Despite the daily carnage on the streets of Baghdad and other Iraqi towns and cities, despite worldwide and nationwide public exhaustion with the war which has degenerated into a civil war— between two warring Islamic factions— despite the defeat of his Republican Party in the midterm elections last Novembxer as a result of public disenchantment with the war, United States President George W. Bush continues to enjoy the support of some 35 percent of the American adult population of 209 million. That translates into 73 million adult Americans who are unwavering Bush supporters. Not by coincidence, that number is only...