Free Fall

It's a free fall
when your back's against the wall
When you hit rock bottom
and the bottom drops out

From CNN/USA Today/Gallup

38% approve of the job Bush is doing.
47% approve how he is handling terrorism, “down 7 points since early February and a record low.”
64% disapprove of Bush’s handling of Iraq, a record high.
52% do not find Bush “honest and trustworthy,” tying November’s worst-ever mark.

Former U.N. Official Deplores Iraq Abuses

AP - SYDNEY, Australia - Human rights abuses in Iraq are as bad now as they were under Saddam Hussein, as lawlessness and sectarian violence sweep the country, the former U.N. human rights chief in Iraq said Thursday.

John Pace, who last month left his post as director of the human rights office at the U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq, said the level of extra-judicial executions and torture is soaring, and morgue workers are being threatened by both government-backed militia and insurgents not to properly investigate deaths.

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