IRAQ = BUSH'S ALBATROSS!

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Bush's albatross

By Roger Simon

George Bush's poll numbers are in decline because the Iraq war hangs around his neck like a two-ton albatross.

The latest AP-Ipsos poll puts approval for Bush's handling of the war at only 38 percent and his overall job approval at only 42 percent. (In addition, 50 percent of the country says he is dishonest and only 48 percent says he is honest.)

Since Bush doesn't have to run for office again, you might wonder why this matters. There are at least two reasons:

Republicans in Congress have to run for re-election next year; these figures terrify them. The numbers are getting so bad that some are already wondering whether a campaign visit by the president would be a plus or a minus in their districts. ...

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http://www.usnews.com/usnews/opinion/articles/050810/10simon.htm

[benburch]

1. Nope. OUR Albatross.

As Bush goes, so goes world perception of the USA.

[Wafture]

3. We are the world

We are the children ... is they learning?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. Did you hear the one about the emperors

new clothes???

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4. Mother Tips the Balance Against Bush

Mother Tips the Balance Against Bush
August 21, 2005

...But many Republicans in Congress will be fighting tough elections in 2006. If the situation in Iraq has not improved by then, the war could become a millstone around the party's neck and inflict some serious losses. So far, however, there are few Democrat politicians advocating a swift withdrawal from Iraq.

But that could change as the anti-war movement spreads - and it is now attracting some powerful followers. Backing Sheehan in Texas are other parents who have lost children in Iraq. They have been joined by some Iraq veterans who have now left the military. FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley has also arrived in Texas, as has Becky Lourey, another mother who has lost her son in Iraq and a state senator in Minnesota.

Many anti-war protesters believe their political clout can only grow as they start to run for office. They take as a lesson a recent local election in Ohio where an Iraq war veteran, running on an explicit anti-war platform, came within a whisker of defeating a Republican opponent in an area of the state where Republican support is strongest.

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050821210254166

[goclark]

5. kick

[Wafture]

6. (Kick 'Em Out Now)

The Bush Budget Disaster

Bush’s 2006 budget eliminates or cuts funding to New York for homeland security, education, health care, and business development. At the same time, Bush’s budget does nothing to reduce the record $412 billion deficit. In fact, the Enron-style accounting in Bush’s budget plan makes the long-term deficit worse because Bush fails to include $2 trillion in costs for his plan to privatize Social Security and leaves out billions for spending in Iraq.

http://www.nydems.org/html/republicansfailing/

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7. It's a sad sad situation

And it's getting more absurd





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