Why pro-Iraq war (Hillary, etc) DLC Dems Will Never Win:

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"A couple of years ago, I thought the invasion of Iraq was justified," said Victor Diaz, a 30-year-old consultant in Los Angeles. "I believed the reports that stated Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and figured it would only be a matter of time before they were found."

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A majority of Americans - 54 percent in the latest Gallup Poll - now say the United States made a mistake in sending troops to Iraq. That's up from 46 percent who called the invasion a mistake in March.

A minority - just 34 percent in a Newsweek survey earlier this month, and 38 percent in a similar Associated Press-Ipsos survey - approve of Bush's handling of Iraq. That's down 10 percentage points since March in Newsweek's polling and down 8 points in AP's polling.

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In the gentle hills of upstate South Carolina, a deeply conservative bastion, the tradition of military service runs strong, and voters instinctively rally to support the troops. But the duration of the conflict in Iraq and the continuing casualty toll are stirring unease even there.

http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/12384245.htm

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These sentiments are reflected in the polling trends. When the war was a year old, in March 2004, roughly 65 percent of Americans were supporting the decision to wage it. But in the latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll, support has sagged to 44 percent. Meanwhile, 57 percent now say the war has made the United States ``less safe from terrorism'' -- a Gallup record high and a key finding because it undercuts a core Bush argument for launching the war.

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Retired Army Col. Andrew Bacevich, an expert on war and public opinion who teaches at Boston University, said: ``At this point, the president has nearly exhausted the extra moral authority that he was granted after 9/11. It's hard for people to accept battlefield deaths when they can't see where a war is going.''

``In comparison to World War II,'' he said, 1,846 ``deaths is obviously not huge. But in the context of Iraq, with the public having no clear sense of how the mission is going and where it will go -- that's why support is systematically eroding.

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Many have grown weary of waiting. Debby Boarman, a 58-year-old retiree from Evansville, Ind., voted for Bush in 2000 and 2004, but you would never know it now. During a visit Wednesday to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., she said: ``I don't think he's doing as good a job as he said he was going to do. I don't like the way he is handling Iraq -- well, he isn't handling it. . . . It's more of a lack thereof.''

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/12381373.htm


Hillary, the dems who want to increase troops by 100,00 and add trillions to the DOD budget just don't get it. The American people understand this war was based on deceit, lies, and now their gas costs more than ever and they want the troops home.But the "3rd way" Dems live in a parallel universe. And they will never win. Pathetic, that's what they are. Despicable. Losers. Liars. Neo-con wannabe's. And servants of the elite rather than the people. I am so sick of these so-called dems who want to back the majority of the Bush agenda. They will never win a national election acting like repukes but they're blinded by idiots like the DLC. The only reason Bill Clinton won was because of Perot's candidacy - and you know what, I think the country would be way better off if Perot had won. No NAFTA, GATT, etc to suck away our jobs and ship our factories overseas and make labor a commodity like coffee beans.

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