Bush made it clear: He's staying the course

According to the latest NY Times/CBS poll:

80 percent said Mr. Bush’s latest effort to rally public support for the [Iraq] conflict amounted to a change in language but not policy.

That is an astounding number. 80 percent. As evidenced by two interviews Bush gave yesterday, they're right.

In both interviews, the message from George Bush was simple: In Iraq, we're staying the course. He didn't use the phrase. He didn't have to. It was obvious. With Rush Limbaugh, he wanted to make sure the right wingers knew that his strategy was, in fact, stay the course:

With less than a week before the election, President Bush sought to rally Republican voters on Wednesday with a vigorous defense of the war in Iraq and a vow to keep Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld in office until the end of Mr. Bush’s term.

Mr. Bush appeared on Rush Limbaugh’s radio program, whose audience is a reservoir of conservative voters, to criticize Democrats as lacking a plan for victory in Iraq.

Bush reiterated that stay the course message with the Associated Press:

Bush credited Rumsfeld with overseeing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while overhauling the military. "I'm pleased with the progress we're making," the president said.

Bush has never been honest with the American people about the war in Iraq. The American people have figured that out. But, Bush doesn't know the American people have figured it out, so he just keeps lying and spinning. No one has held Bush accountable. Five days til that changes.