The polls are coming fast and furious at us now. Throw the new Christian Science Monitor into the mix of a conflicted populace.



Generically in favour of the goddamned $87 Billion (up to $300 Billion... growing), with the $20 Billion in grants, not loans... though it does seem like we're just taking the money and lighting a match to it. Anyway, this war and reconstruction is an inefficient model for that nobel-ish proposition called "Nation Building".

But, hey! I hear the guerrilas in Iraq are (ahem) "desperate". ... http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1028/p01s04-woiq.html