WTF Is It Now?!?

Who believes Bush now?
"Since the horror of 9/11, we've learned a great deal about the enemy. We have learned that they are evil and kill without mercy."

Duh!

President Bush’s performance through the fifth anniversary memorials and remembrances of Sept. 11, 2001 was pathetic. It offered nothing that could assure a now thoroughly disbelieving nation that he’s steering the nation on, or better, back onto, the right track. It’s going to be “stay the course” versus “cut and run” on Iraq for the core of GOP foreign policy going into November.

But, since the current Iraq situation is degenerating into sheer chaos, “staying the course” means sinking deeper and deeper into a disaster of epochal proportions. Everything embodied in that since word, “Iraq,” is not only the worst foreign policy disaster in US history, it is one of the dumbest missteps in recorded world history.

As far as “cut and run” goes, it is Bush and GOP that are “cutting and running - cutting and running from reality," as Sen. John Kerry quipped last weekend.

The GOP has nothing but fear and name calling to bring its voters into line by November. Slow to awaken, the American public nonetheless is not in the same place it was then. Polls show a majority, at last, now believes there’s no connection between the “War on Terrorism” and the invasion of Iraq.

The more folks arrive at that conclusion, the more the rage against Bush is growing. The more Bush asserts it, the more the public will grow resentful.

- Nicholas F. Benton, Falls Church News Press.