Public opposition to Bush's war is growing

The latest Washington Post-ABC News poll shows enormous opposition to the Bush Iraq policy:

Negative assessments of the war in Iraq -- the central issue in last month's midterm election -- continue to hold down President Bush's job approval ratings and could cast an pall on the final two years of his presidency.

In a new Post-ABC News poll, seven in 10 Americans disapprove of the way the President is handling the situation in Iraq -- the highest percentage since the March 2003 invasion. Six in 10 say the war was not worth fighting.

This, of course, explains why the White House is doing the public relations blitz to make it look like the President is engaged. The "listening tour" is part of the plan to be followed by the big nationally televised next week. But the listening tour scam is making Bush look inept. AMERICAblog commenter Charles 2 had a good point "shouldn't he have done a listening tour before invading?" Bush should have at least been asking some questions along the way.

We've been down this path of campaign-like photo ops and spin with the White House many times. Through it all, Iraq has only gotten worse. The American people are way, way ahead of their President when it comes to his war of choice. They want a solution, not a public relations campaign.