It has been mentioned recently by many DUers that a tipping point has been reached. I would tend to agree (note the paragraph in bold below), but pessimist that I am, there is still a very long road ahead of us.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/25/politics/25ASSE.htmlBush Starts Out on a Five-Week Run Concerning Iraq, Much of It Apparently Uphill
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON
Published: May 25, 2004
WASHINGTON, May 24 - President Bush's speech on Monday night kicked off a critical five-week period in which the White House must not only make good on its pledge to return self-governance to the Iraqi people but also convince the American electorate that the benefits of deposing Saddam Hussein have outweighed the costs in blood, money and battered prestige.
It is a tall order. Mr. Bush spoke against the backdrop of unabated violence in Iraq, the prison abuse scandal, confusion about the plan for transferring authority to an as-yet-unnamed interim government on June 30 and the difficult negotiations concerning the role of the United Nations.
Making his task that much more complicated was the hard-fought presidential campaign, in which Mr. Bush's role as commander in chief is no longer the unalloyed strength the White House once assumed it would be.
In the hours before his address, delivered at the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., Mr. Bush got a fresh reminder of just how fully his political fate is now tied to events in Iraq.
A new crop of opinion polls showed that his job approval ratings continue to fall, that Americans increasingly think the nation is on the wrong track and that most people do not think Mr. Bush has a clear plan for bringing the involvement of the United States in Iraq to a successful conclusion.
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