100+ Dead in Iraq Violence (CBS: Bush approval 28% )

[Buford Pusser]

http://www.charlottesvillenewsplex.tv/news/headlines/5293881.html

January 22, 2007

It was the deadliest attack by insurgents in months, a pair of coordinated explosions in Baghdad, caught on tape.

A parked car loaded with hundreds of pounds of explosives blew up near a crowded market. Moments later, a suicide car bomber drove straight into the crowd. The blasts together with a third attack north of the capital killed more than 100-people and injured over 150.

It was also a bloody weekend for U.S. troops. 27 forces were killed in action, including 12 troops who died when their black hawk helicopter was brought down by a shoulder fired missile.

* * *.

President Bush knows the stakes are high as he puts the finishing touches on Tuesday night's State of the Union address. The latest CBS news poll puts Bush's approval rating at just 28-percent.

[aquart]

1. I misread. I thought it said 100 percent dead in Iraq violence.

[Connie_Corleone]

2. The Blivet is finally under 30% for job approval?

Are we in impeachment territory yet??

[aquart]

5. George can go lower. I have faith in him.

It's a snowball in hell rolling downhill gathering lots of moss.

[Skip Intro]

6. That's the first under 30% rating I've seen for him.

That's kind of a major threshold. Under 30%? Makes me wonder if the repub party is only turning on bushco, or the party as a whole? Might some moderates peel off and find their way to the reality-based side of the fence?

Gotta go check those numbers...

[Czolgosz]

8. The Harris Poll charted him in the high 20s about 6 months ago; this would be a new low as far as I

have seen (and only the second poll number in the 20s).

[Fovea]

10. remember a few weeks ago when posts

all in caps screamed, WHERE WILL WE GET 67 VOTES?????

Seems a little funny now a days.

I think that (particlarly after Aberto's freak show regarding habeas corpus the other day in the senate) when the investigation ends in the house, the republican senators will be lining up to write their names on the bills in *real big letters*.

[Guaranteed]

26. 29% when Colbert did the WH Correspondents' Dinner. nt

[pat_k]

30. Even the "fear of smear" strategerists ought to see the insanity of "off the table". . .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2698815&mesg_id=2700198">American's admire strength. Impotent "symbolic" gestures show weakness. . .

[lancdem]

3. Is that overall

or for his handling of Iraq?

[Connie_Corleone]

7. It's overall approval rating

Here is the article:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/22/opinion/polls/main2384943.shtml

Poll: Bush Faces Skeptical Nation

(CBS) President Bush will deliver his State of the Union address Tuesday night to a nation that's strongly opposed to his plan for increasing troops in Iraq and deeply unhappy with his performance as president, according to a CBS News poll.

Mr. Bush’s overall approval rating has fallen to just 28 percent, a new low, while more than twice as many (64 percent) disapprove of the way he's handling his job

[Arugula Latte]

11. Holy Crap!!

That's the lowest he's EVER polled ... The record before was 29 %.

Gawd, this country HATES his frickin' GUTS!

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. Any way you look at it, there are some really ruthless bastards in Iraq

Bush let the cat of the bag for sure.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

9. I can't understand

why this stuff hasn't become front page news.............oh wiat, the whore media is either on the take or lazy. How could this NOT be the top story given Mr. 'Everything is ok in Iraq'?
:mad: :grr: :cry:

[Miss Chybil]

13. It's in the news. That's how you know about it. nt

[superconnected]

12. I really don't get it. How the FUCK does he sleep at night.

[Doctor_J]

18. Just fine, thank you.

No conscience, plus enough drugs to give Seattle Slew a hangover.

[ozymandius]

14. This is an example of faith-based leadership.

But I do have faith that Bush's ratings will climb into 80% disapproval.

[proust78]

15. We need to start airlifting Iraqis out

Any that want to leave should get relocated at our expense to countries with lower rates of TOTAL ANARCHY. The only person who should have to live there is Bush the slumlord.

[northofdenali]

17. Bush the Slumlord -

a new epithet that I very much appreciate.

[proust78]

20. thanks... Bush should live in the misery he's created

We could give him a shack to start out with. I'm sure he could survive on the "sweets and flowers" the locals would shower him with.

[liberal renegade]

23. Even better, there's a vacant hidey hole

somewhere in the iraqi country side that needs a new occupant. His numbers get any lower and he'll crawl into a hole.

[Doctor_J]

16. he's headed for Nixon territory

tomorrow night should drop him a cople more points. Life is good

[llmart]

19. I'm sure it's actually more like 23%.....

[ShortnFiery]

25. Face it, back in the 70s, Bush would be toast.

However, our Military Industrial Complex OWNS the M$M and is oh so much more WEALTHY with the *filth* of production of some of the best KILLING MACHINES and ARMAMENTS ever known to humankind. These evil ghouls are doing everything they can to keep this war going and far too many of our Congressional Representatives are invested up to their eyeballs in war profiteering corporations.

We must all be in the streets of D.C. come this weekend. And still, the Corporate owned M$M will barely recognize our existence. We must impeach the entire Executive branch before we will be able to extract our troops from the Middle East Hell Holes. (that includes Afghanistan - It's too late!)

[llmart]

29. Agreed.

The people have to stop this madness because politicians never will. Their children don't fight and die in wars and they look on other people's children as expendable in their quest for more wealth. If you want to read a scary book read Helen Caldicott's book on nuclear war.

[pat_k]

31. Imagine if every "Stop the War" demand became an "Impeach Bush & Cheney NOW"

It is the bushcheney war on the Constitution that Members of Congress are sworn to defend.

We cannot hope to do ANYTHING constructive in Iraq as long as the massive power of the American presidency remains in the hands of lawless men.

It is hard to imagine how the irrational beliefs and rationalizations that are keeping them from impeaching would be able to stand if Americans demanding change in Iraq shifted their efforts to fighting for the ONLY way that we can effect real change: Impeaching Bush and Cheney.

"Taking to the streets" demonstrate numbers, but more of us will need to take to the halls of Congress, as citizen lobbyists, where we can elicit and directly challenge the bizarro world assumptions and rationalizatons that are never challenged within the beltways insular world.

As long as they remain trapped behind their wall of rationalizations for inaction, our demands will slide off like water off a duck's back.

[liberal renegade]

21. How is it

he even has the balls to go out in public? Somebody tell me...

[bigworld]

22. He _doesn't_ go out in public

... when was the last time you've seen him in front of a non-military audience?

[liberal renegade]

24. true.....

[yellowcanine]

27. 28% ??? Al Capone could beat that.

[Jack Rabbit]

28. Kick him while he's down

DOWN WITH THE EMPEROR AND HIS CROOKED COURT!!



Portrait of King George from VoltaireNet.org

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