Please watch the BBC 4 doco on Lee Atwater the Darth Vader of the Republican Party. Atwater’s tactics were legendary described as unethical and dirty, he was widely regarded as a near-brilliant political operative who helped the likes of Bush Pt1 and Reagan get into power. Its currently on the BBC IPlayer
Go back a few weeks. The polls said the nation suspected the Prime Minister of having deceived its representatives in the House of Commons. The polls said we believed he had deliberately misled us over Iraqi munitions to get some urgency into ‘our’ support for George W. Bush’s Middle Eastern expedition, and get the sacking…
http://www.drudgereport.com for updates (c)DRUDGE REPORT 2004 Since the end of the Vietnam War successive American presidents have worried that their military actions would lose support once the public glimpsed the remains of U.S. soldiers arriving back at air bases in flag-draped caskets. To this problem, the Bush administration has found a simple solution: it has…