August 30, 2005

• Fun political ramblings again: (Taken from Crooks and Liars)

  
  

  
  

  The evolving rationale for the Iraq adventure

  
  

  9/11
  

  WMD
  

  Flypaper
  

  Liberate oppressed Iraqis
  

  Democracy in the Middle East
  

  So the deaths will not have been in vain

  
  
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  And in other news, we have been elevated to orange...

  
  

  

  
  

  Bush's approval ratings: 36 percent according to the American Research Group.  (Nixon had 34% at the height of Watergate)




[UPDATE:] A somewhat humorous take on Bush's approval (or lack thereof):







Thirty-four percent of Americans believe in UFOs. Twenty-four percent believe in witches. And in the new AP-Ipsos Poll out today, 20 percent of Americans say they "approve strongly" of the way the Bush administration is handling the war in Iraq.




Another 16 percent say they "approve somewhat," taking the overall approval rating to 36 percent. Fifty-eight percent say they disapprove either "strongly" or "somewhat." And 53 percent of the public now says that the United States made a mistake in starting the war in Iraq. As the AP notes, that's about the same level of opposition measured for the Vietnam War in August 1968 -- which is to say, about 20,000 American deaths before that war ended.