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Losing hearts, winning wallets
Posted by Evan on May 6, 2004 @ 11:27AM
A new poll shows that only 42% of registered voters still think that the removal of Saddam Hussein was "worth the cost." Is it necessary to mention that "the cost" is only now revealing itself visually? First came the photos of dead American soldiers returning home in flag-draped coffins. Now there are the disturbing photos of U.S. soldiers (we seemed to have dropped the euphemistic 'coalition troops') torturing Iraqi prisoners.
All this doesn't seem to phase hard core Bush supporters. Using his stock line "the world is better off without Saddam Hussein in power..." Bush managed to raise nearly $39 million at a single event last night.
Speaking of events, the Heritage Foundation had theirs crashed last week. The ultra-conservative think tank's president addressed the luncheon full of Washington insiders and financial heavy hitters: "Too many conservatives lose hope. They doubt that the liberal welfare state can be brought to collapse." In attendance was Reagan's old Attorney General Ed Meese. You may remember Meese from such scandals as the Iran-Contra affair.
One of The Yes Men, a political-performance-art-comedy troupe, took to the podium and, dressed in a perfectly pressed 3-piece suit, blasted the war in Iraq, calling it "a case of crony corporate welfare, a market distortion on a truly gigantic scale."
He went on to declare that he wasn't satisfied with our options for president and nominated Ed Meese as an alternative.
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