King George Bush and the Tortured Truth

Captain Eric H. May

Polls show that six out of ten U.S. citizens disapprove of George W. Bush, who has had one of the worst weeks in his six-year reign. Monday the National Intelligence Report -- the consensus of his intelligence agencies' opinions -- made it clear that his war in Iraq is a failure, which has created rather than conquered enemies in the Middle East. Tuesday the Associated Press released a poll pointing out that most Iraqi citizens are in favor of insurgent attacks against U.S. occupation forces, while three out of four want those forces out of their country ASAP. Thursday Bob Woodard of the Washington Post, a former fan of the White House war, published his third book on the "war president," State of Denial, and made up for all his previous sycophancy with a hard-hitting description of an administration in turmoil, without clear goals, barely propped up by a well-known Rovean notion: When in doubt, lie!

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