A majority of Americans (54%, up from 41% just two weeks ago) now believe the Iraq War was a mistake. 55% of them also now understand what Howard Dean was telling them months ago, that this War made the U.S. “less safe”, according to a new Gallup poll released today.
Meanwhile, along with the majority of Americans, Bush’s old friends continue to desert him in droves.
Lee Iacocca, who appeared in campaign commercials with Bush four years ago, is now endorsing John Kerry instead, due to Bush’s failed record on jobs for Americans during his term.
And over in the jolly old U.K., Bush’s only real partner in the mirage-like “Coalition of the Willing” also has a thing or two to say about the Bush Administration’s “unacceptable” plans for military trials for detainees in Gitmo.
“Fair trial is one of those, which is the reason we in the UK have been unable to accept that the US military tribunals…offer sufficient guarantees of a fair trial in accordance with international standards.”
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Five Britons were released from Guantanamo in March and several alleged mistreatment by US interrogators.
The Pentagon has yet to hold any trials under the proposed rules.
It says trials would be fair, but that the entire process would be controlled by the Defence Department and there is no right to appeal to a civilian court.
Sounds “fair” to me.
How’s old Dubya standing up under the mounting pressure? He’s currently in Ireland, heading towards a NATO summit as he continues to move closer and closer to the same positions on Iraq that Kerry has been advocating for months.
According to this AFP article, he “snapped” today at one of the Irish reporters: “I wouldn’t have made the decisions I did if I didn’t think the world would be better.”
And, though it’ll likely surprise the Fake Conservative shadow boxing dead enders out there who believe that folks like me “hate George W. Bush” and think he’s the devil — an argument that they likely project on us based on their own true emotional disdain for the previous Whitehouse occupant, and it’s the only argument left for them to try — I actually believe Bush when he makes such statements as the above.
I believe he did think this action in Iraq would “make the world better”. The real problem, however, is that he was so horribly wrong. He listened to nobody who was trying to tell him otherwise thousands of dead bodies ago, and to this day he can’t seem to admit the undisputable fact: He and the NeoCons that brought us here, (along with the support of plenty of Democrats and the supposedly “liberal” Media who rolled over for him during a completely Republican controlled Congress) simply and plainly…blew it.
And now it’s finally time that the piper is being paid. End of story.
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