Time for a change.

On February 28, 2006, Zogby International released a poll that said that 72 percent of the US troops in Iraq said the war should end in 2006.

On December 18, 2006, CNN published poll results that indicated that only 11 percent of Americans favor sending additional troops to Iraq and fewer than 1/3 of all Americans still support the war in Iraq.

It is time for the decider and his crew to make a change. They need to retrive their heads from whatever bodily orifice it is currently located in and realize what the majority of US troops knew back in February and what the majority of US citizens realize now. The party is over. The fat lady in headed into the final chrous. No surge of new troops is needed. No strategic stikes against Iran are necessary. Just bring our men and women home right now and let the Iraq factions work out their problems however they see fit.

I do not have a bit of confidence that the decider and his crew will make that choice. I do know though that while slow to anger, the American people can be formidable when they are pissed off. If they continue to see their will thwarted by arrogant politicians they will surely act. Civil disobedience has worked in the past and if things keep going like they are going, it may have an opportunity to work again.