Most Americans Believe Bush Deceived Public on Iraq
By Bob Geiger
Created Oct 4 2006 - 8:24am
A CNN poll released Tuesday puts tangible proof to something that most of us
already knew: That the majority of the American people are clued-in enough
to understand that George W. Bush has deliberately misled the nation about
how things are going in Iraq.

A Sept. 29-Oct. 2 poll, commissioned by CNN, showed that 58 percent of
Americans said the administration has misled the public about progress in
the Iraq war.

The poll also showed that, despite ongoing chest-thumping by Team Bush and
their ridiculous assertions that they have made America safer, most
Americans -- 57 percent -- also believe the war has made the U.S. less safe
from terrorism.

The poll comes on the heels of the release of Bob Woodward's new book 'State
of Denial,' in which Woodward gives evidence that Bush ignored warnings from
military officials about the strength of the Iraqi insurgency -- and the
danger posed to U.S. troops -- and continues to lie about how well things
are going there, despite contrary news and opinion from within his own
administration.

Other poll findings include the following:

a.. Opposition to the Iraq war remains high, with 61 percent saying they
oppose the war. (Another recent poll done by CNN shows that 65 per cent of
respondents think Iraq is currently engaged in a civil war.)
a.. Sixty-six percent said they disapprove of the way Bush is handling the
situation in Iraq.
a.. Of likely voters polled, 53 percent say they will vote for a
Democratic Congressional candidate next month, while only 42 percent will
support a Republican.
To me, the most amazing results are those showing Bush's job approval rating
as high as 39 percent. I'm still investigating reports that the same
genius-level, 39 percent believe that Jessica Simpson should replace Donald
Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense.

All of this, coupled with recent polling showing that the vast majority of
Iraqis want America to leave their country and astounding results showing
that 6 in 10 Iraqis [1] favor killing American troops, and the best we can
get out of the White House and the Republicans in Congress is "stay the
course."

If that's not a mandate for change on November 7, I don't know what is.

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"A little patience and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their
spells dissolve, and the people recovering their true sight, restore their
government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are
suffering deeply in spirit,
and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public
debt. But if the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have
patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning
back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at
stake."
-Thomas Jefferson

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