Source: CounterPunch
Author: Paul Craig Roberts

08/29/05

With every poll showing smaller and smaller minorities approving of Bush and his war in Iraq, with top US generals sending signals that they want to reduce US troops in Iraq, and with the world at large viewing Bush as a fanatic who cannot acknowledge his blunders and mistakes, Bush announced in his weekly radio address that 'our efforts in Iraq and the broader Middle East will require more time, more sacrifice and continued resolve.' Does Bush think he is a dictator? The polls show that it is the American people's resolve that Bush bring his Iraq venture to an end, an orderly end if possible, but to an end. Every explanation Bush has given for his invasion of Iraq has proved to be false. Yet, Bush still speaks of 'our noble cause,' while taking great care to avoid Cindy Sheehan and her question, 'What is the noble cause?' Perhaps Bush supplied the answer in his reference in his weekly radio address to 'our efforts in . . . the broader Middle East'...

Link: http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts08292005.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp