8/24/2003

BUSH IN MAJOR TROUBLE

Published this AM on VOA,

the majority of American voters would not like to see President Bush re-elected to another term according to a poll by Newsweek magazine.
Even worse are the reasons
Only 18 percent of those polled believe a stable, democratic government can be set up in Iraq in the long term. And only 13 percent of respondents said U.S. efforts to establish security in Iraq and rebuild the country have gone well since May 1, when combat officially ended.
The methodology in all polls is in question because these are land line telephone polls in a nation that is increasingly wireless. The last election showed how far off these polls have become. However there is not doubt that Bush is in trouble and his trouble is spelled R u m s f e l d; specifically his miserable planning for Iraq after the war. The same poll finds that nearly 70 percent of Americans feel the United States will be bogged down in Iraq for years without achieving its goals.
The economy is troubling people too and again the methodology of the poll is in question because the investor class is happy, it's the labor class, the least informed class of people, that is unhappy. When the jobs numbers turn around (this week???) that will change.

This poll was taken before news of the equipment breakdowns, shortage of tires, no tracks for the tanks etc., hit the news yesterday, WHICH WERE ONLY ON FOX, DO NOT APPEAR ANYWHERE ELSE AND NOT EVEN FOX CARRIES IT ON THEIR WEB SITE, probably another phony report from this increasingly unreliable news source. Sooner or later Rumsfeld is going to have to be held accoutable; and the ultimate accountability is George W. Bush.

Also lining up against Bush is the Republican Party which increasingly sees their entire party heading over the cliff. We have to have more troops. Bush is on vacation, mentally and physically. HE IS IN TROUBLE. WE ARE IN TROUBLE. 135 guys have died because this administration did not prepare for the occupation.

All the polls, ALL of them, are showing big big problems for Bush.

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