DeclinetoState
03-29-2006, 05:46 PM
How dumb do they think we are?
By they, I mean President Bush and his White House team. By we, I mean the American people.
With his poll numbers literally in the toilet, the president and his team have launched a public relations campaign to build support for the war in Iraq. Countering criticism that the president lives inside a bubble, he's even taking questions, both from the press and from real people.
So the president this week went to the City Club in Cleveland and to Wheeling, W.V., and even held a televised press conference, albeit in the morning, not in prime-time.
But what Bush has not done is admit that he or his team made any mistakes.
The only actual news he's made in three days of carefully staged public appearances is to make clear that the war will go on even longer than many of us thought -- that it will be the next president, and not Bush, who ends it.
Is that supposed to build support?
Asked by his longtime press nemesis, Helen Thomas, for the real reason for the war, given that all the stated reasons proved false, the president could do no better than to invoke 9-11. But by now, most Americans have figured out that Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden weren't working together, and that al-Qaida didn't come to Iraq until we did.
More of Susan at http://www.creators.com/opinion_show.cfm?columnsName=ses
By they, I mean President Bush and his White House team. By we, I mean the American people.
With his poll numbers literally in the toilet, the president and his team have launched a public relations campaign to build support for the war in Iraq. Countering criticism that the president lives inside a bubble, he's even taking questions, both from the press and from real people.
So the president this week went to the City Club in Cleveland and to Wheeling, W.V., and even held a televised press conference, albeit in the morning, not in prime-time.
But what Bush has not done is admit that he or his team made any mistakes.
The only actual news he's made in three days of carefully staged public appearances is to make clear that the war will go on even longer than many of us thought -- that it will be the next president, and not Bush, who ends it.
Is that supposed to build support?
Asked by his longtime press nemesis, Helen Thomas, for the real reason for the war, given that all the stated reasons proved false, the president could do no better than to invoke 9-11. But by now, most Americans have figured out that Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden weren't working together, and that al-Qaida didn't come to Iraq until we did.
More of Susan at http://www.creators.com/opinion_show.cfm?columnsName=ses