Well, it seems that our president's approval rating is the lowest since last March, and he and Kerry are at an almost dead heat according to the latest Gallup poll (
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/06/thu/index.html). And here comes the punchline: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is coming under heavy fire in the wake of the pictures released from Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. House Democrats are calling for his immediate resignation. Bush, of course, is standing steadfastly behind his man. All Bush could say concerning the politically damning pictures of Iraqi prisoners stripped, hooded, tortured, and forced to perform sex acts on each other was, simply, "Sorry."