Post #80

Subject: Who’ll stop the rain!?!

Creedence Clearwater Revival lyrics

Long as I remember the rain been comin down.
Clouds of mystry pourin confusion on the ground.
Good men through the ages, tryin to find the sun;
And I wonder, still I wonder, who’ll stop the rain?

The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that a solid majority of Americans side with the Democrats. A nearly equal number believe that victory in Iraq isn't possible – “unwinnable,” and about only one in eight think the war has improved in the three months since Bush called for a troop increase there. "They don't see the surge working," says pollster Peter D. Hart. Instead, they are saying "we need to get out."

Yes, we do. We need to stop the bleeding for what is “unwinnable.” This month, we learned that recent graduates of West Point are choosing to leave active duty service at the highest rate in more than three decades. George W. Bush's policies are literally driving out some of our best young officers. For every day we are in Iraq, how many jihadists are recruited, how many of our best soldiers give up the military, how many Osamas do we inspire – all for what is “unwinnable?”

Indeed, the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows that 56 percent say they agree more with the Democrats in Congress who want to set a deadline for troop withdrawal, versus the 37 percent who say they agree with Bush that there shouldn't be a deadline.

Bush claimed that by sending him a bill he would somehow be forced to veto, the military would have to extend the tours of troops already in Iraq. Extending those tours, Bush said, "is unacceptable. It's unacceptable to me, it's unacceptable to our veterans, it's unacceptable to our military families, and it's unacceptable to many in this country." But yet the very next day, the administration announced it was extending the tours of every U.S. ground troop in Iraq by three months.

That kind of double-speak is so typical of what comes out of Bush, and we’re supposed to have confidence in that! Enough is enough.

Heard the singers playin, how we cheered for more.
The crowd had rushed together, tryin to keep warm.
Still the rain kept pourin, fallin on my ears.
And I wonder, still I wonder who’ll stop the rain?