[cva66snipe]

I really have to wonder what he is thinking. Does he really feel this strongly about this issue or is he just getting really bad advice?

Here it is basically. Bush from the beginning has surrounded himself with long time Friend of Family Yes Men. They were basically the same ones that Poppy had and failed. Don't tell him what he needs to know or you will be fired. Tell him only what he wants to hear and he still believes by what he is being told from his chosen that "All is well". I think that is most of his problem. Not a meanness but rather an arrogance that controls his thinking.

[citizen]

Here it is basically. Bush from the beginning has surrounded himself with long time Friend of Family Yes Men. They were basically the same ones that Poppy had and failed. Don't tell him what he needs to know or you will be fired. Tell him only what he wants to hear and he still believes by what he is being told from his chosen that "All is well". I think that is most of his problem. Not a meanness but rather an arrogance that controls his thinking.

Well, Bush does say he never reads the paper or TV news, that he gets it from his briefings so he could be somewhat unaware of how badly he is failing on some key issues.

Somewhat unaware but not totally unaware. If he's indeed totally unaware he should have never been elected.

[american spirit]

You are correct but it's pretty obvious that GB is nothing more than the useful idiot for the neo-conmen that seem to be directing foreign policy in the ME at the behest of _____(?)as well as crafting the American Union.