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Bush Popularity Drops Comment by Larry Ross, April 21, 2006
This article shows how much the popularity of Bush and his Administration has dropped and how it has alienated the American population. Numerous factors cause this - Bush's very poor domestic performance, his spying on Americans, his arrogance, poor judgement, his dictatorial attitude, and more than anything else, his illegal war on Iraq. Obviously most Americans would disapprove of his war plans for Iran, especially if he nuclear bombs Iran. He and his advisors know this very, very well. Yet they are still preparing to launch another illegal war on a much bigger and better prepared target - Iran, when their military resources are overstretched. Another crazy neocon mystery? I don't think so. The author does not take into account how the American attitude could reverse in the event of another 9/11 terrorist attack on the U.S. which has been predicted several times. Insiders say Bush is likely to blame it on Iran. Bush could use a new terrorist attack in the same way he used the 9/11 attack in 2001 to justify his attack on Iraq even though he knew Iraq had nothing to with calqued, terrorism or the 9/11 attack. He lied and it worked - his popularity soared and he got popular support for his illegal war and huge military expenditures. Conscription could easily be introduced and Americans would forget the past and high gas prices. Neocon strategy proved right. They said they needed a new "Pearl Harbour" to get the Americans to go to war. And oh so miraculously, they got their Pearl Harbour at just the right time. Who was really responsible for 9/11 and who will really be responsible for another terrorist attack that Bush can blame on Iran to justify his war and the use of nuclear weapons.? Lies have worked well for Bush. "The bigger the lie the more people will believe it" said Adolph Hitler. Was he right? So a very big lie may be used to justify another war, nuclear weapon use and gain another popular vote for Republican candidates. When a leader and his administration has deliberately committed multiple war crimes and domestic political crimes of all kinds based on lies that have been accepted as true, and the crimes have been successful, with no punishments, they are likely to continue committing such crimes and repeat this proven and successful formula. Nothing short of a convincing new ' terrorist attack', that the American people can believe in again, and that it came from Iran, will suddenly reverse Bush's declining popularity and save his Presidency. It would have to be a very convincing attack so that enough Americans would patriotically support a new much larger war, elect Republicans in the crucially important coming election and accept conscription to fight the new war. With media support, and only with media support, he just might get away with it again unless influential, powerful and knowledgeable Americans wake up and summon the courage and commitment to take the necessary steps to stop Bush now. There is unlikely to be any second chances. And who was responsible for 9/11 and the new terrorist attack to come? Who do you think? There's a few hints on our web site under 9/11. Cheque it out at: www.nuclearfree.org.nz/archives
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Tomogram: History Ambushes the Bush Administration [ Note for readers: This is the stand-alone conclusion to a two-part dispatch, the first of which,
In the Rubble By Tom Engelhardt, April 16, 2006 You can count on one thing. All over Washington, Republicans are at least as capable as I am of watching and interpreting the polling version of the smash-up of the Bush administration. With each new poll, the numbers creep lower yet. Presidential approval in the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll dropped another 3% in the last month and now sits at 38%, while disapproval of the President continues to strengthen -- 47% of Americans now "strongly disapprove" of the President's handling of the presidency, only 20% "strongly approve." (62%, by the way, disapprove of the President's handling of the war in Iraq.) Behind these figures lurk worse ones. When asked, for instance, whether they would vote for a generic Democrat or Republican in the upcoming midterm elections, those polled chose the generic Democrat by a startling 55-40%, the largest such gap yet. In addition, Democrats have now become the default party Americans "trust" almost across the board on issues, even in this poll edging the Republicans out by a single percentage point on the handling of terrorism. Continue........
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