Now, we know, of course, that George's people read the opinion polls and check their focus groups and that, amid his increasingly poor polling figures (including a recent Zogby poll, hardly covered in the mainstream press, that showed 42% of Americans willing to consider his possible impeachment for lying about going to war with Iraq), he hangs onto one thing: the war on terror. It's his. Americans still believe, though in smaller numbers than before, that he's handling it well. Before the attacks of September 11, 2001, before he proclaimed his war on terror -- though that period now seems almost beyond memory -- his presidency looked dead in the water. After a brief, embarrassing moment of fear and flight on Air Force One that long ago day, he clambered aboard the September 11th jet and flew it for all he was worth. That day made the man and his advisors undoubtedly believe that, in the end, it is likely to make or break his presidency...

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from Mother Jones, by Tom Engelhardt


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp