Ron Paul is also the only politician running who supports our troops instead of thinking of them as fodder for grandoise nation building schemes concocted by the neo-cons at AEI.
Only 35 percent of the military members polled this year said they approve of the way President Bush is handling the war, while 42 percent said they disapproved. The president’s approval rating among the military is only slightly higher than for the population as a whole. In 2004, when his popularity peaked, 63 percent of the military approved of Bush’s handling of the war.
Just as telling, in this year’s poll only 41 percent of the military said the U.S. should have gone to war in Iraq in the first place, down from 65 percent in 2003. That closely reflects the beliefs of the general population today — 45 percent agreed in a recent USA Today/Gallup poll.
You have your own delusion. There is a very real need to establish a government in Iraq that is beholden to the United States. Just look at the map, for God’s sake. It’s called geo-political reality. As to the conduct of the war, it seems obvious now that the present surge should have happened a year ago. If Bush had been on top of the matter, he would have saacked his generals and, maybe, something positive might have happened before the election, or at least by now.