[Mb-civic] No Clarity About Iraq - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

No Clarity About Iraq

By William Raspberry

Monday, July 4, 2005; Page A17

The poll numbers are alarming -- 77 percent approval in a Post survey a 
scant two years ago and 48 percent approval at the beginning of last 
week. So it isn't surprising that the president's speech last Tuesday at 
Fort Bragg was designed to reverse the disastrous trend.

What was surprising to me is how badly George Bush misdiagnosed the 
reasons for the plummeting numbers. He seemed to think the numbers are 
down because Americans have forgotten Sept. 11 -- five separate mentions 
-- or because we've lost our will to take a stand or because we have 
become complacent about terrorism.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/03/AR2005070301025.html?nav=hcmodule
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