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The American people think the United States should not be involved in the current civil war in Libya, by an overwhelming majority. According the a new CBS News poll only 30 percent of the country believe we are doing the right thing in Libya while 59 percent believes we shouldn’t have been involved.
Opposition is strong across the board with a majority of Republicans, Democrats and Independents all thinking our involvement is the wrong move.
The fact that the people are quickly turning against the escalating conflict isn’t surprising given how it was sold. The military action in Libya has now dragged on longer than the “mere days” President Obama promised three months ago. The mission has clearly also changed from what we were told was going to be a “no fly zone” to protect civilians to regime change.
Perhaps the only political positive for Obama from our poor economy is that it prevent there from being much focus on how much the public opinion has turned against the administration’s plans for the wars in Libya and Afghanistan.
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You have at least a few choices in Amerika. Be an inmate, work for the Prison Industrial Complex, or work for the Military Industrial Complex. Hmmm, sounds awfully fucking familiar to me? But I just can’t quite put my finger on it…. Oh well, I have some inmates whose skulls need cracked. TTYL
The American people just don’t understand. Bombs, including bunker-busters, have a shelf life and they must be used, and pilots have to fly actual missions to retain proficiency. /s
Too bad we don’t live in a Democracy, then these polls would be meaningful.
Has anyone else noticed that most of us around here are usually in line with the majority of Americans, on the side of the 6 out of 10, of the 7 out of 10, of the 8 out of 10?
Americans are only center-right and corporatist when they’re lied to.
Leave it to the profiteers in Big Business and their enablers in Big Government to trick the American people into all manner of stupidity that’s against the common good of America.
WTF is the problem with the other 40%.
How many innocents have been killed by “NATO” bombs vs the # of innocents killed by Gaddafi?
U.S. now has more connection with AQ in Libya than Saddam Hussein did in Iraq.
6 in 10 voters are smarter than an American President:)
That has been my argument all along. FDL is NOT a leftie blog. It’s a centrist blog wrt policy.
And U.S.ians are not even center right even though they are cleverly lied to all the time by the rightwing nutcases and their corp media.
Reverse Darwinism
When the American people pay attention to the issues we win the war on the issues. If Obama had not lied to the Left we would be out of three wars now.
Lisa had a good piece about brain research done on pols in England Righty pols are better at social networking and judging people’s emotions from their faces. But less good at facts and organizing stuff.
The old GOP argument that FDR putting people to work did not get us out of the Great Depression but rather WW2 spending did I thought was disproved under Bush. Obama seems intent though on still disproving it.
President Putty is the President of the other 4.
The argument that resource depletion causes many empires to fall has been challenged by the fact that many Empires have organizational capabilities that let them solve the problems of growth better than their neighbors so they grew faster than their neighbors.
I think though that once an empire reaches a certain size that those who run the empire realize they can make a quick buck withholding resources Grain Shipments being late to feed Rome is one example, oil price hikes under Bush is an other example Bush was an oil man a very unsuccessful oil man due to low oil prices.
War spending takes away cash a resource in our economy but he rich surprise surprise always can find the cash for outsourcing.
Rome had a similar problem with small business vs slave labor.
But the 30 % of the other 40% will never like him ” How to lose Friends and piss off People” A book by Bush and Obama coming to a bookstore soon we should Ghost write the book then claim secret sources and WH access just like Bob Woodward does then when Bush and Obama claim we did not have access we point out that they never complain about leaks that made them look good.
I liked being an Outsider but now suddenly I belong? Ah the price of being Right about everything as the cool kids head us for disaster after disaster.
US drones in Yemen, that makes it 4 wars.
Those who seek popularity for its own sake are not successful in the long run is the message of American politics.
Yes but drones are an expensive joke if we really wanted to win we would send in Navy Seals. Drones are just corporate welfare for a very lucky defense contractor.
How many ears are we in?
Gee, why not ask how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
Can WE have our country back yet? Pretty please.
Obama, the Supreme court, Both houses of congress and the 400 richest men in America rule the world, W T F ?
Less than 1000 people screw us at the pump, at wars, at the food stores, at the supreme (pile of shit) court and from our actual (dis)honest elections ?
I don’t speak French but am beginning to understand French arithmetic and what happens when the billions of people realize that they don’t have to pay any attention to the Goldenthousand anymore and at the end the Goldenthousand might not like the attention from the little people, as happened in France in bygone days .
3 in 10 Americans support it only because Obama is for it. Of course, if President McCain had started it, those 3 in 10 would be against it and different 3 in 10 would be for it.
1 in 10 have no opinion because they don’t pay attention to these things.
all aboard..next stop for the war train is Yeman with possible stops in Syria and Iran…all aboard! Have your morals ready to hand over to Conductor Obama and be sure they are stamped as corrupt! All aboard as this train is movong fast!!
I don’t see HRC being any different. And frankly, it seems to me that it’s really about Chief Executive Syndrome. For some reason, most CEOs feel compelled to flaunt their power. And the most noticeable way for a President is to bomb people.
Can anyone convince Dennis to stop looking for a Congressional district and start considering a Presidential district?! Somebody needs to stop Obomba… and them CongressCritters are unwilling to do it.
Please… don’t even joke about this… if the POTUS starts talking about it, Lieberman may get so excited he could change his mind and run for reelection!
If Obama had not lied to the Left, the MOTUs wouldn’t have given him the nomination.