The Coming Uprising
President George W. Bush, the head of an administration which sees just about anything less than absolute obedience as high treason, is seeing more of his citizens think the Second Persian Gulf War might have been a bit of a bad idea.
Well, we were a little late, and we've already been had, but I guess we're starting to get it. Maybe we'll have completely wised up by Nov. 7th, 2006.The proportion of respondents who said they believe the war in Iraq has made the United States less safe from terrorism jumped to 54 percent in the latest poll. That is a dramatic increase from 39 percent in the poll conducted June 29-30, a week before the London attacks.
Of the 489 people asked that specific question, 40 percent believed the Iraq war had made the United States safer -- down from 44 percent in the previous poll.
The other 517 poll respondents were asked whether the Iraq war had made the world safer. Forty percent said it had, and 52 percent said it made the world less safe.
