Reply #6: Bush cares about polls and outside pressure

[lebkuchen]

He's been forced to negotiate behind the scenes and then put up a pseudo-sober front before the public to make it look like his policies are the usual SOP, even though they're as phony as he is. Now he wants to pass his waste-wad over to the UN ASAP to save himself in Nov.

The spouses of the 1AD don't see their husbands' lives as potential "deaths to be avenged." They simply want them home.

Bush has no grand plan anymore. He's running scared. He's finished, politically. Our doing nothing for our POWs would fulfill an anti-war agenda of inadvertantly including this young man as another death statistic w/which to push the anti-war cause against Bush.

No deaths, no ammo for the cause, right? I don't want to be a party to that.