President Bush Is not The Decider

Molly Ivins, AlterNet., has an article up that might just get your dander up what with President Bush ignoring the American public and sending troops to Iraq anyway.

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We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders and we need to raise hell.

A surge is not acceptable to the people in this country -- we have voted overwhelmingly against this war in polls (about 80 percent of the public is against escalation, and a recent Military Times poll shows only 38 percent of active military want more troops sent) and at the polls. We know this is wrong. The people understand, the people have the right to make this decision, and the people have the obligation to make sure our will is implemented.    Entire Article

 

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