May 09 2007

Dems Hanging By A Thread On Iraq

Published by at 7:37 am under All General Discussions,Iraq

The Democrats – er, sorry.. SurrenderCrats – are barely holding on to public support regarding Iraq. The SurrenderMedia is touting a new poll showing the public is giving support to deadlines, but the poll also shows the Democrats cannot sustain that support. Especially if it becomes well known in this country that we have already made huge progress in Anbar and are now focused on repeating that success elsewhere. Here are the stunning numbers:

The public agrees. In the new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Tuesday, 57 percent want Congress to pass another bill with funding and timetables. (Read the complete poll results — PDF)

The poll surveyed 1,028 American adults between Friday and Sunday. It has a sampling error of 3 percentage points. (Interactive: Poll results)

But while previous surveys show Americans are pessimistic about the outcome of the war, a majority of 55 percent said they were not yet willing to declare it “lost.” The prevailing view, held by 63 percent of Americans polled in April, is that neither side is winning.

Democratic leaders have said they won’t cut off support for the troops, and the majority of the public agrees they should not, according to the CNN poll. Sixty percent of those polled oppose a measure that would provide no additional funds for the troops and require them to withdraw by next March.

The first poll number is easily reversible given the second two numbers. 60% oppose withdrawaling troops and not funding them. No March 08 deadline. 55% do not believe “the war is lost”. The timelines are simply a plea for a plan. Sadly plans of war cannot be broadcast for the public and enemy to digest. But what happens if rays of hope begin to surface in Iraq? What happens if the example of Anbar becomes solid enough to be what the public wants – a clear strategy and goal? Well, then the Dems will have been totally screwed. Because their desire to lose will be repudiated by America’s will to succeed. And no one ever again will want to be associated with the Party that tried to Surrender Iraq to Bin Laden. As the proverb says: watch what you ask for, you just might get it.

Update: That thread the Surrendercrats are on just took a big hit today in the national media:

Al Qaeda’s terrorists in Iraq now face a new enemy: Sunni tribesmen in Anbar Province. These tribal leaders in the heart of the insurgency are now backing coalition and Iraqi forces against the terrorists.

You want good news from Iraq? There it is, in flashing neon.

These Anbar leaders aren’t just jawing. Thousands of Sunnis have rushed to join local police forces, with tribal leaders’ encouragement. “The progress has inspired an optimism in the American command that, among some officials, borders on giddiness,” The New York Times reported. “There are some people who would say we’ve won the war out here,” one Marine officer said.

That’s a phrase you don’t hear often in Iraq.

That is a phrase that will send shivers up and down the spine of the Surrendercrats. As it should.

Update: The Dems are the ones suffering a civil war. It seems some have noticed the thread is fraying and are getting upset with the anti-US crowd.

15 responses so far

15 Responses to “Dems Hanging By A Thread On Iraq”

  1. momdear1 says:

    Another subject:

    Are we missing the big story about all the contaminated “pet” and animal foods coming out of China? And whether it will make it’s way into our food chain? Contaminated foodstuffs is not the only concern that is being overlooked in the rush to “globalize” everything. China is now exporting pure junk to the US and it is being sold to unsuspecting Americans by Chinamart (WalMart).

    Chinese junk purchased recently:

    plastic sewing machine bobbins that break after being used two or three times.

    Unwoven blankets that pull apart, like a wet paper towel, when you pull on them.

    Small Appliances with plastic parts that break, and it costs more to repair than to replace.

    Substandard Clothing and Fabrics not marked for shrinkage and dye and wrinkle resistance.

    Over 40 Years ago, Congress passed laws regulating US made fabrics. Everything had to be labeled for shrinkage, colorfastness, ( dyes that don’t fade or run) and wrinkle resistance. Today, you never know what you are getting until you wash it, and then it is too late.

  2. Soothsayer says:

    Bush’s approval is at 28%; 39% of the American people want the idiot impeached NOW – and the Dems are hanging on by a thread.

    Meanwhile, a story guaranteed to get bigger and bigger has surfaced, related to both USAttorneygate AND unlawful suppression of minority voters:

    Voting rights attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has called for prison time for the new US Attorney for Arkansas, Timothy Griffin and investigation of Griffin’s former boss, Karl Rove, chief political advisor to President Bush.

    Timothy Griffin, the new US attorney in Arkansas, was actually the mastermind behind the voter fraud efforts by the Bush Administration to disenfranchise over a million voters through ‘caging’ techniques – which are illegal.

    BBC reporter Greg Palast’s new edition of his book, “Armed Madhouse” reproduces a copy of a confidential Bush-Cheney campaign email, dated August 26, 2004, in which Griffin directs Republican operatives to use ‘caging’ lists.

    This is one of the emails subpoenaed by Congress but supposedly “lost” by Rove’s office. Palast obtained 500 of these, fifty with ‘caging’ lists attached.

    ‘Caging’ lists are “absolutely illegal” under the Voting Rights Act, the 1965 law making it a felony crime to challenge voters when race is a factor in the targeting. African-American voters comprised the bulk of the 70,000 voters ‘caged’ in a single state, Florida.

    The Bush campaign mailed out letters particularly targeting African-American soldiers sent overseas. When the letters sent to the home addresses of the soldiers came back “undeliverable” because the servicemen were in Baghdad or elsewhere, the Republican Party would, “challenge the voter’s registration and thereby prevent their absentee ballots being counted.”

    The Republicans successfully challenged “at least one million” votes of minority voters in the 2004 election.

    Now that Congress is conducting actual oversight of the lawless Bush Administration, a lot of heretofore felonies are going to be uncovered.

  3. lurker9876 says:

    Bwhahahaha…the 28 percent already disproved. Newswe(a)k has no data supporting its 28 percent approval of Bush.

    Bush Adm remains the most uncorrupted adm to date. I doubt seriously that many, if any,felonies will be uncovered. Oversight is going to reveal almost nothing.

  4. Soothsayer says:

    Bwa-ha-ha – funny thing is the Newsweek poll confirms the Wall Street Journal/ Harris poll showing approval for Bush at 28%, but I’m sure you’ll find some infantile excuses for ignoring that polling also.

    Would you care to bet on oversight revealing nothing? Seems to me we already have one conviction for felounious perjury and construction of justice.

  5. Aitch748 says:

    Impeachment? Bwa-ha-ha! I’ll believe it when I see it.

  6. kathie says:

    Why don’t the Dems get it? It is not the PLACE that is important, it’s the common thinking of these killers. They are many places, but one thought. Kill every body who doesn’t think like me. The Iranians and bin Laden lead, promote and finance the radical thinking, they have organizations they support like Hamas, Hizbollah, Islamic Jihad, Muslim Brotherhood, that represent their thinking. They are every place.

  7. scaulen says:

    Yeah I so believe pols with an oversampling of certain political groups. Oh wait I don’t even believe pols to begin with so, to quote the net generation whateva.

  8. kathie says:

    Maybe we should do polls on domestic programs, cut and run from the ones people don’t like.

  9. momdear1 says:

    OOOOh! Soothie, Are we going to complain about the supressed military votes? What about all those military absentee ballots that were tossed into drums with the 3rd class mail and left sitting undelivered until after the election during the 1996 election? But that was Clever because the Clintonistas did it.

    I am surprised that Bush has any approval rating at all after the constant trashing and repetition of deliberate lies accusing him of everything but beating his mother, that has gone on since he took office.

    Jesus couldn’t muster a good rating if he had taken the beating Bush has.

    Somebody needs to ask the American Poeple, “Do we want George Soros to run this country?” He has control of Congress and if we aren’t careful he will get control of the White House.

  10. lurker9876 says:

    Would you care to bet on oversight revealing nothing? Seems to me we already have one conviction for felounious perjury and construction of justice.

    Which will be overturned through appeals or pardon.

    Funny, there’s only one conviction so far.

    Yet, The Clinton Legacy was riddled with one of the highest number of convictions.

    There are only a few more months left and we just *might* see one or two more convictions but I doubt it.

    I just checked the WSJ poll numbers over at Real Clear Politics:

    As of NBC/WSJ 04/20 – 04/23 35% 60%

    As far as the Harris poll numbers, what percentile of the total number were Democratic voters?

    Besides that, I’m with Scaulen! Regarding the comment about Jesus!

  11. The Macker says:

    And it grates on the libs no end that Bush seems oblivious to polls and popular media.They don’t recognize strength because it’s not in their nature. I believe history will remember that this President did the right things and kept his head without yielding to the loud and mindless. He is an example for the ages.

  12. Dc says:

    Tuthslayer…ever hear of ACORN?? Do you know what convictions came out of all the investigations into voter fraud in ’04??

    Sheesh.

  13. Dc says:

    NYT:

    WASHINGTON, April 11 — Five years after the Bush administration began a crackdown on voter fraud, the Justice Department has turned up virtually no evidence of any organized effort to skew federal elections, according to court records and interviews.

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    Darren Hauck for The New York Times
    Nashawna Prude, 9, with a family photo that includes her grandmother, Kimberly, second from left, , jailed for more than a year for voter fraud. Enlarge This Image

    Darren Hauck for The New York Times
    Ms. Prude’s daughter Nicole with her children, Anthony Bibins, 4; Nashawna; and Narvelle Handley, 1, at home last week in Milwaukee.

    Although Republican activists have repeatedly said fraud is so widespread that it has corrupted the political process and, possibly, cost the party election victories, about 120 people have been charged and 86 convicted as of last year.

    Most of those charged have been Democrats, voting records show. Many of those charged by the Justice Department appear to have mistakenly filled out registration forms or misunderstood eligibility rules, a review of court records and interviews with prosecutors and defense lawyers show.

    In Miami, an assistant United States attorney said many cases there involved what were apparently mistakes by immigrants, not fraud.

    Now..is\’nt this just so RIPE?? LOL. Yes..it was the repulbicans making such a stink after election 04 about stolen elections!!!

    And then..at the end of the day, even by NYT admission.more democrats were actually convicted of voter fraud. FURTHER: NYT suggests that there was so little fraud conviction….they simply do NOT understand what repulbicans are talking about when they say they were concerned about any widespread voter fraud at all in election 04 or why anybody would make a big stink about it(ROTFLMAO)

    NPR showcases series about how hard it is to prove voter fraud. hahahahaahaha.

    Gawd.

  14. Dc says:

    I think what Truthslayer is trying to say..is that your shit stinks but his doesn’t.

  15. Dc says:

    Truthslayer? Do you want to contest this (ie..that more DNC person were convicted of voter fraud in realtion to the ’04 election than RNC..and that no evidence was found of wide spread corruption??? You want to dispute that and offer evidence?