Somehow I just knew this was GWB's fault!
How'd you make that great leap, and get this heinous murder related to the election?
Your head must hurt from all that thought.
How'd you make that great leap, and get this heinous murder related to the election?
What happened to this Korean man is not the President's fault, but it might be as the result of decisions he has made, specifically with his forebearance. As for the "great leap", I knew after the bodies of American contractors were hanging, burnt, from a bridge, that the President was not going to respond in a bold fashion, but was going to pursue a path that gives less fuel to his antiwar enemies.
I'm not blaming President Bush for following this course of action, but if Paul Johnson was not sufficient cause for him to open that can of whupass, a South Korean man certainly is not, no matter how anguished his pleas for help were. The President is going to take as low a profile as he can from here to Election Day, no matter what happens "over there". It might be different if something happens over here, but only if there is an overwhelming consensus that Islam needs to be eliminated, and that's not going to happen, even if the jihadists kill another three or four thousand of us.
After the election, I expect all hell to break loose. The President was gambling that Iraq would be pacified before the primary season, and he lost that gamble. With the Rats in full "hate Bush" mode, he knows he has to lay pretty low in order to make them look like fools. He might have even accomplished this by now if the Abu Ghraib pictures had never been taken. After Kerry is defeated, and sent home with his tail between his legs to go back to being TehRayZuh's housepet, the President can drop the whole "religion of peace" crap at his leisure, when it suits his needs. We can do what has to be done next in the war for civilization.