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Posted by Blood Thirsty Christian (Guest) - Monday, July 18 2005, 1:02:30 (CEST)
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Yet as public support for the war effort wanes, the chances that we’ll wind up scrambling for the exits increase. For the American troops serving, fighting and dying there—with more than 1,700 killed so far, and many times that number maimed—this is incredibly demoralizing. "When my soldiers say to me and ask me the question whether or not they've got support from the American people or not, that worries me,” Gen. John Abizaid, the ranking commander in the Middle East, told Congress yesterday. “And they're starting to do that."

So the Bush administration will continue waving the flag, spinning the facts, playing with images of hope and fear as it tries to distract the public from the responsibility that Washington bears for what is happening. But there has been so much of that; fewer and fewer people are convinced anymore. At the end of the day, there’s probably only one thing that can unite this country behind the Iraq war again, and that would be a return to fear: a new, massive attack on the United States.

Have the terrorists themselves thought of that? Are they holding back just now, biding their time, and using the Iraqi training ground to hone their skills at slaughter? Are the terrorists fighting in Iraq precisely because they’re getting ready to face us here at home? We’ll look at those questions next week.

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