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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 10:38 AM Original message |
Will the Ft. Hood incident increase or decrease support for the war? |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 10:39 AM Response to Original message |
1. Little doubt as to how certain establishment interests will spin it |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 10:39 AM Response to Original message |
2. Those who want the war to continue will deride the opposing view |
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still_one (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 10:41 AM Response to Original message |
3. I believe it will have no effect. However, the increase in casualties coming out of Afghanistan |
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FSogol (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 10:43 AM Response to Reply #3 |
8. +1. I agree. n/t |
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ProudToBeBlueInRhody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 10:41 AM Response to Original message |
4. Neither |
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Blue-Jay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 10:41 AM Response to Original message |
5. Little to No effect. |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 10:42 AM Response to Original message |
6. Which war? Iraq is winding down. Afghanistan--I don't think it will |
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Autumn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 10:43 AM Response to Original message |
7. I'm really hoping it will decrease support for the war, |
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ginnyinWI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 10:44 AM Response to Original message |
9. my first reaction was "more fallout from the Bush years." |
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TomClash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 10:47 AM Response to Original message |
10. There's more than one war |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 10:48 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. I was thinking about Afghanistan when I wrote the OP. And the 40K troops the general wants |
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TomClash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 10:58 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. I think Iran is a tough sell |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 02:56 PM Response to Reply #14 |
23. I think so too. It's also a little late |
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TomClash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 03:12 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. There was a lot of bureaucratc pushback |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 05:11 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. You got a link on that? |
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TomClash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 07:52 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Sorry, no link |
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TomClash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 06:38 AM Response to Reply #25 |
27. Here's a taste of the bureaucratic infighting |
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SIMPLYB1980 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 10:50 AM Response to Original message |
12. Not at all. This case has no bearing on troop levels. |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 10:52 AM Response to Original message |
13. It brings the focus on the Muslims "over here" |
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C_Lawyer09 (690 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 07:23 AM Response to Reply #13 |
29. So easy to blame the system versus the criminal |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 10:40 AM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Dig a little deeper, yourself. |
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Kurt_and_Hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 11:08 AM Response to Original message |
15. Probably no effect, but if any then decrease |
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piratefish08 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 11:12 AM Response to Original message |
16. it will be spun in BOTH directions. it's already started. |
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Winterblues (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 11:22 AM Response to Original message |
17. Was this a criminal act or an "Act of War"? |
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unhappycamper (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 11:23 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. We don't torture. |
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frazzled (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 11:40 AM Response to Original message |
19. It does for me, at least in my first reaction |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
20. Faux will spin it in such a way as to increase support for this folly. nt |
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951-Riverside (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 11:43 AM Response to Original message |
21. I refuse to let a mass murdering coward influence me so I'm not going to answer that n/t |
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stray cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-06-09 12:20 PM Response to Original message |
22. Why should it affect anyone's opinion? |
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C_Lawyer09 (690 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-07-09 07:04 AM Response to Original message |
28. What about this incident supports bringing the troops home? |
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