Since 2003 the democrats have been working overtime to undermine the efforts of the US troops in Iraq. There was more evidence of that this week. Democrats refocused their hatred of all things military on the Blackwater contractors- the security group who gives Congressional democrats protection when they travel to the quagmire.
Now that Iraq is on an upswing and America is backing the Bush plan for Iraq, what will democrats have left to offer?
As the Great Nahanni says... "They have sown the wind so much that they are going to reap a hurricane."
The Strata-Sphere:
Too bad Gallup did not have the guts to ask a real bottom line question. How many American support a plan the eliminates any opportunity to succeed (the Dems)? Probably very few. How many Americans would support a plan that would throw Iraq into bloody chaos and reinvigorate al-Qaeda (the Dems)? The fact is if someone stops focusing on the mechanics of each proposal and instead looked at the possible or likely outcomes then there is no real support for the Surrendercrats. But I could care less how long the media and the left delude themselves. Polls of American are not going to change a thing on the ground in Iraq. And right now al-Qaeda is on the run and we are the ones Iraqis call when they need to get rid of al-Qaeda pests in their neighborhoods. We patrol the streets of Iraq, al-Qaeda is scared to death to be caught by Iraqis alone on those same streets.
So, while the left is trying to distract from the progress we are seeing in Iraq, The American people are beginning to see that success is possible. Just the latest in the trend of support rising as good news comes out of Iraq.
The latest Gallup poll regarding Iraq is out and here is their bottom line:
It appears that Americans are less rigid about the precise details of the speed with which U.S. troops are withdrawn from Iraq than might have been thought, as long as at least some withdrawal is underway.
While elected officials in Washington, D.C. make fine-tuned distinctions between the various ways in which troops could be withdrawn, these data suggest that average Americans are not nearly as specific in their wishes. Almost half of Americans support both of two different plans for withdrawal. Factoring this group together with the smaller groups that support just one or the other plan, the results show that either of the plans for withdrawal of troops tested in this research has majority support from the American public.
One interpretation of these findings is that any plan that includes withdrawal has a good chance of gaining at least initial support from Americans. The way the basic questions about the two plans were structured, respondents may not have assumed that they were being asked if one plan was better than another, but rather about each plan as an option in and of itself. Some opponents of the war, in other words, may have felt that some plan to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq was better than no plan at all.
The data do show a slight preference for the plan that speeds up troop withdrawal to the point where most troops would be gone within the next nine months. But that preference is apparently not so rigid that many of those who favor that option would not support a slower plan as well.
In general, these data suggest that Bush administration policy in Iraq is well within the acceptable range for the American public. The results seem to suggest that as long as the administration is beginning the process of withdrawing at least some troops from Iraq, a majority of the American public will be satisfied.
Survey Methods
Results for this panel study are based on telephone interviews with 1,006 national adults, aged 18 and older, conducted Sept. 24-27, 2007. Respondents were drawn from Gallup's household panel, which was originally recruited through random selection methods. The final sample is weighted so it is representative of U.S. adults nationwide. For results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points.
The full results and graphs can be found here.
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