The record lows in opinion polls shows that Mr. Bush's war aims are unpopular with the American people.

Even though a lap dog mainstream press still gives Mr. Bush the benefit of doubt simply because it is good business (or else face FCC scrutiny), the people of America are fed up with his dreams of imperialist war for empire. The most clear way that can be seen is the fact that parents of draft age offspring do not want them to join the military. This is especially true in the meat grinder services of Army and Marine branches.

NYT opinion writer Frank Rich writes:

LIKE the Japanese soldier marooned on an island for years after V-J Day, President Bush may be the last person in the country to learn that for Americans, if not Iraqis, the war in Iraq is over. "We will stay the course," he insistently tells us from his Texas ranch. What do you mean we, white man?

However Mr. Bush and his cohorts insist on "staying the course" in Iraq.

MediaChannel.org has a long post on nine claims by Mr. Bush and his cabal about Iraq and rebuttal which shows that those claims are happening already.

Everything that opponents of a pullout say would happen if the U.S. left Iraq is happening already, says retired Gen. William E. Odom, the head of the National Security Agency during the Reagan administration. So why stay?

1) We would leave behind a civil war.

2) We would lose credibility on the world stage.

3) It would embolden the insurgency and cripple the move toward democracy.

4) Iraq would become a haven for terrorists.

5) Iranian influence in Iraq would increase.

6) Unrest might spread in the region and/or draw in Iraq's neighbors.

7) Shiite-Sunni clashes would worsen.

8) We haven’t fully trained the Iraqi military and police forces yet.

9) Talk of deadlines would undercut the morale of our troops.

In the real world there is reality, from the Washington Post:

The United States no longer expects to see a model new democracy, a self-supporting oil industry or a society in which the majority of people are free from serious security or economic challenges, U.S. officials say.

"What we expected to achieve was never realistic given the timetable or what unfolded on the ground," said a senior official involved in policy since the 2003 invasion. "We are in a process of absorbing the factors of the situation we're in and shedding the unreality that dominated at the beginning."

Administration officials still emphasize how much they have achieved despite the chaos that followed the invasion and the escalating insurgency. "Iraqis are taking control of their country, building a free nation that can govern itself, sustain itself and defend itself. And we're helping Iraqis succeed," President Bush said yesterday in his radio address.

Tell me what is the reality?

The Bush version of what he wishes Iraq to become or the fact that there will be no democratic government for Iraq which will be friendly to America.

Americans are already becoming aware of the lies by Mr. Bush and his backers in corporate media.

There is good reason why people are paying attention to Karl Rove's act of treason and subsequent coverup of outing the CIA's operative, Valarie Plame, who was a WMD proliferation specialist.

This act against America and Mr. Bush's stated goal of winning the so-called "War on Terror" shows the blatant attitude that politics triumphs over all else. Mr. Bush is showing Americans that his "vision" for Iraq cannot be achieved nor does his self proclaimed "War on Terror" is serious business because of the self serving political ends it must meet first.

-ken