"and there is no one to blame but Bush himself. "
[Don't sell yourself short. You deserve credit, too!]
While we're at it, let's add RINOs like yourself to blame, the milquetoast quislings who have yet to find a conservative issue worth fighting for.
Your heros are Specter, Linday Graham, Snowe, Chafee, McCaine - they never hold Bush to the high road but always cave. So, I'd say RINOs have more than there share of blame.
Try again on the heroes, Hero.
Like I said, Rudy was the only MOFO to throw Arafat out of the Opera and out to the street.
McPain, Sphincter, and the rest would never have done that.