Must Read: The Wreckage in the China Shop

While the American people are losing faith in his failed leadership, President Bush continues to engage in divisive partisan rhetoric, instead of offering a real plan for success in Iraq and smart and tough policies to fight the war on terror. Specifically, the latest Bloomberg News/Los Angeles Times Poll shows that President Bush no longer commands the trust of the American people on a host of issues. [Bloomberg News, 6/29/06]

An article by Bob Herbert in the New York Times today discusses a new study that highlights the Bush Administration's numerous foreign policy failures and the dangerous implications of not having a plan for Iraq. According to a bipartisan survey of foreign policy professionals, Bush Administration policies are not making America safer. It is clear that you cannot trust Republicans to keep America safe. President Bush has undermined America's security at every turn and his failed leadership on homeland security, the war on terror and in Iraq, has only made America less safe.

Democrats remain committed to a tough and smart plan that provides real benchmarks for success so that our troops can come home and be redeployed so that we can fight and win the war on terror.

The Wreckage in the China Shop
By Bob Herbert
The New York Times
June 29, 2006

"After all the sound and fury of the past few years, how is the U.S. doing in its fight against terrorism? Not too well, according to a recent survey of more than 100 highly respected foreign policy and national security experts. ...The respondents included Republicans and Democrats, moderates, liberals and conservatives. The survey's findings were striking. A strong, bipartisan consensus emerged on two crucial points: 84 percent of the respondents said the United States was not winning the war on terror, and 86 percent said the world was becoming more -- not less -- dangerous for Americans...

"An article on the survey, in the July/August edition of Foreign Policy, said of the respondents, 'They see a national security apparatus in disrepair and a government that is failing to protect the public from the next attack.' ...'Foreign policy experts have never been in so much agreement about an administration's performance abroad,' said Leslie Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations and a participant in the survey. 'The reason is that it's clear to nearly all that Bush and his team have had a totally unrealistic view of what they can accomplish with military force and threats of force.'...

"We need a better, smarter way."

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