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Yo.

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Been a slow few days.

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What's to talk about? Everything's perfect.

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An overwhelming majority of 72% of American troops serving in Iraq think the U.S. should exit the country within the next year, and nearly one in four say the troops should leave immediately, a new Le Moyne College/Zogby International survey shows.

Oh yeah - we still got troops over there, don't we? How's that whole "Freedom is on the march" thingy doing?

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Being pelted with rose petals and annointed with perfumed water does get tiresome after a time.

S_A_M

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Unfortunately, that's probably bush's take on the survey.

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What percentage of line soldiers in WWII wanted to go home right then? I bet it was close to this number. No one wants to stay in a combat zone.

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While it's true nobody likes to be shot at, I doubt 42% of line soldiers in WWII didn't know why they were there.

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something close to that, probably blamed the Jews. Read Focus.

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How about the gas tax? A recent poll showed a majority supported an increased tax if it reduced dependence on foreign oil or if it helped reduce harm to the environment.

Separately, the NYT carried an op-ed (or was it the WSJ) proposing that any gas tax increase be offset by a reduction in the payroll tax at the bottom end--i.e., an exclusion for the first X dollars of income. Seems to counter the argument that a gas tax hits the working class the most. RT--comments (I think you were the one most concerned with this aspect of an increased gas tax).

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OASDI or Medicare or both?

It'd be donut-y, like the prescription drug benefit, to the extent it's OASDI.

Mmmm, donuts.

Also liking what Scooter's doing with saying he needs access to something he probably pretty damn sure, if not actually damn sure, he can't get, so that they have to stop the prosecution. Nice. What an ass. Though his boss is more of an ass. As is his boss's boss.

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It wasn't that refined, but I suspect OASDI. I guess it's an mmmm, doughnut, but that's not important. I suppose there's a problem with admin. because either if people change jobs, they'll underpay or people would have to get an exclusion on their income tax filing. But in principal it seems like a good way to target the benefits. retirees would be pissed of course, because they don't pay oasdi. But they can suck it because 1) they don't need to drive much and 2) they ought to stay off the roads anyway.

As for scooter, I'd blame his lawyer. But it's a criminal case--throw up what you can and see what sticks--that one didn't.

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I don't want to fight about this survey, Hank, but that is an different question, though feelings about the one undoubtedly influence the other.

The troops weren't asked -- "Do you want to go home, and when?" Rather, the question was whether _all_ U.S. troops should be withdrawn from Iraq "immediately"; "withdrawn within 6 months"; "withdrawn within 6-12 months"; or "stay as long as it takes." The responses are also sorted by service status (Reserves, NG, Regular Army, Marines) and show some differences in the views between the services.

While 52% of the Marines said the U.S. should stay as long as it takes, I bet an even larger majority would be personally happy to be sent home asap.

I could be wrong, but I doubt that a large percentage of U.S troops in WWII thought that the U.S. should just get out of the war.

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My mention of the texture of a cervix killed the board.

Pussies.

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You just made me go back and re-read your post, adn you didn't event mention the texture. Curse you!

(I've only noticed that they feel kind of hard, and that unexpected contact can give everyone involved quite a jolt, but that's for another board.)

S_A_M