"Bush: The Great Failure" from Germany

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

http://www.watchingamerica.com/sueddeutsche000012.shtml

George W. Bush has never been so weak. And his address of the "State of the Union" was his most sober ever. He is no longer the president that fantasizes about an "Axis of evil" or flights to Mars.

This is a president who can no longer use deceit to conceal disaster: In regard to foreign policy no progress is being made; and when it comes to domestic affairs, he is in fact incapable of taking action.

Most damaging is that the Americans have lost confidence in their President, the strength of his leadership and his capacity to be a crisis manager. In other words, the qualities that got him elected in the first place.

They see that the war in the Iraq was based on false pretenses, that it was badly executed and that Bush lacks a clear understanding of the facts on the ground. Americans want the Congress, which is dominated by the Democrats - they have a two-thirds majority – to determine the direction of the war.

That is a public vote of no confidence. In parliamentary systems like Britain or Germany, the time for the titian to tumble would be now. The Americans however, must endure two more years.