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July 2008
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Hello, this is my first blog posting. Polls are a tricky business. But in the Washington Post's latest poll, the most striking development to me is the two-to-one disapproval of how the president is handling Iraq. Sounds bad at first. But brace for a bit of a rebound. Iraq's new government takes over Monday. If the new Iraqi leaders look and sound credible and field some effective military ops against insurgent/sectarian terrorists, then the President could look better. For a while... The Post's poll came out the same day Secretary Rumsfeld asked Congress for another $65 billion dollars for Iraq, Afghanistan - and for something we will hear more of: "the long war." That's the war on terror or GWOT - the Global War on Terror. Renaming the struggle to find and/or kill bin Laden, Zarqawi, Zawahiri et. al., the long war dates back to 2004. By then, it was clear the U.S.-led response to the 9/11 attacks will take longer than expected. In the book "COBRA II" by Michael Gordon, you can read how Secretary Rumsfeld and other senior administration civilians believed how taking Baghdad would be a Hence "the long war" or as Secretary Rumsfeld put it today "a decades-long 2 Comments |
Think the polls are bad now? just wait till we invade Iran, then you will see the true meaning of low poll counts.
The Democrats gave Saddam and the insurgency plenty of time to dig in didn't they? Way to go you Islamo-loving liberal nazi couch monkies!