The Political Voices of Women

This is from a post at Blue Bloggin.

It’s a very hard decision for military families to publicly announce their disgust with a president. However, with all the lies and failures of Bush and his administration you have to applaud these brave families for speaking out. I’m sure the Republican spin machine and war profiteers will inform us of what the military families really meant to say.

WASHINGTON – Families with ties to the military, long a reliable source of support for wartime presidents, disapprove of President Bush and his handling of the war in Iraq, with a majority concluding the invasion was not worth it, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll has found.

• The views of the military community, which includes active-duty service members, veterans and their family members, mirror those of the overall adult population, a sign that the strong military endorsement that the administration often pointed to has dwindled in the war’s fifth year.

• Nearly six out of every 10 military families disapprove of Bush’s job performance and the way he has run the war, rating him only slightly better than the general population does.

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*More on this from Blue Girl, Red State.