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"A year from now"
Rasmussen has updated his poll on how soon people want the troops home from Iraq. Here are some figures:
<table>
<tr>
<td>Date</td>
<td>Withdraw now</td>
<td>Home in a year</td>
<td>Stay</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>April 2, 2008</td>
<td>26%</td>
<td>39%</td>
<td>31%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>August 22, 2007</td>
<td>30%</td>
<td>33%</td>
<td>32%</td>
</tr>
</table>
That's the earliest still posted, but I think it goes back further than that.
Now take a look at these percentages. Sure, they changed a little bit, but they're basically in the same range. This means that people who wanted troops back home in a year 7.5 months ago, still want them back home a year from now. And I bet, a year from now, they'll still want them home a year from then, and so on. (At least every third person polled thinks so!)
That's what this whole "surge" trickery is about. It's the same bureaucratic BS one gets everywhere. Sure, the troops will be home a year from now. Oh yeah? Compare this to "you will receive a letter/check from us in 10 working days". You know, from now. From whenever "now" is.
How naive does one have to be to support this kind of shameless BS? The troops should be home now, not in a year, not in 10 working days. NOW!
Comments (1)
Hm, so HTML doesn't really work here after all. Well, do you best reading those numbers, then.
April 8, 2008 2:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
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