(SMH)Bush's mourning-after blues [View All]

[GregW]

Wow! SCATHING article on Dumbya in today's Sydney Morning Herald:

It is nearly five months since George Bush declared the war in Iraq over. But the body bags keep bringing his troops home and the President's status is plummeting as a result, Andrew West writes.

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The reality is that the George Bush who will arrive in Australia next month is a shrunken figure, suffering plummeting opinion poll ratings and skyrocketing unemployment at home, and mockery abroad. His domestic opponents characterised last week's speech to the United Nations, in which he sought its financial, military and civilian aid for the rebuilding of Iraq - although without relinquishing any US control - as "begging".

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But most of all, Bush is haunted by 167 names - the names of the US soldiers killed in Iraq since May 1, the day hostilities officially ended. That figure now exceeds the number - 139 - killed during the war. Another 1616 US troops have been wounded.

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Even the mythology of the war is unravelling. It turns out that Private Jessica Lynch, who was captured by Iraqis, was neither shot nor stabbed by Iraqis but was suffering a broken leg and arm. And far from being rescued in a heroic mission, US troops walked into a completely unguarded Iraqi hospital, where the medical staff had donated their own blood to her.

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