POLITICS, IRAQ ETC ETC

I hate to bring politics into a blog that i have tried to kewep free of anything ijnteresting at all, but does anyone else think that Bush has made a complete cock-up of his handling of this whole "Iraq abuse" scandal?

Why didn't he immediately apologise?

Why didn't he apologise live on Arab TV when he had the chance?

Why is he defending Rumsfeld and refusing to fire him?

I can only assume he is being advised by idiots.

Meantime his approval ratings are plummeting and if things continue the way they are going then Kerry only has to keep his nose clean and he's as good as in the White House come november. Not that that will make much difference to American politics in the eyes of the world - he's just not-quite-as-right-wing-as-Bush, but by no means a leftie (as least not the european version of a leftie - I know Attila and Genghis both view him as only 1 step short of communist)