Mr Popular (redux)

via AMERICAblog:

Your friend and ours, George W. isn't doing so well in an AP-Ipsos poll just out.

• 70% of Republicans think civil war will break out in Iraq.
  
• 70% of Americans think US is on wrong track
• 37% approve of his job performance
• 74% of Republicans approve his performance, down from 82% in February
  
• 36% approval rating on domestic affairs, down from 39% last month
• 43% approval on foreign policy and terrorism
  
• 40% approval on Iraq and economy
• 2/3 disapprove of Congress job performance

Oh dear. That first statistic is rather interesting, though. The U.S. obviously doesn't think that if a Civil War breaks out in Iraq (errr, so what would you call what's going on at the moment, a 'Police Action'?) that it would be anything to do with them. Donald 'Bad Boy' Rumsfeld yesterday said: 
"The plan is to prevent a civil war, and to the extent that one were to occur, to have the -- from a security standpoint -- have the Iraqi security forces deal with it, to the extent that they're able to." 
Clear and concise, as ever. But the unavoidable sound of hands being washed seems to pervade the statement.