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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (507051)	12/10/2003 4:01:19 AM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Bush Poll Numbers Virtually Unchanged After Iraq Trip (CNSNews.com) - President George W. Bush's surprise Thanksgiving Day trip to visit the troops in Iraq has had relatively little impact on his job performance rating, which remained about the same from mid-October to early December, a new Zogby International poll said. The most recent Zogby poll - conducted Dec. 4-6 - gave Bush a 49 percent "positive" rating, and a 51 percent "negative" rating. That compares with 48 percent positive/52 percent negative rating in a Nov. 3-5 poll; and a 49 percent positive/ 51 percent negative in an Oct. 15-18 poll. Nearly 3 in 5 of those contacted said their overall opinion of Bush is somewhat or very favorable, while 40 percent said it is somewhat or very unfavorable. According to the Zogby poll, President Bush lags in his "re-elect" numbers, meaning that 44 percent of voters say he deserves to be re-elected, while 46 percent said it is time for someone new. But in early September, 52 percent of those polled said it was time for someone new to be elected. Asked if they think the country is heading in the right direction, 46 percent said yes and 46 percent said no. According to pollster John Zogby, "Democrats and Republicans continue to act as mirror images of each other...The concept of an equally divided nation continues," he said in a press release. The Zogby poll of 1,002 likely voters chosen at random has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.2 percentage points. townhall.com

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (507051)	12/10/2003 5:48:19 PM
From: Arthur Radley	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Codpiece is so anxious to turn over Iraq to the Iraqi's army, but appears now that Prolife, Watson and their ilk, that never wore the uniform of the military, will now have the chance to do it in Iraq since they will have so many openings.. Raise your hand if you think, Codpiece has himself in a bind??? Do we think we have another Vietnam??? Pentagon: One-third of new Iraqi army quit just before starting operations WASHINGTON (AP) — Plans to deploy the first battalion of Iraq's new army are in doubt because a third of the soldiers trained by the U.S.-led occupation authority have quit, defense officials said Wednesday. Touted as a key to Iraq's future, the 700-man battalion lost some 250 men over recent weeks as they were preparing to begin operations this month, Pentagon officials said. "We are aware that a third ... has apparently resigned and we are looking into that in order to ensure that we can recruit and retain high-quality people for a new Iraqi army," said Lt. Col. James Cassella, a Pentagon spokesman. The battalion was highly celebrated when the newly retrained soldiers, marching to the beat of a U.S. Army band, completed a nine-week basic training course in early October. The graduates, including 65 officers, were to be the core "of an army that will defend its country and not oppress it," Iraq's American administrator, L. Paul Bremer, said at the ceremony.