From CBS, the lattest polls show a big hit on Bush´s aproval ratings, especially after Clarke´s book and statements.
Read all about it here:

Go, baby, go!!!
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Pity...

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Well, Bush´s ratings are to suffer another blow. It seems Condoleeza Rice is to adress the 9/11 comission on thursday. I can´t miss it!
(writes a sticky note and sticks it in own forehead)
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I wanna see that bitch dance!!!

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"Quincitilius Varus, give me back my legions!"
Emperor Augustus of Rome.

Every time we have another body bag come back to the US, it costs Bush votes and support. A pity that it is the blood of our brothers in arms that has to bring on the change.

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It should cost him more, but the Bush team does everything they can to keep the war from becoming "real" to the masses. Don't release actual numbers of injured and don't allow the press to video/take pictures of the injured and dead and most people will be able to ignore the war.

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At least they learned a lesson from Vietnam....

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I am really glad that Bush's approval is getting lower and lower, but I still can't get excited about John Kerry. I just don't think that he will be the big improvement we all hope he will be.

Of course, if he can just avoid creating any more wars, maybe that will be improvement enough.

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No matter who or what sits in the White House after Bush, it will be already an improvement. They could take a total retard from the local loony bin, and sit him in the White House, and still it would be a big improvement over Dubya. There aren´t many people left in the world who can say they would do a poorer job than him.
Although Kerry isn´t any Sir Arthur from Camelot, i think it´s fair to say he won´t totally fuck it up. I guess he will have a hard time and his hands full fixing all the damage done by the previous admin, to think of brand new ways to trash what´s left of the american credibility, world wide.
Assuming he wins, that is...
Although unlikelly, there is still a small chance Bush will get to sit his dumb ass on the White House seat for 4 more (*sigh*) years...
Brrrrrrrrrr, just got a cold shiver up my spine!
:dammit:

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"Quincitilius Varus, give me back my legions!"
Emperor Augustus of Rome.

I'm really going to have to quit bashing Bush now, I guess, since he's obviously doing everything that he possibly can to see to it that guys like me can at least find good paying jobs now - with wages in the $1000-$2000 per day range, no less - providing private security services in far-away places all over the world. What a guy! Go Bush Go! Job security has never been better - for modern-day ex-US Special Forces type mercenaries anyway - than it has been under the current Bush administration.

It's just a damned shame that the US government has already spent anywhere from a quarter of a million dollars up to several million dollars to train each special operations soldier, only to lose them to these private companies (like Blackwater) who will then charge the US government another $1000-$2000 a day to "rehire" them again, temporarily.

It's tax free income for us, too. Sweet! Plus it's all "outside the law"; there are no military "court martial" type provisions nor any other legal requirements for any of the civilian contracting companies or individial contractors that "accidentally" kill a few innocent civilians, or anything like that. They just quietly send them back home, or to another posting somewhere else if that happens, and nobody says anything more about it thereafter. Simple. What more could a mercenary ask for?