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    <title>Confidence in leadership</title>
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    <![CDATA[With all of the ongoing chaos in the middle east:<br />
<br />
<ul><br />
<li>al-Qaida launching most potent strikes in Afghanistan since 2001</li><br />
<li>Iraqi government thus far failing to setup a structure that can maintain its own people and stability</li><br />
<li>Iran still chanting death to America and thumbing its nose to Britain as well</li><br />
<li>Hamas, Fatah, Abbas, West Bank, Gaza Strip, Civil War (there is a <a onclick="javascript:urchinTracker('/extlink/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Didn');" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Didn't_Start_the_Fire">Billy Joel song</a> coming in here somewhere)</li><br />
<li>the list goes on and on...</li><br />
</ul><br />
<br />
It hits a bit closer to home to see that <a onclick="javascript:urchinTracker('/extlink/www.defenselink.mil/pubs/pdfs/9010-Final-20070608.pdf');" href="http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/pdfs/9010-Final-20070608.pdf"  title="the latest DoD report on stability and security in Iraq (June 2007)">the latest 2007 DoD report on stability and security in Iraq (June 2007)</a> shows the Iraqi people with an overall confidence rating of 58% that the Iraqi government can improve the situation there.  Compare that with our own national confidence in Bush for that same time frame, <a onclick="javascript:urchinTracker('/extlink/www.galluppoll.com/content/?ci=27154');" href="http://www.galluppoll.com/content/?ci=27154" title="38% Bush Approval Rating in April 2007">38%</a>.  This is under constant rolling blackouts and threat of death.<br />
<br />
What do you do to help bring everyone out of a massive quagmire of such large proportions that is the middle east? ]]>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:15:06 -0700</pubDate>
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