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『亜空間通信』1029号(2005/06/17)
【ブッシュ不利「泣き面に蜂」米戦死兵家族会が大統領糾弾の反戦集会・撤退決議案提出・世論調査】
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転送、転載、引用、訳出、大歓迎！
本日(2005/06/17)、ブッシュ不利、「泣き面に蜂」以上の状況急転の情報が、溢れ始めた。決め手は世論調査である。
この通信の最後には、アメリカの最大手新聞、ニューヨークタイムズと三大ネットワークの雄、CBSの共同によつ世論調査に関するニューヨークタイムズ記事を紹介する。
しかし、最初に紹介する電網（インターネット）市民新聞、日刊ベリタが伝える「米戦死兵の家族会が大統領糾弾の反戦集会 息子亡くした母が苦しい心情を吐露」が、最も象徴的、かつ決定的である。
中間には、議会でのイラク撤退決議案の審議状況を紹介する。
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http://www.nikkanberita.com/read.cgi?id=200506161447494
日刊ベリタ
2005年06月16日掲載 無料記事米戦死兵の家族会が大統領糾弾の反戦集会 息子亡くした母が苦しい心情を吐露
【コングレス（米アリゾナ州）１５日＝マクレーン末子】イラク戦争での米軍兵士の死者数は増え続け、６月に入って１７００人を超えた。戦死を名誉と考える風潮もある中、戦死兵の家族会は１３日、ケンタッキー州レキシントン市で反戦集会を開いた。参加者たちはブッシュ大統領を「不当な戦争」を始めたと強い口調で非難し、代表者が「大統領の黒い心臓に政治的致命傷となる棒を打ち込むのが人生で達成すべきこと」と、大統領にあてた手紙の一部を紹介すると、聴衆から大きな拍手が起こった。
米国では戦死者を持つ家族は、家の窓に金星が縁取られた小さな旗を掲げることから、金星家族と呼ばれている。「平和への金星家族会」の代表者、シンディー・シーハンさんはカリフォルニア出身。息子のケイシーさんは、昨年４月にバグダッドで戦死した。
サウジアラビア紙アルジャジーラがその戦死の模様を伝えたと言い、シーハンさんは「米軍当局は敵の奇襲攻撃で息子は死んだと伝えてきたが、友軍の誤爆によるという証拠もある。軍はうそをついている」と反発する。息子の死以来、シーハンさんはイラク侵略戦争反対を訴え続けている。
この日の集会でシーハンさんは、ブッシュ大統領が戦死兵の妻の痛みを和らげるのは「ハードワーク（きつい仕事）」と発言したことを揶揄（やゆ）し、愛する者を失った母親の苦しい心情を切々と吐露した。
「ハードワークは、最愛の息子の戦死をある日曜日の夕方、CNNニュースで知ったこと。ハードワークはその２時間後、息子の死を伝えるため訪れた軍将校を家に迎えねばならなかったこと。ハードワークは２５才の誕生日を前に、息子を埋葬しなければならなかったこと」。こう話したシーハンさんの一言一言が参加者たちの心を深く揺り動かした。
また、シーハンさんは「家族会は、国民を誤った方向へと導いた大統領を弾劾するために全力を挙げる」という大統領にあてた手紙をも引用した。 集会に参加した神学校で教鞭をとるグレン・ヒンソンさんは「米国は欲深くなりすぎ、道徳的に破綻している」と警鐘を鳴らした。
家族会は「自由と真実バスツアー」を通して各地で集会を開き、政府のうそを多くの人に知らせ、イラク侵略戦争を終わらせたいと活動を広げている。家族会は既にニューヨークとシカゴへのバスツアーを終えている。
「平和への金星家族会」は今年１月に設立され、現在の会員は約７０人。その中にはマイケル・ムアー監督の映画「華氏９・１１」に出演し、一躍有名となったリラ・リプスコムさんがいる。昨年９月、ローラ・ブッシュ大統領夫人の大統領選キャンペーン演説中、やじったかどで逮捕されたスー・ニーデラーさんも会員の一人だ。ニーデラーさんは、「ブッシュ大統領は息子を殺した」と書かれたTシャツを着て集会に参加、「いつあなたの娘さんたちは戦場に行くのか」と、ブッシュ大統領夫人に質問を浴びせ、スピーチを妨害した。
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米政府、イラク駐留米軍撤退の決議案を拒否 (ロイター)６月１６日、米政府は、イラク駐留米軍の撤退を求める決議案を拒否した。写真は１月、イラクで訓練を行う米軍戦車。提供写真（２００５年 ロイター）
［ワシントン １６日 ロイター］ 米下院議員らは１６日、イラク駐留米軍の撤退を求める決議案を提出したが、政府と国防総省は決議案を即座に拒否した。
決議案は、ウォルター・ジョーンズ下院議員（共和党、ノースカロライナ州）とニール・アバクロンビー下院議員（民主党、ハワイ州）が作成し、ブッシュ政権に、イラク駐留米軍の全面撤退計画を年内に作成し、２００６年１０月までに撤退を開始するよう求めている。
ジョーンズ議員は、米軍はフセイン元大統領を追放し、イラク人に民主主義実現の機会を与え、（イラクの）軍を訓練していると指摘。そのうえで、「訓練を終えた後、他の目標は何になるだろう。われわれは、（イラクに）２０年も３０年も駐留したいだろうか」と述べた。
[ 2005年6月17日10時47分 ]
ニューヨークタイムズの記事の題名は「ブッシュの主要案件で世論調査が急落」である。
イラク戦争の現状に関する悲観、社会保障政策に関する懐疑が、急速に広がっているのである。
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/17/politics/17poll.html?th&emc=th
June 17, 2005Bush's Support on Major Issues Tumbles in Poll
By ROBIN TONER and MARJORIE CONNELLYIncreasingly pessimistic about Iraq and skeptical about President Bush's plan for Social Security, Americans are in a season of political discontent, giving Mr. Bush one of the lowest approval ratings of his presidency and even lower marks to Congress, according to the New York Times/CBS News Poll.
Forty-two percent of the people responding to the poll said they approved of the way Mr. Bush was handling his job, a marked decline from his 51 percent rating after of the November election, when he embarked on an ambitious second term agenda led by the overhaul of Social Security. Sixteen months before the midterm elections, Congress fared even worse in the survey, with the approval of just 33 percent of the respondents, and 19 percent saying Congress shared their priorities.
Despite months of presidential effort, the nationwide poll found the public is not rallying toward Mr. Bush's vision of a new Social Security that would allow younger workers to put part of their payroll taxes into private investment accounts. Two-thirds said they were uneasy about Mr. Bush's ability to make sound decisions on Social Security. Only 25 percent said they approved of the way Mr. Bush was handling Social Security, down slightly from what the poll found in March.
Moreover, 45 percent said the more they heard about the Bush plan, the less they liked it. The survey also found the public shared the growing skepticism in Washington about Mr. Bush's prospects for success on Social Security, with most saying they did not think Mr. Bush would succeed.
Still, Mr. Bush continued to have majority support for his handling of the war on terrorism - 52 percent - one of his strengths throughout his 2004 re-election campaign.
Mr. Bush's approval rating is below the historical pattern for June in the first year of a second term: President Clinton's stood at 60 percent and President Reagan's at 59 percent. But that could reflect, in part, the much greater partisan polarization in modern politics, underscored by the 71 percentage point gap between Mr. Bush's approval rating from Democrats and Republicans in the recent poll. Nicolle Devenish, White House communications director, dismissed the significance of the poll, saying Mr. Bush believes that following polls is equivalent to a dog chasing its tail. "We have advanced a broad agenda, and will continue to advocate the people's priorities," she said.
On Iraq, months of continued turmoil, insurgent attacks and casualties appear to have taken a further toll on public attitudes. Looking back, 51 percent said they thought the United States should have stayed out of Iraq, while 45 percent said military action was the right thing to do. That reflects only a slight erosion from findings by CBS News throughout the spring, but a marked turnaround from 2004, when pluralities tended to think it was still the right thing to do.
Moreover, only 37 percent said they approved of Mr. Bush's handling of the situation in Iraq, down from 45 percent in February. A strong majority of Americans now say the effort by the United States to bring stability and order to Iraq is going badly - 60 percent, up from 47 percent in February.
The latest poll was conducted by telephone June 10 through Wednesday with 1,111 adults and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.
In general, the survey found Americans in a darker mood. In one key measure, only 33 percent said they thought the country was on the right track, while 61 percent said it had gone off in the wrong direction. Similar results were found by CBS News in April and May, but that measure of national optimism was markedly better last November. There was little change in the way Americans rate the current condition of the American economy - 54 percent say it is very or fairly good. But the number of Americans who say the economy is getting worse is growing, to 36 percent from 30 percent in February.
When asked an open-ended question about the most important problems facing the nation, Americans cited the economy and jobs, war and terrorism at the top of the list. Social Security, which has consumed an enormous amount of political energy this spring, did not make the top six, suggesting voters have a different view of political priorities than the Republican-controlled Congress and the White House.
The public's view of Congress dropped sharply earlier this year, and has hovered at unusually low levels since March, according to CBS News Polls.
The sharpest drop in Congressional approval in recent months occurred among Republicans. In February, 54 percent of Republicans said they approved of the way Congress was doing its job; in the most recent poll, that had dropped to 40 percent. Some analysts suggest that Congress is paying the price for months of intense partisan struggle over judicial nominations and the decision to intervene in the right-to-die case of Terri Schiavo.
Christine Weisman, a 54-year-old Republican homemaker in Reading, Pa., said in a follow-up interview, "They're not getting anything done. They don't seem to be able to come together on anything." She added, "It's all a political thing and they're forgetting the basic needs of the people."
Representative Rahm Emanuel, the Illinois Democrat who heads the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said, "The American people know instinctively that we have major problems and we've got a Congress that is not attending or dealing with them." As the party in control, Republicans should be held responsible, Mr. Emanuel said, although he added that the 2006 midterms were far too distant for predictions.
Representative Thomas M. Reynolds of New York, who heads the National Republican Congressional Committee, said the old truism still held: "People are not enamored, maybe, of the institution of Congress, but they love their congressman." He added, "My advice to the policy makers around Congress is to continue to get the work done, and make sure that as we get the work done, people know about it."
Mr. Bush faces a very resistant public when it comes to his Social Security proposals. He recently embraced a solvency plan that would cushion the lowest income workers from any benefit cuts, but a majority in the survey said they still believed Mr. Bush's general plan would most benefit high income people.
He has spent months trying to explain the virtues of private investment accounts, but public opinion on them remains very divided. Forty-five percent said those accounts were a good idea, 50 percent a bad idea, the same breakdown found in the survey in January.
People like the idea that the accounts could be inherited and that they could result in more money for retirement; both arguments boost support for the accounts. But the idea that these accounts could lead to huge amounts of government borrowing - to finance the transition costs - resulted in a very negative response, as did the idea that the accounts would be accompanied by a cut in the guaranteed government benefit.
Americans also recognized that Mr. Bush has a Social Security plan and the Democrats in Congress do not. A majority said they would like to see the Democrats offer a plan and not simply oppose Mr. Bush's.
But most said they did not think Mr. Bush's plan for private accounts would do anything for the system's long-term solvency.
Mr. Bush's approval rating in the Times/CBS Survey is one of a series of recent national polls that registered difficulties for Mr. Bush. The Associated Press-Ipsos Poll found Mr. Bush with a 43 percent approval rating; Gallup with 47 percent, and the Washington Post/ABC News Poll at 48 percent.
Fred Backus contributed reporting for this article.
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