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    Default 36% of verterans families support the war.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20...0I6SGxq0Dq188F

    This is a big change from a couple years ago.

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    Quote Originally Posted by truthmatters View Post
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20...0I6SGxq0Dq188F

    This is a big change from a couple years ago.
    and where is the link from the results of 'a couple of years ago'?

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    Quote Originally Posted by truthmatters View Post
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20...0I6SGxq0Dq188F

    This is a big change from a couple years ago.
    So was the support more or less a couple years ago?
    A chance for a new beginning, like a dawn of reconciliation.

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    Without the controls and the questions from the polling, the results are useless.
    “… the greatest detractor from high performance is fear: fear that you are not prepared, fear that you are in over your head, fear that you are not worthy, and ultimately, fear of failure. If you can eliminate that fear—not through arrogance or just wishing difficulties away, but through hard work and preparation—you will put yourself in an incredibly powerful position to take on the challenges you face" - Pete Carroll.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dmp View Post
    Without the controls and the questions from the polling, the results are useless.
    Not to TM !!

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    Yeah polls aren't all that but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out this war has lost a lot of support since it's rather popular start. Americans don't like long wars.

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    The Media never liked ANY war run by a republican. Any drop in support is directly the fault of Media, and an Administration who doesn't refute the carnage or provide context.
    “… the greatest detractor from high performance is fear: fear that you are not prepared, fear that you are in over your head, fear that you are not worthy, and ultimately, fear of failure. If you can eliminate that fear—not through arrogance or just wishing difficulties away, but through hard work and preparation—you will put yourself in an incredibly powerful position to take on the challenges you face" - Pete Carroll.

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    There was a dem during half of vietnam and the media didn't like it any better.
    Any drop in support is directly the fault of Media, and an Administration who doesn't refute the carnage or provide context.
    Or common sense, millions of dollars a day, US troops dying far away from home, all for what? Unclear reasoning is a big problem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LiberalNation View Post
    There was a dem during half of vietnam and the media didn't like it any better.

    Or common sense, millions of dollars a day, US troops dying far away from home, all for what? Unclear reasoning is a big problem.
    No---the problem is that the media doesn't report facts without twisting them to serve their political interests.

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    At this point in the war it seems like the little boy who cried wolf. Every time you turn around it seems as though the reason is changed or the mission is accomplished or the Iraqis aren't trying. People are just fed up with the BS. The quick answer is just stop the war and lets get to our problems at home.
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    Quote Originally Posted by April15 View Post
    The quick answer is just stop the war and lets get to our problems at home.
    The better answer is to just let the military do what they need to do, and quit worrying about what mission is what mission. It's a war any way you look at it but lets make a clusterfuck out of what the mission is, was, or should be...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir Evil View Post
    The better answer is to just let the military do what they need to do, and quit worrying about what mission is what mission. It's a war any way you look at it but lets make a clusterfuck out of what the mission is, was, or should be...
    That would be a viable solution but many Americans are tired of military action period.
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    Quote Originally Posted by April15 View Post
    That would be a viable solution but many Americans are tired of military action period.
    Indeed they are but that is just one other reason as to why the military should be left alone to do what it needs to do. There are way too many people who have'nt the stomach for what a war calls for, for what realities will be faced. Now add some biased news reporting on both sides, and bam! A war lost before it is even halfway fought.

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    This isn't so much a war as an occupation of hostile lands. We won the "war" a long time ago. It was a pretty good little war, if only Bush and gotten out like Bush 1 did during Gulf we wouldn't be having this problem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LiberalNation View Post
    This isn't so much a war as an occupation of hostile lands. We won the "war" a long time ago. It was a pretty good little war, if only Bush and gotten out like Bush 1 did during Gulf we wouldn't be having this problem.
    Such knowledge yet to be had little one. The original Gulf war was a whole different creature with a different objection. You just don't walk away after a regime change. I know you think that is the best now but had it been the case you would probably fall in the same category as the rest to say the we abandoned a country after we left it lawless, and without leadership.

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