Will Americans' alarm at Bush* horrible government revive after Isabel?

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http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2003/sept/21/opinion/20030921opi4.html

An administration in disarray

WHILE Hurricane Isabel granted President George W. Bush a brief respite this week from the constant stream of bad news coming out of the Middle East, its ravages on Washington and the mid-Atlantic states might pale in comparison to the gathering political storm over his war in Iraq.
That storm is likely to gain even more force when the public has a chance to absorb this past week’s events, which mostly slid under the media radar as Isabel approached the capital.
Particularly striking were signs of growing disarray at the highest levels of the administration, such as Bush’s assertion that there was “no evidence” linking Iraq to the 9/11 attacks on New York and the Pentagon, a statement that appeared at odds both with what Vice President Dick Cheney claimed as recently as last Sunday and what he and some Pentagon officials had been advocating months before the war.
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At the same time, a steadily growing chorus of Democrats, increasingly confident that Bush has made a lethal political error in diverting the “war on terrorism” to Iraq, is clamoring for “heads to roll” at the highest levels of his administration, as the Democratic leader in the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, said this week. Most of those calls are being directed at the Pentagon’s civilian leadership, notably the top three officials: Donald Rumsfeld; his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz; and undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, who had responsibility for postwar planning.
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If that was not enough, lawmakers from both parties are also expressing growing alarm at the $87-billion request Bush submitted almost two weeks ago to fund operations in Iraq and Afghanistan in the coming year.
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But rather than rally together to fight off these attacks, the hawks appear to be squawking at one another.
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