I saw a poll this morning. 47% of Americans believe that Bush PURPOSELY misled the American people in order to go to war. 44% said he did not. I find these numbers astonishing. Bush is such a good man, I can't believe what the press has done to him. We have done such a good thing and the press will not let us have any of the rewards. Won't let us feel good about ourselves for even one MINUTE. I'm very, very worried.
these results reflect the quick reaction to a leading question - asked after several months of one-sided media coverage. As the goofy Bush-Saudi-oil conspiracy theories in Moore's film demonstrate, the left is struggling to pin a sinister motive for going to war with Iraq on Bush - and failing. They've basically shot their wad. Reasonable people, after giving this a bit of thought can only come to the conclusion that war with Iraq represented huge political risk for Bush, with very little political gain if things went well. No reasonable motives are available other than an honest effort to back up his pledge to go after sponsors of terror - that the left has now resorted to trotting these conspiracy theories out in front of the general public only helps underline that fact.
The media has decided that it wants President Bush out of office. It has done everything in its power to see that happen since President Bush kicked out the Helen Thomas troll from the White House Press Pool.
President Nixon suffered similarly when he had Spiro Agnew go out against “the nattering nabobs of negativism”.