And emerging is a certain commonality - in UK as well as US (and apparently the case re other 'supporting' Govts of lesser import): the prevailing public opinion on this matter is being ignored, or the questions asked by pollsters are manipulated to assure a "Support Our Troops" Red Herring answer.

My observation locally is, thus far there is little sign of an Interest in this entire matter: as large as the daily mundane interests, like shopping. Yes, the usual suspects are indeed organizing demonstrations - there always remains a possibility of a confluence of these, actually including an influx of Joe Sixpacks - but that is chimerical as always. Logic has nothing whatsoever to do with these hysterical machinations.

Few (in my local stat samples) have their heads around any deep thought that they are being manipulated via overt lies of the sort familiar in these threads.. (Yes I ask oblique non-inflammatory type questions, in an effort to extirpate this attitudinal 'answer', not 'debate').

At the now accelerating speed of W's cabal - I suspect the cruise missiles will fly before any such Large-enough public demonstrations could flag a few non-somnolent politicians, at last.

We're on autopilot now. Good Luck to us all. (We can bet that the looniest are preparing to Rapture-Out.. even harder. Watch The Skies! Bring on the ME Tribulations as God Wants\ufffd. Pope Ashcroft is Ready, in any case.)



Ashton
waiting for Patriot-II, the formal retirement of the US Constitution at 'HomeLand'. (Right next to La La Land) Probably without more than a small cluck from Congress, despite the Amer. Bar Assn's recent strong statement re the erosion of liberties.