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Ever since he came on the scene as a serious presidential contender, Bush has "talked the talk," but not "walked the walk." Pick a topic -- (not) fighting for his judicial nominees, (not) opposing the Kennedy education bill fiasco, promoting diversity and political correctness in every venue, letting the abortion issie die right along with the thousands of babies claimed as victims by horrific methods such as partial birth abortion, covering up every single vestige of criminal behavior by the Clintons and their pals, failing to build back our military with alacrity and commitment (see Mark Helprin's article for the discouraging statistics!), palsy-walsy politics praising the Muslims -- yes, all those religious souls who can't bring themselves to condemn the actions of the suicide-murderers -- so that the biggest winner in the last year has been the Muslim religion (with converts galore right here in the US of A)-- these and so many more things have brought me to puzzlement and then, despair. And I was one who fervently worked, paid, phoned, walked the precincts, prayed, and rallied weekly in our city for Bush in 2000!! Even more discouraging to me than the Bush disappointment(s) is the fact that the majority of Republicans, conservatives included, are apparently befogged by the same kind of denial that we criticized so vociferously when it was the Democrats defending Clinton. Bush 41, Clinton, Bush 42 -- it is beginning to look as though history will not show many major political differences between them, once it gets past the personal peccadilloes and the impeachment over Monica. How very sad are the lost opportunities.

I am quite surprised there are not more posts to this thread. It's almost as though people don't want to hear the truth.

This article is a very cogent explanation of that uneasy, somewhat confused feeling many Americans who support Bush have about the supposedly pending invasion of Iraq.

Imho, the conflict within the administration is at the root of this. Bush is going to have some major decisions very soon about whose advice he is going to follow.

What he really needs to do, though, is to follow his own heart,and head, and DISREGARD the advice of some of the people he respects. Not always an easy thing to do.

But he better make up his mind soon, or he's going to lose whatever edge he possesses.