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The main reason cited by voters who disapprove of Bush is the war in Iraq. |
CAIRO — US President George W. Bush was named the worst American president since the World War II basically due the his poor job performance and the polarizing war on Iraq, a new poll has showed.
Bush was picked as the worst US leader in modern history by 34 percent of voters, followed by Richard Nixon at 17 percent and Bill Clinton at 16 percent, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll, The Chicago Tribune reported Friday, June 2.
Bush has been ranked worst by 56 percent of Democrats, 35 percent of independent voters and seven percent of Republicans, the independent Quinnipiac University poll finds.
Among young voters, 42 percent list Bush as worst.
A total of 38 percent of voters are "very satisfied" or "somewhat satisfied" with the way things are going in the United States today, while 62 percent are "somewhat dissatisfied" or "very dissatisfied."
American voters disapprove 58 - 35 percent of the job Bush is doing. Even voters in states that gave him a lead in the November 2004 elections, disapprove 52 - 39 percent of Bush's policies.
Leading the list for best President since 1945 is Ronald Reagan with 28 percent, and Clinton with 25 percent.
The poll was conducted From May 23 – 30 on 1,534 registered voters nationwide. The survey has a margin of error of +/- 2.5 percentage points.
Books attacking policies of Bush are flooding US bookstores; mainly attacking his imposition of a theocracy and fanning flames of anti-Americanism.
Iraq War
The main reason cited by voters who disapprove of Bush is the war in Iraq, according to a press release by the Quinnipiac University.
American voters say 56 - 39 percent that going to war in Iraq was the wrong thing to do.
The US should remove all troops from Iraq, 29 percent of voters say, with 28 percent who want the US to decrease the number of troops; 26 percent who want to maintain current troop levels and 11 percent who want to increase troop levels.
"Bush's job approval numbers remain in the cellar," said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, "but he might finally have hit bottom."
Staunchly backed by Britain, the US invaded Iraq in March 2003 on the grounds that it was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction and had links to Al-Qaeda.
A congressional report later concluded the Bush administration was "dead wrong" on the MWD claim and that Iraq had no link with Al-Qaeda.
Former veteran CIA agent Tyler Drumheller, in an interview with CBS's "60 minutes" broadcast on April 23, revealed that Bush and top White House officials simply brushed off a CIA assertion that Iraq had no WMDs, saying they were "no longer interested" in intelligence and that the policy toward Iraq had been already set. |
