Where does the buck stop?

No.. not with the President. It stops with the idiots that put him in office.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - For the first time, a majority of Americans believe the Iraq war was the "wrong thing to do", according to a poll published in The Wall Street Journal.

Fifty-three percent of those asked in the Harris Interactive survey felt that "taking military action against Iraq was the... wrong thing to do", against 34 percent who thought it was correct, the newspaper said.

The percentage of people opposing the US-led invasion of the country in March 2003 was up from a figure of 49 percent in a parallel poll in September, rising above 50 percent for the first time since the surveys began.

The latest poll also found that 66 percent of Americans believed President George W. Bush was doing a "poor" or "only fair" job of handling Iraq, against 32 percent who deemed it "excellent" or "pretty good".

With the number of US military fatalities in Iraq approaching 2,000, 44 percent of those polled said the situation for US troops in Iraq was getting worse, compared to 19 percent who thought it was improving.

Sixty-one percent were not confident US policies in Iraq would succeed, two points higher than in September.

I would be more sympathetic to the role of the American public in this historically unprecedented disaster of governance, but it should have been obvious to all who could read a newspaper or watch a debate on TV that what they were getting was a former drug and alcohol addict, who ran business after business into the ground, with the intellectual capability of a four year old.

People would constantly brush off Bush's misstatements and mangling of the English language as some sort of cute "average guy" routine. No, he really is that stupid. Watch his off the cuff remarks he gives with the press today. He can barely get the words out of his mouth.

Frankly, he is a moron and because of that he turned over crucial decision making to very smart, but very evil people.

As I heard Alex Bennet describe it, "He told the middle class what he was going to do to you, and you voted for him anyway."

But, hey, don't take my word for it. Colin Powell's former chief of staff has ripping the Administration a new one lately. The right wingers brush him off by saying, "he must have a book deal", because they refuse to finally admit the truth.

We are smack dab in the middle of the worst presidency this country has ever seen, and people are finally waking up to it. I just wish most Americans weren't so stupid to fall for it all in the first place.

So.. lets have a taste of what Powell's chief of staff had to say.. and then ask yourself why Powell quit the administration. Link to the whole thing here:

When I first discussed this group in a speech last week at the New American Foundation in Washington, my comments caused a significant stir because I had been chief of staff to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell between 2002 and 2005.

But it's absolutely true. I believe that the decisions of this cabal were sometimes made with the full and witting support of the president and sometimes with something less. More often than not, then-national security advisor Condoleezza Rice was simply steamrolled by this cabal.

....the ruinous foreign policy of George W. Bush....

It takes firm leadership to preside over the bureaucracy. But it also takes a willingness to listen to dissenting opinions. It requires leaders who can analyze, synthesize, ponder and decide.

The administration's performance during its first four years would have been even worse without Powell's damage control. At least once a week, it seemed, Powell trooped over to the Oval Office and cleaned all the dog poop off the carpet. He held a youthful, inexperienced president's hand. He told him everything would be all right because he, the secretary of State, would fix it....

Today, we have a president whose approval rating is 38% and a vice president who speaks only to Rush Limbaugh and assembled military forces. We have a secretary of Defense presiding over the death-by-a-thousand-cuts of our overstretched armed forces (no surprise to ignored dissenters such as former Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric Shinseki or former Army Secretary Thomas White).

It's a disaster. Given the choice, I'd choose a frustrating bureaucracy over an efficient cabal every time.