 ccrp poll 500 million in aid for syria   new poll overview the president on thursday proposed a major program to train and arm moderate syrian rebels in a significant expansion of the us role in a civil war that officials fear is bleeding into iraq and across the region the obama administration requested 500 million to aid the syrian opposition who now pose threats to us allies in the region the expanded us involvement will be on president barack obama s terms and emphasize the use of partner forces and not the direct use of american combat forces officials stressed there are hurdles to overcome before the expanded syrian rebel program goes into effect including obtaining congressional approval figuring out how to effectively vet large numbers of rebel fighters so the us doesn t end up training extremists and persuading countries in the region to host the effort officials said the program may not actually begin until next year they said the first batch of fighters could complete training roughly six to eight months after the proposed program is authorized and funded by congress new poll question should the president and congress approve 500 million in aid to the syrian opposition for training the rebels yes no undecided to vote in this poll click on this link should the president and congress approve 500 million in aid to the syrian opposition for training the rebels   to enter your comments click on add new comment after you vote previous poll question should dave agema throw his hat into the ring for lieutenant governor to be governor snyder s running mate yes 18 no 80 undecided 2 six comments were made on this poll comment 1 lt governor nominations and selection if the republican party wants to survive in michigan and in the country it needs to wake up and realize that the people are entitled to a vote and a voice the state party wants a convention that is scripted according to what the leadership and the monied interests in the party want if that is what they want they need to change the rules and stop the charade they currently use at the conventions why do we go to the trouble of having precinct delegates if they don t want them to have a vote or a choice if they don t want any competition at the conventions then change the process and hand pick the candidates do not pretend there is a democratic process in place if you don t truly want one changing the rules to reach a predetermined agenda is disingenuous and smacks of cronyism but it s politics what else would you expect from my perspective it s obviously time for a third party that gives a voice to the people who would like to vote for republicans without having to hold their nose in every election comment 2 you can agree to disagree but have respect dave a is an honorable man he is a us military warrior and a highly skilled fighter pilot he is to be respected in lieu of the escalating cancer of political correctness here in the state of michigan most of our elected so called public servents do not even read the bills they enact into law and that is crazy agema is a man of principle if the general public truly understood what s going on behind the scenes with the political establishment which is blackballing him folks might think differently we also have way to many so called state legislators that are so arrogant and so ignorant yet flood the electronic airways with worthless pr to snow job the electorate into believing they are working so hard we need to watch and study our legislators who are governing our lives yet they themselves have never even changed a diaper study your elected officials michigan elections bureau campaign filing statements and look at who is funding them we the people yeah right i experienced as a young man what its like personally to be in a country when its over run by an invading communist regime it took just 4 days to over throw a sovereign nation much death carnage and mayhem dave is a bull in a china shop but he knows that there is an entrenched agenda to weaken our state and nation on a massive scale as i mentioned before we worked with 500 county sheriffs addressing agenda 21 please go study it then come back and criticize mr agema philip and nancy bareham comment 3 agema thank you no i have stood behind dave on every controversy and supported him on this one i do not wes nakagiri is a principled true conservative unlike calley wes will work with the governor but he will not haul water for him like called did on medicaid expansion the detroit bailout and the recent attempts to raise gas taxes wes will inject a conservative voice in this administration he has campaigned relentlessly against the party establishment and deserves the opportunity to challenge calley at the august convention agema s entry will do nothing except fracture the votes of michigan s conservative republicans and guarantee calley a place on the ballot in november hopefully this is not dave s real intent comment 4 agema are you kidding i agree with both the comments above we need to be unified not fractured further lieutenant gov calley has done a very good job frankly whether you like it or not we need to work with the other side it is not our way or the highway that never works never has never will and agema is certainly not a unifying figure comment 5 lt gov race if the convention nominates someone other than calley we will just be handing the election to schauer we will come out of the convention looking like fools comment 6 lt governor selection at convention why in god s name would we tell the governor who is his running mate all we would be doing is sowing discord into the administration and ensuring that the lt governor was a kept out of the cabinet and consigned to simply running the senate with no policy influence or inclusion whatsoever adam stacey   all emails addresses  