Thursday, March 04, 2004


Yahoo! News - Iraqi Casualties Unlikely to Hurt Bush Election
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iraq policy is only a low priority for American voters and the mounting civilian casualty toll there is unlikely to damage President Bush's re-election chances, political analysts and pollsters say.

If a few hundred or even a few thousand Iraqis get killed, the average American citizen doesn't see that as relevant to them," said University of Iowa political scientist and pollster Arthur Miller.

I think this speaks volumes about our country. We just don't give a shit when it comes to the rest of the world, and that will come back to haunt us someday.