War of the Worlds

In Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds, earth and mankind battle to survive some pretty nasty aliens. In George Bush's version of, War of the Worlds, America is caught in a quagmire.

No matter how many troops he sends in, the bad guys send in more. No matter how many bad guys he kills off, terrorist cells from all over the world immediately send in replacements.

And now a recent "L.A. Times poll" shows that only 12% of Americans support Bush's plan to send in more troops into Iraq. Another recent poll taken this month by Bloomberg - USA reports the majority of Americans want the troops to get now. His Joint Chiefs all oppose the president. His miliary advisors and generals oppose him. The intensity of this opposition is remarkable: A recent ABC News Poll records 57 percent "strongly" disapprove of Bush's handling of Iraq, 50 percent strongly feel the war was not worth fighting and a record 49 percent strongly disapprove of his job performance overall, compared with just 18 percent who strongly approve.

Even the republican platform has begun to swing just a tad slightly to its left, yet Bush continues to stand unwavering steadfast and firm in his conviction he is going to win the battle with the bad guys who want to take over the world.

So maybe it's the country that's looking at this whole thing wrong. Maybe Bush really is much more astute than we give him credit for. Maybe he is more clever than the rest of us.

Maybe he does know something we don't. Maybe his strategy all along was to use Iraq as one giant terrorist magnet to pull all the bad guys in and then mow them down one by one.

Who knows? Maybe George Bush is smarter than Steven Spielberg. I mean, who knew?