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July 05, 2005
Zogby: 'President George Bush Has A Problem'
James J. Zogby, founder and president of the Arab American Institute (AAI), opined in a July 5, 2005 article in The Jordan Times and MENA FM.com that, President George Bush has a problem. This war was supposed to have gone so differently. By now it is clear that the infantile fantasy of its architects ("shock and awe", "a cake walk", "flowers at our feet", "six months and out" and "the spreading of democracy throughout the Middle East") did not pan out. Instead, US troops have been transformed into an occupation army fighting an enemy about whom we know too little, with stories and pictures of hideous terrorist attacks and growing tallies of war dead filling the daily press. As a result, strains are beginning to show. US public support for the war is waning, with Bush's job performance in the war effort now down to 40 per cent and a strong majority of 60 per cent saying that the war in Iraq wasn't worth fighting in the first place. More worrisome to the White House are signs that not only Democrats, but some prominent Republicans, are beginning to raise tough questions about the war and how it is being conducted.
Mr. Zogby said, "Add to this the embarrassment created last week by leading administration figures publicly contradicting each other and the military over assessments of how the war is going."
See "Bush fighting the Iraq war at home" for more of Mr. Zogby's analysis.
Posted by Munir Umrani at July 5, 2005 02:19 PM
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