Rallying the Nation: Support for War Spikes as Bush Sets a Deadline

ABCNews.com ^ | 3/18/03 | Gary Langer

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If this war is successful, opposition will shrink to the hard core 20% anti-Bush liberal nuts. That would be a miracle.

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All network polls and Gallup were way up last week, and yesterday, BEFORE the speech.

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Many stations last night had on in-depth gulf war history and prior history to Saddam gaining power in 1979. One thing that ABC News reported in a documentary was that the Kurds in Iraq were abandoned by us many times over the years.They live under democracy and have been screwed. Why was it that when the Kurds who were begging for helo cover to stay as an existing peaceful democracy were abandoned by us and rich Kuwait was totally given help.

Will the Kurds be considered this time around, will we utilize them while protecting them? They for many years have been trying to do what we claim to want to do with Iraq,live peacefully under a non dictatorship government.The Kurds of iraq are concerned about Turkey attacking them while we are attacking Iraq.

Also in this ABC News it was reported that the U.S. gave Turkey billions of dollars so we can use a patch of their land to attack Iraq. The Kurds are concerned. Does anyone care about them? What's the story on this? Was this ABC News report accurate? Anyone know more about this?

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Bear in mind that one of the reasons this war must be dispensed with is that the economy is in a holding state until the campaign is underway.

Bush will be reelected if the economy is in a demonstrable recovery by October of 2004. If not, he will not. Everything still depends on what Harry Truman called the "price of hogs in St. Louis". It is vital for the national security of this country that this man and his national security team be returned to office. The people on the other side are clueless, as was shown by the last time they were in power.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

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Saddam's Inner Circle

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All's well that ends well.

Boots & Coots/International Well Control sure shot up yesterday!!! Up 140%!!! (still jumping today)

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With decision made, let’s get it done

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[tallhappy]

The media will attempt to lower these support numbers ASAP.

[Grampa Dave]

Does that 20 % include the so called conservatives who hate our President even more than the left wing whackos?

They represent about 1% of the population and about 3% of Free Republic. Yesterday, they were still posting that they wouldn't vote for President GW for the way he has handled this situation. They sound like teenagers when their parents ask them to be normal humans.

Of course none of them voted for him in the first place. If I had a quarter for every reply posted that they will not vote for him, I could finance Free Republic for a couple of years.

Their heroes are Pat and Harry, two scumbags who write opeds that make their buddy Soddomite grin. Yet they condemn our president.

[tallhappy]

Re your 5, see my 12 (written before I'd read your 5).

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"It is of no concern,I have assurances from the Supreme Chancellor George W. Bush that the Iraqi Congress will be banned permanently......begin landing your troops......."

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Chris, I could not have said it better myself. We must ensure, by praying and working hard, that this good man and his excellent administration be returned to office for four more years. God help us if one these democrats running for office gets elected. It would be a disaster.

[hchutch]

Agreed. There is a faction of conservatives that seem to treat any disagreement with their agenda as a sign that one is not "truly" conservative. Often it will be on one pet issue.

If these Suslov conservatives didn't exist, the Left would have to invent them.

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I hope to God and pray that when we go deep in Bagdad and the inner circle, we rescue and find Scott Speicher alive!

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ABC NEWSlast night also seemed to take great delight in showing footage of the British parlament of (I think the one that resigned) saying something like this- "If the preganant chads in Florida had gone Al Gore's way, would we be here with this mess"?

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A good part of the recent trouble with Turkey was over what to do with the Kurds. The Turks and Kurds have a long history of annimosity, and the Turks want to make sure the Kurds do not grow into a bigger threat to Turkey.

We have traditionally supported Turkey in the past, which meant turning a blind eye to the Kurd problem. That the Kurds supported terrorism and chose a communist political model in the past made Turkey the logical side to back. It was probably not possible to stay neutral in this dispute, and we sided with Turkey.

However, Turkey's failure to support us this time around is likely to change the equation in favor of the Kurds. Good news for the Kurds, bad news for Turkey.

Unlike most middle eastern countries, the Turks are fierce fighters. They are Muslim, but not Arab, and would have been worth keeping as an ally. However, when the chips were down, Turkey stabbed us in the back. Turkey is no friend of the U.S.

If Turkey eventually grants us overfly rights, it will likely mean we have reached some kind of agreement with them regarding how the Kurds will be handled. If such an agreement cannot be reached, the situation could lead to a Turkish invasion of northern Iraq, with an associated risk of war between Turkey and the U.S. We have already publicly warned Turkey against this.