Reply #25: No, and here is why I think his bounce will be smaller than he hopes.

[McCamy Taylor]

Americans now know that there was no reason to go to war in Iraq, that Osama bin Laden was within our grasp but we let him go, Iraq is now al Qaeda's training ground, that al Qaeda has gotten stronger because of the invasion of Iraq. Most of all, they know about the DSM, which paint Blair and Bush as being lying, scheming invaders of Iraq. Therefore, they are going to attribute some of the blame for this attack to a failure of leadership of both men.

Most of all, the way you drum up patriotic fervor in the wake of such an attack is you invade some country. But we are out of troops and out of countries to invade, even if the American people were willing to invade another country which they are not.

I suspect that * blew up those bombs in an attempt to keep Britain from pulling its troops out of Iraq and maybe to save Blair's political career. If Blair is kicked out, *'s chances of getting impeached over here rise dramatically.


The only way I can see * benefitting from this is if it was staged to get the UN all hot and bothered so that the US could hand over military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan to the UN, freeing * from his no-win war. Now THAT would get him a bounce in the polls.