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President Bush's approval rating has risen to 44% in a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll [7] conducted September 15-17, 2006. This represents his highest marks in a year. Concurrently, for the first time since December 2005, a majority of people did not say the war in Iraq was a mistake. This shift is particularly interesting in light of a Z Magazine [8] web article [9] that analyzes the Bush administration's recent PR push to ensure that safety from terror and staying the White House's course are one and the same. Hardly striking a moderate tone, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld [10] has accused the administration's critics of not learning “history’s lessons,” while the President himself in an August 31, 2006 speech [11] to the American Legion [12] National Convention labeled the terrorists “successors to Fascists, to Nazis, to Communists and other totalitarians of the 20th century.”
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[1] http://dev.prwatch.org/user/1781
[2] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/war-peace/terrorism
[3] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/politics
[4] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/public-relations
[5] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/war-peace
[6] http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fdev.prwatch.org%2Fspin%2F2006%2F09%2F5195%2Fpr-pushes-poll-numbers&linkname=PR%20Pushes%20Poll%20Numbers
[7] http://www.usatoday.com/news/polls/tables/live/2006-09-18-poll.htm
[8] http://zmagsite.zmag.org/curTOC.htm
[9] http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=21&ItemID=10989
[10] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Donald_Rumsfeld
[11] http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/08/print/20060831-1.html
[12] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Legion
[13] http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-09-18-bush-poll_x.htm