Polls Polls Polls
Pretty funny satire on the latest Zogby poll, which shows that U.S. troops in Iraq are ready to come home, dammit. Only 23 percent backed Mr. Bush's position that they should stay as long as necessary. In contrast, 72 percent said that U.S. troops should be pulled out within one year. Of those, 29 percent said they should withdraw ''immediately.''
Of course, maybe one shouldn't poll troops, in the field, about whether they should keep fighting. The troops might have an incentive, a self-interested motive, to "cut and run," as the WarHawks like to say. (But probably not like to say to the troops' faces.) But when the troops and the general public no longer support the war, and the Iraqis sure as hell want us out, then, well, one has to wonder, what the hell are we still doing there? One comes to the realization that we are there to prevent the collapse of the charade that we are there for . . . some reason . . . some good reason . . . if you give me a minute, I'll think of it . . . just a minute . . . thinking. . . oh, yeah. We have to fight the terrorists over there, so that we don't have to fight them over here. I almost forgot.
How did things come to this? How did this happen? One word: why?
posted by Number Three @ 9:38 PM
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What are you talking about? Victor Davis Hanson says we're winning in his WSJ op-ed today. He can't understand why anyone would think otherwise: "what seems to me most inexplicable is . . . that the more we are winning in the field, the more we are losing [the war] at home." Read the whole thing at http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008030 if you want to plumb the stygian depths of human capacity for self delusion.
The WSJ op-ed piece was, well a classic -- if it weren't Hanson I would have thought it parody. This is no time to get soft! Let's lock shield and spear and march together in hoplite formation! Don't break the ranks! Beloved Spartans, come home with your shield or upon it!
Another tidbit from the Zogby poll of troops in Iraq:
85% said the U.S. mission is mainly “to retaliate for Saddam’s role in the 9-11 attacks.”
77% said they also believe the main or a major reason for the war was “to stop Saddam from protecting al Qaeda in Iraq.”
Really, really sad.
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