Well now according to the polls, American's do think it has all gone wrong, and the president acknowledge that in his radio address on Saturday.

NPR: Bush Addresses War in Iraq with Speeches

From then on, it was all Brazilian smiles until my little burst of cheering coincided with the message getting out that it had all gone wrong for them.

BBC: Feeling the tension at Interlagos

If, at the time of the Cuban missile crisis, for example, which you and I remember because we were around, it had all gone wrong and the Russians had put a bolt from the blue on London and Mr MacMillan was killed, the decision whether to launch the B-force, the B-bombers with their hydrogen bombs, would have gone to the Chief of Bomber Command, an airman in uniform.

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