The American public has finally woken up to the fact that President Bush lied the nation into invading Iraq. The poll numbers show that his presidency is in a downward spiral, with three years to go. He is beyond the point of recovery, and the one action that might restore some measure of popularity – pulling US troops out of Iraq – is not an option for this White House.
In the president’s new angle that his critics are trying to ‘rewrite history’, those critics might want to point out that his charge would be more timely after he stopped putting so much effort into obstructing any independent inquiry that could allow an accurate first draft of the history to be written. In any case, he must sense now that he’s blowing into a fierce wind. The judgement of history hangs over this guy like a sharp, heavy knife. His desperation betrays him. He knows it too.
