Master of events or at their mercy?

http://msnbc.com/news/962731.asp?0bl=-0

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 — An extraordinary reversal of political fortune compelled President Bush to go on national television Sunday night. He had no triumphal news to announce. Instead he had to brace the American people for an unexpectedly difficult struggle in the months ahead in Iraq, assuring them that the goal — a stable country that is not a haven for terrorists or a site for making nuclear, biological or chemical weapons — was worth the lives of the soldiers and Marines that are being lost.

BUSH’S SPEECH came at a time when Democrats have grown more hopeful that the open-ended risks of the Iraq commitment will alienate voters from Bush and sweep a Democrat into the White House next year.

It was inevitable that the sky-high poll numbers that Bush enjoyed immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks would settle to more typical levels, but the decline in Bush’s approval rating has been more marked as the U.S. casualties have mounted in the past few months.

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There was one question Bush did not answer or even try to: When will the occupation of Iraq end?
The president offered no talk of “a light at the end of the tunnel,” only a pledge that “for America, there will be no going back to the era before September the 11th, 2001 — to false comfort in a dangerous world. We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength — they are invited by the perception of weakness.”

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After reading this on MSBNC News, I truly believe that the Shrub administration should start packing their clothes and buying their tickets home.

an immediate eviction and run out of town on a rail.

but that's just my view.

there's no way the American public will put up with a third Bush after this debacle.