NEW YORK, July 18, 2007

Poll: Most Support Iraq Timetable

CBS/NYT Poll: 61% Say Congress Shouldn't Fund War Without Timetable For Withdrawal

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(CBS)  While Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a Democratic bid to force a vote on U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq, a CBS News/New York Times poll finds a majority of Americans think Congress should not continue to fund the war unless a timetable for withdrawal is put in place.

Sixty-one percent of Americans surveyed think the war should be funded only if there's a timetable for withdrawal. Twenty-eight percent say funding should be continued without a timetable, while 8 percent think all funding for the war should be blocked, no matter what.


WHAT SHOULD CONGRESS DO ABOUT IRAQ WAR FUNDING?

Fund with timetable
61%
Allow all funding
28%
Block all funding
8%

There's a sharp political divide on the funding issue. Most Democrats (77 percent) and Independents (60 percent) think funding should be tied to a pullout timetable, while more than half of Republicans (53 percent) think funding for war should continue unfettered.

Americans remain extremely dissatisfied with the course of the war. Seventy-four percent, about the same number as last month, say the war is going badly, including 45 percent who say it's going very badly.

Again, there's a strong political split, with large majorities of Democrats (91 percent) and Independents (76 percent) saying the war is going badly, while half of Republicans say it's going well.

HOW IS THE WAR GOING?

Total
Well
25%
Badly
74%

Republicans
Well
49%
Badly
50%

Democrats
Well
8%
Badly
91%

Independents
Well
22%
Badly
76%

More than half of Americans (51 percent) surveyed do not think President Bush's recent troop surge is having any impact on the situation in Iraq. Sixty-three percent think the number of U.S. troops should be decreased, including one in three that says all U.S. troops should be removed. Eighteen percent think the U.S. troop level should stay the same; 12 percent say it should be increased.

The poll also looked at views of the war by gender. While a majority of both men and women think the war is going badly, more women (67 percent) than men (54 percent) say funding for the war should be tied to a troop withdrawal timetable; more men (35 percent) than women (21 percent) think funding for the war should be allowed, no matter what.

This poll was conducted among a random sample of 1,554 adults nationwide, interviewed by telephone from July 9-17, 2007. The error due to sampling for results based on the entire sample could be plus or minus three percentage points. The error for subgroups is higher. An oversample of women was also conducted for this poll, for a total of 1,068 interviews among this group, by selecting them with higher probability than men in households with both men and women. The weights of men and women in mixed-gender households were adjusted to compensate for their different probabilities of selection. The final weighted distribution of men and women in the sample is in proportion to the composition of the adult population in the U.S. Census.


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by pepperp1 July 18, 2007 6:50 PM PDT
Contact your Senator demand a new strategy for our troops, some are being required to return for their 5th rotation and 3 die every day, 600 killed unnecessary wasted deaths because of the surge. Bush is either delusional or incapable of changing course. Demand an exit strategy and a timeline for the withdrawal leaving this mess for the next President is COWARDLY and costly both in soldiers lives and our treasury. Al Qaeda regroups on the border of Afghanistan the real killers of 911, while our troops have been farmed out to steal control of Iraq oil for Cheneys secert energy policy.

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by rharrin1 July 18, 2007 6:51 PM PDT
After the next election there will be no more blocking.
Republicans will not do as the voters want them to do as a result the republican party will be no more than a bad memory.
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by one_american July 18, 2007 6:52 PM PDT
The conclusion to draw from these polls?

Liberals are idiots, and should not be entrusted with military matters.
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by drummer94 July 18, 2007 6:59 PM PDT
CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? Friggin chickenshiit repugs just won't admit the war is going badly, and was wrong from the get go. That's especially true of the head shiit, loony-toon. How come I don't hear the rpugs on these boards beefin' about how the democrats don't offer a solution to bail out their party out of this mess. Well, last night....
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by actornaught July 18, 2007 7:00 PM PDT
"Liberals are idiots, and should not be entrusted with military matters."

I know the pop hate radio fans have totally mangled the definition of liberal, but now it includes w, d!ck, and their ilk.

... every day ...
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by pepperp1 July 18, 2007 7:02 PM PDT
President Bush%u2019s top counterterrorism advisers acknowledged Tuesday that the strategy for fighting Osama bin Laden%u2019s leadership of Al Qaeda in Pakistan had failed, as the White House released a grim new intelligence assessment.

HOW MANY FAILURES are you apologist Repug pansy going to allow your boy George until YOU demand he resign, wrong, mistake after mistake, wrong failed and you are responsible for putting his sorry *** in office, go have a beer George who is and always has been an untalented neo con puppet in office, YOU should remedy this mess.
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by skyk-2009 July 18, 2007 7:07 PM PDT
HOW MANY FAILURES are you apologist Repug pansy going to allow your boy George until YOU demand he resign, wrong, mistake after mistake, wrong failed and you are responsible for putting his sorry *** in office, go have a beer George who is and always has been an untalented neo con puppet in office, YOU should remedy this mess.
Posted by pepperp1 at 07:02 PM : Jul 18, 2007
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I agree completely. Instead of trying to find someone else to blame or point fingers at fictional american's calling them "liberal's", they should step up to the Plate here. We're all American's FIRST and they have an Incompetent and a Fraud in office.
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by skyk-2009 July 18, 2007 7:11 PM PDT
Liberals are idiots, and should not be entrusted with military matters.
Posted by One_American at 06:52 PM : Jul 18, 2007
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Haven't we had enough of this garbage? Anyone who doesn't march to the party line, or should I say the Southern Fascist line is a "Liberal" and therefore not qualified to be an American. I grew up with this trash, listened to it while lower than life creatures lynched and bombed people because of the color of their skin and now I have to listen to it because I and so many like me tell the truth about and Incompetent Leader who happens to be a Southern Fascist. Enough already!! Go get a HISTORY Book PLEASE!! Read about all the great leaders in our history and discover that all, every last one of them was a LIBERAL!! Time for you low life freaks to either be AMERICAN or get the H-e-LL out of the way...
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by condumism July 18, 2007 7:26 PM PDT
The conclusion to draw from these polls? Those 49% Repuglicons that say the war is going well are mostly, if not all Southern hypocrits, that have hated the USA since we slaughtered their traitorous ancestors in the US Civil War.
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by seven-pesos July 18, 2007 7:26 PM PDT
the war in iraq would end tomorrow if the south stopped supporting george bush.

think that'll happen?

i doubt it!

the south thrives on death, hate, war, arrogance, death and destruction.

ha,ha,ha.

that's the south for you, folks!
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by seven-pesos July 18, 2007 7:29 PM PDT
never a war the south couldn't lose.

jefferson davis lost his,
johnson lost his
bush will lose his.

the south has lost every war they started.

idiot southern creeps are only good for sunday afternoon parades

in their tight-butt uniforms.

ha,ha,ha.

war, division, arrogance, phony christian creeps, crooked republican snakes...

nothing good comes out of the south!
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by seven-pesos July 18, 2007 7:32 PM PDT
southerners are hoping to elect another faith professing, conservative republican.

they hope to win the all time loser's award.

jefferson davis lost his war...
johnson lost his war...
bush will lose his war...

if the south can lose just one more war,

they will beat the french for wars lost.

ha,ha,ha.

those idiot southern creeps ought to stay on the parade field.

they're not suited for fighting america's wars.

nothing good comes out of the south.
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by Syndicate July 18, 2007 7:37 PM PDT
pepperp1: Since you read the report you also know that Al Queda is rooting for the Democrats and hoping they get their way in Iraq. Thats what it says. Actually it says something more like Al queda surges violent attacks against civilians to influence the debate on the war when ever it comes up in congress and of course the Democrats play their part by pointing out the violence. I wonder if the Democrats have a direct line to Pakistan. I wonder if they have a strategy meeting every wednesday.


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by hschwarz2 July 18, 2007 7:40 PM PDT
The Republican macho men keep telling us that this so-called war is just like WWll,where we fought the Nazis,every bit as important. During WWll FDR sent 4 of his sons into war. Has Bush, Cheney, and the gang sent any of their own kids to this all important war? Of course not,because Bush says that his daughters volunteer from time time, in between getting drunk in foreign countries, to read books to school kids. Arm chair warriors like Linsay Graham hide behind patriotism, while others, the true patriots, give their lives for nothing but Bush's delusions.
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by gkc99 July 18, 2007 7:44 PM PDT
That's the nice thing about being Fuhrer, the Tiny Texass Tyrant doesn't need to worry about polls. He's got Darth Chickenshit covering his rear.
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by Syndicate July 18, 2007 7:47 PM PDT
I have not sent any of my sons either. But thats mostly because they are 9, 6, and 5, but hey I started their training early. My nine year old watches the military channel with me. He understands what freedom is and knows that people are dying so that he may have a chance at it.
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by Syndicate July 18, 2007 7:50 PM PDT
The only poll that matters to the President was in November of '04. You know the one were a lot of people said F@*$ No to the Democrats.
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by one_american July 18, 2007 7:53 PM PDT
More "poll dancing" by CBS...

When will the liberal elitists learn that polls mean nothing?
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by vet_sk July 18, 2007 7:53 PM PDT
Can you imagine being so dissolusioned to say to a pollster that the war is going "Well".

The only thing I can think is that they are trying to protect the troops. Well I was a troop over their and it is a disaster. The troops know it and it is only those who watch too much TV who believe that the people back home have to believe in the war to support the troops. Rediculous to the 10th degree.
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by roger_inkart July 18, 2007 7:53 PM PDT
Independents
Well
22%
Badly
76%

This is what's going to KILL the GOP next year. All the moderates and independents that voted your way in '00 and '04 will be basically GONE. The truth is you needed them as much as the ultra-conservative Christians you shamlessly pander to. Now you've allienated most of them with your corruption and insane support for the Iraq war.
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by vet_sk July 18, 2007 7:56 PM PDT
And cbscrash07 and One_American are happy that the President does not care what the people want. Democracy anyone??? or is that just for our good friends in the middle east?
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by perception5 July 18, 2007 7:57 PM PDT
***** The tide is turning ******* watch out Dems. With our DO-NOTHING DEMOCRAT CONGRESS AT 14% approval (lowest ever recorded by Gallup in 35 years). Looks like our President is starting to get a little mojo going.

From Rasussen Reports:

Bush Job Approval Steady at 39%
President Bush%u2019s firm position on Iraq has firmed up his Job Approval numbers. For the fifth straight day, 39% of Americans say they approve of the way the President his performing his job.

Our corrupt liberal MSM wolfpack needs to come ASAP to help their leaderless, and classless Democrat pals in Congress with some heavy doses of propaganda. CBS (Corrupt Broadcasting Station) get with the NYTimes and run a poll and when the results come in manipulate the numbers until you get the results you wanted.

I grew up in Washington DC ever since Lady Bird started her planting of flowers around the city, but I've never seen a more corrupt liberal press nor a more combative bunch of liberal Democrat Congressman............ EVER and it's really sad.
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by pastdue1 July 18, 2007 7:58 PM PDT
email your Senator
http://your senators last name.senate.gov
send him this from the NIE reports just in case he hasn't read it. "In many respects, the National Intelligence Estimate suggests the threat of terrorist violence against the United States is growing worse, fueled by the Iraq War and subsequent spreading of Islamic extremism"

Another excerpt:
"All told, despite the absence of any new attack on American soil since 2001, the conclusion that Al Qaeda %u201Cwill continue to enhance its capabilities%u201D to attack the United States suggests some miscalculation in the administration%u2019s basic formula against terrorism: that attacking the jihadists overseas would protect the homeland."

Ask your senator why we are still staying the course and saying that we must fight them over there so we won't have to fight them at home. It is important for all Americans who want to change the direction that our country is taking to let their representatives know. Everyone needs to flood their offices. It is the first step to getting responsible leadership for our country.

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by pepperp1 July 18, 2007 8:01 PM PDT
It absolutely is about oil and control of the oil reserves in Iraq, we invaded a country that was not a threat, lost almost 4,000 US soldiers 28,000 wounded many with life long injuries and tens of thousands of women, children and men Iraq's for our oil fix. Just like and addict would decided, the fix justifies the means, steal what you need if supply is endangered. Bush believes the Cheney puppetry of his inadequacies, that he will be greeted as a hero flowers in the street, that this country one day will thank him for keeping the oil flowing and putting off the oil withdrawal we must some day face. History will not change the view, this President will be judged as we judge him today, for his failed dishonorable acts, in our name, on our dime....
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by one_american July 18, 2007 8:03 PM PDT
Why is the New York Times and CBS afraid to take a poll that asks the following question?

"Do you believe it is important to win this war against al-Qaeda we are fighting in Iraq?"

The reason is because New York Times and CBS are trying to steer public opinion to benefit the Democrat Party's agenda.

In other words, they don't report the news; they MAKE IT ALL UP.
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by tuckerndfw July 18, 2007 8:04 PM PDT
US combat forces are creating more terrorists than they are eliminating.

It only makes sense to stop creating terrorists.

Al qaida in Iraq is threatened more by a troop withdrawal than any other faction. Al qaida are Sunnis, the majority of Iraqis are Shias. When US forces stop protecting al qaida, Shias will eliminate them.
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by donnie900 July 18, 2007 8:04 PM PDT
I don't believe its important. If it was important they wouldn't have lied about everything.

Actually I think its kinda weird how the USA has had so much interest in that country for so long.
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by hawksprings July 18, 2007 8:07 PM PDT

I agree, One_American.

Let's ask people if we should win the war.

The Democrat Party can't afford for the US to win in Iraq. Their success as a party is tied to the US losing in Iraq and pulling out. CBS stories like this just help their cause.

Their party symbol fits them well.

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by tuckerndfw July 18, 2007 8:08 PM PDT
"Do you believe it is important to win this war against al-Qaeda we are fighting in Iraq?"

Posted by One_American at 08:03 PM : Jul 18, 2007

The reason is because that is not a legitimate poll question. That is called "push polling" and indicates the questioner is promoting an agenda.
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by donnie900 July 18, 2007 8:08 PM PDT
You know what the Bush administration accomplished? Sympathy.. Sympathy for the greatest disaster in US history. Sympathy in the enemy..
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by xzavierbrown July 18, 2007 8:09 PM PDT
cbs/ny times poll????

they should had taken one at berkley and at the 'no war for oil" protest to seal the deal
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by donnie900 July 18, 2007 8:11 PM PDT
I didn't think anybody could do that.

The tide is turning alright.. towards Islamic extremism.
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by ioweign July 18, 2007 8:13 PM PDT
More "poll dancing" by CBS...

When will the liberal elitists learn that polls mean nothing?
Posted by One_American at 07:53 PM : Jul 18, 2007

Only if they are done on DieBold
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by actornaught July 18, 2007 8:14 PM PDT
hawk/One, to say that anyone here wants failure in Iraq is just being ignorant.

However, Iraq was lost when the looting started and nothing was done to gain control.

w has lied about everything, why should we believe what he says will happen if we leave Iraq now to the Iraqi's?
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by donnie900 July 18, 2007 8:17 PM PDT
I want failure in Iraq. You know what it means? Philosophically I mean? If people like Bush win in Iraq? You know what kind of enabling that'd be?
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by drummer94 July 18, 2007 8:18 PM PDT
Tell us hawk, what are we supposed to win? Oil? A new ally? What now that shrub created a new terror group, Al Queda in Iraq? Al Queda was/is in Afghanistan.
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by jumkey July 18, 2007 8:19 PM PDT
What the PEOPLE what?

Come on CBS News, you know Republicans politicians don't care what the people want. They're Authoritarians - THEY tell the people what to do, not the other way around.

And the average Republican wants to be led around like a child, so it all works out
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by donnie900 July 18, 2007 8:20 PM PDT
You know how many more Jerry Falwells there are out there? Wanting to "spread the word"? Huh? Wanting to steal everybody's money doing it? Huh?

I want failure in Iraq. A pre-empted war? No justification? That administration should fail, miserably. And go home, or to the Hague. And never come back..
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by actornaught July 18, 2007 8:20 PM PDT
No, we could have the most realistic blue sky & sunshine tonight, but there would be 3600 reasons for not having done it at all.
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by donnie900 July 18, 2007 8:23 PM PDT
Well, you're thinking about the little things.
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by donnie900 July 18, 2007 8:27 PM PDT
You're not supposed to pre-empt wars. You're not supposed to go on these secret elephant hunts. Thats not what the american military was originally established to accomplish. It is a violation of the rules of engagement. And the rules of the Constitution, that we're still in this war. No justification. No mandate..
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by actornaught July 18, 2007 8:28 PM PDT
Well call me a bigot, but those people have never shown that they're worth this awful sacrifice.

The only mission accomplished was in creating an al qaeda disneyland.
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by gretagreen July 18, 2007 8:28 PM PDT
I want a smart comprehensive plan for getting the troops (or at least most of them) out of Iraq.

I want a multi-national/multi-ethnic group of peacekeepers sent in as our military is leaving.

I want our government to try to understand what the Iraqis are fighting about so that we might identify some kind of resolution for them (such as splitting the country).

The Bush administration appears to have made stupid mistakes in the so-called war on terror, but it seems more likely that it was "chaos by design." The most obvious purpose of such chaos would be to move large amounts of money from one entity (U.S. government perhaps) to another (private companies and individuals such as those who receive no-bid defense contracts).
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by hypnotoad72 July 18, 2007 8:30 PM PDT
I used to be against the war, but I've got to admit - if we did pull out, I highly doubt anything over there is going to get better. We've got to stay.

We've got to stay and straighten things out. The Iraqi would otherwise just kill themselves like animals and take out everyone else around them in the process.

Anyone who thinks that, the attosecond we leave, they start throwing parties and rebuilding things -- they're wrong.
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by donnie900 July 18, 2007 8:32 PM PDT
If anybody's gonna fix it, its not gonna be us.
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by telecom_1 July 18, 2007 8:33 PM PDT
America demanded justice for the slaughter of three thousand civilians congress voted yes to go to Iraq.
The reality is we are there and we will leave but we will do it in a way that doesn't hand our enemies a easy victory. By the way the zit on your butt was not caused by President George Bush.
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by pepperp1 July 18, 2007 8:34 PM PDT
"Do you believe it is important to win this war against al-Qaeda we are fighting in Iraq?"

Posted by One_American at 08:03 PM : Jul 18, 2007

The reason is because that is not a legitimate poll question. That is called "push polling" and indicates the questioner is promoting an agenda.
Posted by tuckerndfw at 08:08 PM : Jul 18, 2007

How about it is propaganda and not worthy of a legitimate question, most of our troops are killed by Iraqis. Al Qaeda killing our troops is more Bush lies, propaganda false argument bull schit, Al Qaeda is about the suicide bombers they generally kill Iraqis. Can you not read or count or do you just choose to be uniformed manipulated by BULL. And don't foget it was the Neo Con press including the NYT that carried your WMD lies, they may not like you calling them names.


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by donnie900 July 18, 2007 8:35 PM PDT
We'll get out, and we'll get out fast, and we'll never look back, nor come back again.
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by nothappyatall July 18, 2007 8:37 PM PDT
"America demanded justice for the slaughter of three thousand civilians congress voted yes to go to Iraq.
The reality is we are there and we will leave but we will do it in a way that doesn't hand our enemies a easy victory."
Posted by telecom_1

MAYBE you MISSED all the reports, including those of advisors to BUSH that said Iraq had NOTHING to do with the attacks on 9/11, let me repeat that again; IRAQ HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ATTACKS ON 9/11, therefore the revenge war on Iraq was unjustified and criminal, it also did not even touch those who WERE responsible.
If you want to hold people responsible, then go after SAUDI ARABIA who has been proven had connections to 9/11.

All Bush did was make more attacks MORE likely now as REVENGE.
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by actornaught July 18, 2007 8:38 PM PDT
But who's word are you taking that things would go completely to he11? Partly to he11 is just fine with me. This is w & d!ck's sandbox, nobody elses.

And why not let it go to he11? Then it would be easy to just rocket the first numbnuts that says he's in command!
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