It probably won’t, Ed, because it simply won’t be reported.

I was listening to WBZ, an all-news station out of Boston this morning, and the news anchor started reading a story about this new Pew Poll. He totally ignored this part of the poll results, and concentrated instead on how the same poll found that most Americans no longer have any idea of how many American soldiers have been killed in Iraq. This was immediately followed by a report from Vic Ratner of “ABC News”, who emphasized that the “majority” of polls show that Americans still think going to war in Iraq was a bad idea.

It was all very slickly done, so well that the brain-dead radio audience in Taxachusetts would probably never even know about the other results of this poll.

Grow Fins on March 13, 2008 at 11:42 AM

Democrat Congress = highest troop level of war, highest expenditure level.

Yes! You! Can!

How the media let people like Obama . . . get away with their negative outlook is beyond me

Obama? Negative? Yes he can!

And how to square this circle? 60% believe the war a mistake…..54% believe history will judge the war a failure.

So many polls..Which one to choose to bolster our own version of reality? I really wish we’d ignore these things entirely. A majority of Americans see a successful conclusion in Iraq? So what? Of course we all trumpet this poll because it validates our beliefs.

A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day…so check back often….

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To you libs out there, answer honstly: If you could choose between Iraq succeeding and the dems losing the election OR Iraq falling apart and the dems winning the election, which would it be?

Tony737 on March 12, 2008 at 9:39 PM

You won’t get an honest answer.

Don’t expect to see a glaring headline at the so-called “libertarian” movement’s banner Blog – Reason.com. And you most certainly will not see this up at LewRockwell.com, Justin Raimondo’s AntiWar.com, Knappster, ThirdPartyWatch, Free Liberal, Liberty Papers, or other leftist sites posing as “libertarians.”

Fortunately, you will see the news reported at REAL libertarian websites and Blogs, like Libertarian Republican, RealWorldLibertarian, Tammy Bruce, Neal Boortz News Born Again Redneck, Gay Patriot, and Mainstream libertarians.

There are still Goldwaterites, true libertarians, out there who support liberty and freedom across the board, and for everyone around the world.

If you all get the chance hop on over to Reason.com and express your disgust with the way the so-called “libertarian” site, ignores good news out of Iraq.

For poor ol’ McCain’s sake, let’s hope that the chewing gum, baling wire and duct tape holding Iraq together doesn’t fail before November(as it seems to be doing).

Still…$12,000,000,000.00 a month buys a lot of duct tape.

Had GWB been honest enough to tell the country that we needed to protect vital economic/strategic interest from a growing Iranian threat and that Iraq had provided us with an opportunity (thank you Saddam) to influence events in the region

dmann on March 13, 2008 at 1:01 AM

BTW, Sunni Saddam was a counter wieght to Shiite Iran. Now under mostly Shiite control, Iraq is hardly a counter weight to fellow Shiite Iran.

dmann on March 13, 2008 at 1:01 AM

Don’t take my word for it.

From a survey of active duty officers (and this was before little Mahmoud’s grand reception in Iraq):

Furthermore, it appears that many officers find that the efforts of US forces have sometimes been counterproductive. Asked what country had gained the “greatest strategic advantage” from the war in Iraq, 37% said Iran while 22% answered China. Just one in five of the officers answered that the US had gained the most.

BAGHDAD (AP) — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived Sunday in Baghdad for the first-ever visit by an Iranian president to Iraq, walking a red carpet past Iraqi troops to meet the president of a once-bitter enemy nation that’s now under growing Iranian influence.
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani greeted Ahmadinejad at his car and the two kissed four times on the cheeks in the traditional fashion. A military honor guard saluted the two and a band played the two countries’ national anthems as they walked slowly down the red carpet at Talabani’s headquarters.
The visit gives Ahmadinejad a chance to highlight the relationship his nation has with post-Saddam Hussein Iraq while also serving as an act of defiance toward the U.S., which accuses Iran of training and giving weapons to Shiite extremists in Iraq.
Ahmadinejad is scheduled to meet not only with Talabani but also Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, both of whom have made official visits to Iran since taking office.

I wonder how those percentages would change now. I’ll bet that 37% for Iraq would go up, probably a good bit, and the 20% for the U.S. would go down, probably a good bit.

Iraq is the lynchpin of strategic standing for the United States in the Mideast. Saddam’s arrogance and stubborn stupidity in disregarding the UN sanctions imposed upon him after the first Gulf war provided the excuse the United States needed to establish a qausi legitimate presence in (or close enough to) the Persian Gulf. Had GWB been honest enough to tell the country that we needed to protect vital economic/strategic interest from a growing Iranian threat and that Iraq had provided us with an opportunity (thank you Saddam) to influence events in the region, I believe most Americans would have understood the long term commitment required to carry out the mission. As for a better understanding of Islam…based on my personal working experience with both indigenous and foreign born Muslims, regardless of my secular tolerance and Christian values, I am, and will always be nothing more than an wayward infidel/kafir.

This is why we are better off with Obama leading in the race, with a bitter and vindictive Hillary sniping at him. His signature issue is his supposed opposition to American victory, even though that is mainly because he has been in office for too short a time to make any significant votes, much less initiatives.

Obama will NEVER will NEVER. I still have faith in the American people and their ability to see through his BS. That is the difference between his America and mine. I think most Americans love this country “perceived” warts and all. He thinks his bumper sticker stump speeches are gonna fly when it comes time to vote.

Obama meet footnote, footnote meet Obama.

The “ash-heap of history” is piled high with those who have.

Your point being; what would the 8 track of
isolationist-libertarian policy like to see?

dmann on March 12, 2008 at 11:16 PM

Iraq’s only a battle in the war By Diana West

Such a proposition is always undone by the word “bloodbath,” as though Americans are eternally obligated to serve as buffers between the warring Islamic tribes of Iraq — which is both cracked and a good way to tie up American forces for the next several centuries.

There’s a world of trouble outside Iraq. At the very least, it’s debatable whether building bridges between Sunnis and Shiites inside Iraq should remain American Priority No. 1.

Your point being; what would the 8 track of
isolationist-libertarian policy like to see?

dmann on March 12, 2008 at 11:16 PM

I don’t have any 8 tracks and I am not an isolationist and what I would like to see is a less Iraqi-centric view of the world along with a more realistic view of Islam.

That is the idea!

Its going to be fun if polls like this grow and the dems go into a split convention. Its pretty pathetic that they’ve put themselves in a position that they have to root for us to lose there.

Look at the collection of news stories just from today. Hell, last week is looked like this might be the best month for us to date. Only two soldiers died in all of March before the weekend, then it spiked heavily.

Typhonsentra on March 12, 2008 at 10:48 PM

Seriously? Damn.

Your point being; what would the 8 track of
isolationist-libertarian policy like to see?