Why do 50% of the people believe this man?

Tonight, George W. Bush gave a speech that, in a rare show of good taste, the net­works did not deign to cover. How­ever, NPR did cover it, and we lis­tened to a lit­tle of the thing. Our Pres­i­dent spent much of the time asso­ci­at­ing Iraq, both past and present, with terrorism.

What I don’t get, is why peo­ple still believe him. Just because he’s the Pres­i­dent doesn’t mean he’s not lying to you! His own Admin­is­tra­tion has admit­ted that Sad­dam Hussein’s gov­ern­ment had noth­ing to do with 9/11. If Iraq has any­thing to do with global ter­ror­ism now, it’s because of Bush’s war and other poli­cies regard­ing Arab nations. He started the war for his own rea­sons, and that war has served to inflame sen­ti­ment against the United States, thus fos­ter­ing an increase in ter­ror­ism. Bush has made the world less safe for us.

But because he says Iraq and ter­ror­ism are the same, we must con­tinue to fight this war, and actu­ally, we were jus­ti­fied in start­ing this war in the first place! Yeah, that’s it!

It just makes me so angry.