The fact that Bush still has a 30% approval rating suggests that either a third of this country is illiterate or as gullible as an eight year old; or perhaps a combination of both. This is considering his response to 9/11 (the War in Iraq) and the way he went about doing it; not to mention the whole Katrina incident.

It is obvious to everyone that Al-Qaeda was the terrorist group responsible for the 9/11 attacks; that much is a fact. However, President Bush gave Americans the false impression that Iraq and Al-Qaeda were related. He even went as far as saying that an Al-Qaeda network was being trained and armed by Saddam in Iraq. This belief went against the information that the White House was given from the CIA and European terrorist investigation teams, who found no link between the two. After all, Saddam’s Iraq represented the form of secular government that would have been a target to Al-Qaeda, and Saddam would have seen Al-Qaeda as a threat to his ruling. Bottom line is that Iraq and Al-Qaeda HATED each other.

However, the misconceptions don’t stop there. As if linking a terrorist group with Iraq didn’t gain enough support for a war that President Bush has been interested in since he took office, he also told American people that he believed that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. Keep in mind that this report (which once again turned out to be false) along with the Al-Qaeda/Iraq link was announced at a time when the country was feeling “overly patriotic” after 9/11. Majority of Americans wanted to go to war with somebody, they just didn’t know who, and once the Commander in Chief pointed the finger at Iraq, most angered Americans bought into the lies and supported the decision at the time. However, only 16% of Americans still believe that story.

Once President Bush got the approval of Congress to go to war, he assured all Americans that it would take place under the most carefully thought out plans. However, when General Eric Shinseki, a military expert, proposed that it would take several hundred thousand troops to pull this off, the Bush administration shot him down by simply dismissing his idea and keeping the predetermined smaller force. That doesn’t sound like a carefully thought out plan to me. When the Bush administration thinks that they know more about military strategies than a military expert and the rest of the Pentagon that agreed with him, there is going to be problems.

So since Al-Qaeda is not present in Iraq and no weapons of mass destruction were there (therefore confirming that they are not a threat to our national security), what the hell are we doing there? Some would say that we are in Iraq because of the oil interests. Most Iraqis, along with majority of the Middle East, believe that we are there to kill people of the Islam faith. And of course, there is that “feel good story” that a lot of Americans are buying into that we are freeing the oppressed Iraq people by trying to turn them into a democracy. However, all we are doing is trying to unify two religious sects of Islam (Sunni and Shiite) that have been hating each other for longer than our country has been established. On top of that, they hate the United States and our presence in their country more. Bottom line: we are fucked.

It makes sense...

Its all relative, look at congress!

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"Eagle", just take a look at about 1/3 of the AWE postings: then you can see how the fellon bush maintains 1/3 of the population's support. .....pjwky

If these freaks are indicative of all busbots, they are all illiterate, dishonest and pussies.

Wmd's ,to linked with al-queda ,to the world is safer without saddam ,to bringing democracy ,to iraq to better to fight the terrorists over there than here to ,if we leave it will cause mass killings in iraq and destabilize the region, to if we leave the troops will have died in vain,to

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I respect your right to have your own opinion,but I do not necessarily respect your opinion.

You don't really believe that shit, do you?

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“One of the things that I learned in the school yard was: the folks that are talking tough all the time, they’re not always that tough. If you’re really tough, you’re not always looking to try to start a fight. If you’re really tough, sometimes you just walk away. If you’re really tough, you just save it for when you really need it,” Obama said.

The question should be How does Bush still have a job with only a 30% approval "rating" and when all the world's people know that he is the biggest POS on earth besides Dick Cheney?

Not a word.
I believe saddam was a despot,but not an eminent threat to the U.S.

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I respect your right to have your own opinion,but I do not necessarily respect your opinion.

Many people benefit from this administration's policy:
If I made humvees, bullits or bombs; if I was an oil executive, if I provided security services in Iraq....
If I were anti-American I would love having Mr. Bush as "your" president.
Lots of Texans like him cause he Texan.
If I were big corporation living off my dividends taxed at 15% thanks to our president, I would approve too.

I am a licensed psychotherapist on an inpatient psyche ward at a major army medical center....his policy means job security for years to come.

Well now Eagle...besides the Iraq war that you obviously oppose....what has Evil Bush personally done...to justify your extreme hatred for the man.

While you may hate the man....7 years without another succesful terrorist attack on this country....can you give credit where credit is due as easily as you liberally lay your blame.

Eagle...you live in a bowl...a huge hurricane is coming...I suggest you leave if you want to live...or blame Bush for your own stupidity.

The average IQ for all Americans went way up after Katrina

Bottom line...presidential elections come down to electing the smaller pile of ...the fact that Bush was elected twice only shows how pathetic the alternatives were.

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Give a lib a fish--he eats for a day

Teach a lib to fish--he is back the next day asking for more free fish

"no one in their right mind believes that humans are the sole cause of the warming trend."

You can hope for change--or you can get off your fat ass and change it yourself