Bush continues to dig an electoral hole by hammering away at the issue of Iraq. Iraq may be the biggest drag on the president's party in these elections. By continuing to try to justify war in Iraq and by trying to get voters to change their minds about it, Bush only highlights an issue that most voters are unhappy about.
Why is he doing this? Y'got me... I really have no idea. Maybe it's what it seems to be on its face -- Bushco believes that if they can flip voters on Iraq, they can come out of the elections with their power intact. Maybe they're all nuts (not much of a longshot, really) and think Iraq really is going well. We know that Bush doesn't like getting bad news -- maybe he just doesn't know because no one will tell him. He's said he doesn't listen to the media, he only gets information from his own staff.
At any rate, Bush has been spreading it a little thick. In answering -- or, rather, failing to answer -- a question about whether we're winning in Iraq at wednesday's press conference, Bush said, "This war is more than just finding people and bringing them to justice; this war is an ideological conflict between a radical ideology that can't stand freedom, and moderate, reasonable people that hope to live in a peaceful society."
OK, I know who the 'radical ideology that can't stand freedom' is supposed to be, but who are the 'moderate, reasonable people [who] hope to live in a peaceful society?' It sure isn't the worldview expressed by an administration who's basically said that we have to be in a state of eternal war...
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Friday, October 27, 2006
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