According to Newsweek, Bush’s approval rating on Iraq is down to 34 percent — his disapproval rating is 61 percent. It’s the lowest it’s ever been. In addition: “50 percent of those polled say the United States is losing ground in its efforts to establish security and democracy in Iraq; just 40 percent say the U.S. is making progress there.”
I’m not one to place too much emphasis on polls, but these numbers are staggering. Bush, after all, ran for re-election as a war president, but neither the war on terror (where’s Osama?) nor Iraq (is it getting worse?) seems to be going all that well. Which leads to an interesting question: What if we could do Bush v. Kerry all over again, knowing what we now know?