Iraqi Elections
No, not those ones, the IMPORTANT ones, in Britain and the USA.
Now that the UK has had its elections (did you know the PM gets to call for elections whenever he wants, as long as its within 5 years? How wild is that?) I think we can sum up the results thusly:
Bush eeked out a win because, despite people generally not agreeing his agenda, he managed to keep everyone terrified of the spooky terrorists.
Blair eeked out a win because, despite people generally not agreeing with his agenda, he managed to keep everyone terrified of the spooky conservatives.
Now that the UK has had its elections (did you know the PM gets to call for elections whenever he wants, as long as its within 5 years? How wild is that?) I think we can sum up the results thusly:
Bush eeked out a win because, despite people generally not agreeing his agenda, he managed to keep everyone terrified of the spooky terrorists.
Blair eeked out a win because, despite people generally not agreeing with his agenda, he managed to keep everyone terrified of the spooky conservatives.
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Blair was (and is) really up against it, because from what I've read, the conservatives and the left (Liberal-Democrats) in his country don't really like his domestic agenda either. In many ways, the Iraq War was both the core, and the icing on the cake of anti-Blair feelings.
So, yeah, he was campaigning from a position of weakness on both Iraq and Domestic issues and it showed at the polls.
Bush was technically in the hole on both issues, but he *campaigned* from a position of strength on both. "We're Winning the War!" and "We're winning the Culture War!" were essentially the messages. And conservatives and a fair amount of moderates bought it.
Suckers.
Well, I definitely think we're winning the war (both wars, I guess), but I couldn't give a rat's ass about the "Culture War."
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