Other surveys suggest that, although a majority of Canadians favour a joint military command structure in North America and support (marginally) a ground invasion of Iraq to change its regime, they doubt Mr Bush's reasons for changing it.
The government says any new structure would operate outside the national joint council framework which governs pay and conditions for local government employees.
And marriage penalties live on in the basic tax structure because the higher brackets for joint filers are less than twice as wide as for single filers.
And he has a decent foreign-policy record, from taking France back into NATO's military structure to his intervention in the 2008 Russian-Georgian war and his joint leadership of the campaign against Libya.
And some are doing both: Nissan has formed a joint venture with NEC to produce advanced Li-ion batteries that use a laminated structure to improve cooling.
Yahoo, Softbank and Alibaba Group issued a joint statement Sunday that is clearly addressed at trying to calm the storm over the ownership structure of the online payments company Alipay.
In fact, published reports reveal that Defense Secretary Les Aspin is untroubled by the prospect of laying down the law on the services, on the Joint Chiefs of Staff and on the regional commanders in chief regarding the dramatic changes in force structure and strategy he advocates.