 1000 soldiers to Iraq, and a number of other nations dominate the multinational forces in Afghanistan and Kosovo while the French have more than 5K troops in the Congo, by themselves. Last, I would be remiss if I did not comment on a remarkable piece of nonsense you posted earlier about how your liberal customers come to you looking for tax evasion, while your conservative clients are more than happy to pay their taxes in silence. Your archie bunker mentality shines through once again. What is really sick is that i think you actually believe this hog wash...as if liberals, typically advocates of social programs synonymous with higher tax burdens, try to avoid paying their share in a concerted plot against conservatives. Poor conservatives....it's all a left wing conspiracy. LOL But you knew that, didn't you? Only you can know your bizarro version of the world. Al