- "More and more Americans are angry," says retired
Gen. Wesley Clark
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- Americans have become increasingly frustrated with their
President's Iraq policy.
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- According to most recent surveys, just 28 percent of
Americans think the president is doing a good job, the lowest in a decade.
But pollsters say that even without running a poll; just wandering down
to the local coffee shops you will see the amount of anger and frustration
as a result of Iraq war, the mounting casualties, skyrocketing energy prices
and the government's policy.
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- "More and more Americans are angry," says retired
Gen. Wesley Clark, a Democratic presidential candidate in 2004. "They
are angry about the president's incompetence and his general unwillingness
to acknowledge with some humility that he has made some terrible and tragic
mistakes regarding the mission in Iraq."
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- Last month, thousands of American anti-war protesters,
carrying signs that read "Bush Lied, Thousands Died," and "End
the Occupation," rallied in Washington and other U.S. cities demanding
the return of U.S. troops and the end of Iraq war- It was the largest gathering
since the war began in March 2003.
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- "We believe we are at a tipping point whereby the
anti-war sentiment has now become the majority sentiment," said Brian
Becker, national coordinator for ANSWER, a famous antiwar group.
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- It's not just the Democrats or liberals who,re angry
at Bush's policy, but also conservatives and Republicans show increasing
displeasure on a variety of fronts.
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- Steven M. Warshawsky, a conservative commentator says
that "Bush clearly has retreated from the promise he made to the country
on September 20, 2001, the night he declared the War on Terror".
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- "The entire conceptual framework underlying the
Bush Doctrine has been replaced, in just a few short years, with a Vietnam-era
retread. RIP the Bush Doctrine."
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- "Our country today finds itself more bitterly divided
than at any time since the Viet Nam War. From the party of the loyal opposition
on down, we have been what I suspect is a silent majority of dissenters.
But the time for silence is now over," says Jeff Birkenstein in Counterpunch.
"The silence is ending and the people are beginning to make their
voices heard."
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- We all see the wide gap between what Bush's administration
states and battlefield realities. Contrary to the U.S. Secretary of Defense
Donald Rumsfeld's prewar prediction that the fighting "could last
six days, six weeks, I doubt six months," most of the U.S. military
deaths took place since Bush declared "major combat" was over
in May 1 2003.
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- There has long been frustration among the Americans,
but what's new today is that frustrations about Bush's Iraq policy are
being voiced by those who originally backed and encouraged the war.
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- An editorial at The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, says that
"In the case of Iraq, the American public has failed its soldiers,"
"we did not prevent the Bush administration from spending their blood
in an unnecessary war based on contrived concerns about Iraq's weapons
of mass destruction. President Bush and those around him lied, and the
rest of us let him. Harsh? Yes. True? Also yes."
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- "For us to be loyal Americans, we can't be random
and hypocritical about it. For years, being American has supposedly meant
being unified as one and supporting equality on all levels, from gender
to class to race. The land of the free and the equal seems to be the land
of the confused and the phony. Let's get it together."
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- The Americans need to step back and think, is their president
taking their nation to prosperity or to hell?
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- On the other hand, the U.S. is trying to interfere in
the Middle East policy despite the firestorm of criticism from many of
Arab nations because of its intervention, by imposing American-style reforms,
claiming it's part of its mission to bring democracy to the Third World
Nations.
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- Bush's admin needs to concentrate on the U.S. internal
problem before it loses the little support left from the American public.
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- http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=9867
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