Bush’s widening credibility gap (Wichita Eagle editors blog)

[struggle4progress]

President Bush’s Sept. 11 commemorative speech Monday night sounded pretty much the same themes, in the same phrases, as speeches he gave two or three years ago.

... In a recent CNN poll, 53 percent of Americans didn’t think that the war in Iraq is part of the war on terrorism. That’s probably because more Americans today understand that Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with Sept. 11 (as the president now admits), and that the bloody sectarian civil war in Iraq is more complicated than Bush’s rhetoric that “the safety of America depends on the outcome of the battle in the streets of Baghdad.”

Further, when Bush says “America did not ask for this war,” Americans know that doesn’t apply to Iraq ...

Posted by Randy Scholfield
<Editorial Writer/Columnist>
http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2006/09/bushs_widening_.html

[rusty charly]

1. wow. quite a discussion on that board.

[WhiteTara]

2. The American Heartland is the pulse

of the revolution. When it doesn't play in Wichita, you know the game is over.

[samsingh]

3. the gap is infinite