New poll numbers and the broken Murtha Plan

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The Better Part of Valor
Why the Murtha plan to get us out of Iraq won't
by Justin Raimondo

The new poll numbers on Iraq are in, and they mark a new level of discontent: a majority of Americans now favor setting a date certain for the withdrawal of U.S. troops. Fifty-six percent don't care if order is reestablished before the withdrawal begins: they just want out. As for the president's defiant "surge" strategy, more than two-thirds are opposed. In spite of these expressions of popular opposition to our foreign policy of relentless aggression, however, the two "major" political parties refuse to budge: both the Democrats and Republicans voted for this war, and they seem unwilling, in nearly equal measure, to reevaluate what Gen. William E. Odom calls the biggest strategic blunder in American military history.Read the complete article