The fundamental question in all this: when America is attacked by a global enemy, A. Do you want the President to be polite, or B. Do you want him to go and tear something up and ask questions later. Polls showed the American people wanted to be excessive in its retaliation on states suspected of sponsoring terror. When it appeared that Senator John Kerry was weak and he wasn’t as handsome as Bush they gave Bush a victory in 2004.

The truth is, thank God Bush has been punished for being excessive and for blood shed thousands of miles away. The Bush administration has been operating on a different series of thinking away from the media and public opinion polls that will be made clear when documents are declassified. During George W. Bush’s watch thus far, we’ve paid a huge price, but immediately after 911 the threat was paying a huge insurmountable cost of tremendous casualties and Bush responded.

The ’swagger’ of Bush now is that in having far reaching and controversial policies American and its Allies have the upper hand on the wider war on terror. Now he has the ticket to scale back and in the process repair America’s reputation with moderate states.

http://www.gotuit.com/player/index.html?c=SM_People&t=4698&s=42659

This is what happens when no means of measuring improvement or failure are available. The word stuck comes to mind. Their minds are wandering, their hope is wanning, their lives are dissappearing, and their deffinition of success has become, “Destroying a building to kill one sniper, you win for the day.”

These are not solutions, more troops is not a solution, A definitive goal is the solution, and the president, and planners and other guys at the top have failed to define that: expect more torture, more failure until sucess is clearly defined!

The public view sunk into a deep pessimism over Iraq earlier and hasn’t moved since.

Of course it goes without saying that if next months poll has the number go back to 34 percent we wont be seeing the headline “President’s Poll Numbers Improve”