pmb, I am anything but mindlessly servile. Truth is: most people don't know their ass from their elbow in this country and every other country on the planet. They know the truths that are told to them. What you choose to believe is your own business.
In times of crises we should be united as one, whether it is an election year or not. I would put the lives of myself and my family in the hands of W, flawed though he may be, before I would trust one word an Arab leader or the media has to say.