Wisconsin war referendums

The results of the competing war referendums in Evansville, Wisconsin will be interesting. Both of the referendums are the products of folks on ends of the spectrum and it will be interesting to see the vote totals this small community produces.

One referendum calls for an immediate and orderly withdrawal of our troops in Iraq. One says people support "our honorable president's leadership" and calls for our troops to stay until "unquestioned victory is clearly won."

Has there ever been a war where unquestioned victory is clearly won? Was putting in that people support a president with an approval rating in the thirties a wise move?

I'm guessing most people fall somewhere in between these two referendums and I'll be interested to see how many voters that go to the polls to vote for other things choose not to vote at all on the referendums.

I don't think we should have went into Iraq and I used to firmly believe that I don't think we can leave the country to erupt into a civil war either. At this point though, it seems that no matter when we leave the country is going to have a full-scale civil war.

What needs to be done is something that I don't think our president would ever consider though. We need to admit we made a terrible mistake and hand control of helping Iraq secure itself to the international community. And unfortunately, we need to pay for it because it is a mess we created.

As long the U.S. in control of it, the battle is more about our country trying to impose what we want on Iraq rather than what is good for Iraq.

The right has been going on and on about the motivations behind the thirty-two referendums in our state calling for an end to the war in Iraq. They think people trying to set the table for impeaching President Bush are behind this. I think what they are really frightened about is that these referendums are not coming from just crazy Madison. If it was coming from the crazy liberals in Madison, they could write it off as Madison just being Madison.

I'm going to vote for the referendum to bring the troops home to help send a message to President Bush and his team. They do not seem to be listening to the polls that have been screaming for months that the majority of people do not support what is going on in Iraq.

Between voting yes and voting no, saying yes is closer to what I really want to happen.