Making progress
No, not in Iraq... but we seem to be making some slight progress in disabusing people of the notion that there is any legitimate connection between the fiasco in Iraq and what a reasonable response to bad guys ("folks" as GWB calls them) who attacked us. I refuse to legitimize the term War on Terror, both the use of the term and most of the acts committed under its banner, because it perpetuates the conflation of 9/11 and Iraq.
The reason for my feeling slightly hopeful is that today FDL and Crooks & Liars, among others, point out the fact that a NY Times/CBS News poll and a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll indicated that a majority of Americans "saw no link between the war in Iraq and the broader antiterror effort, a jump of 10 percentage points since June".
C&L also has some video of Paul Hackett and Chris Matthews on Hardball making life miserable for Van Taylor, the only Iraq vet running for the GOP this election, when he tries to make that specious link. The pathetic guy said that "We need to stay in Iraq until we get the job done. We've got to defeat the al-Qaeda terrorists who are trying to take over the country of Iraq" and the other two were all over him. Nice to see.
That line is right up there with the always outrageous Sen. Inhofe (R-OK) who won the "Outrageous GOP Quote of the Day" for uttering: "What's happened there is nothing short of a miracle". Yeah, right... the miracle of the triumph of insanity over reason.
The reason for my feeling slightly hopeful is that today FDL and Crooks & Liars, among others, point out the fact that a NY Times/CBS News poll and a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll indicated that a majority of Americans "saw no link between the war in Iraq and the broader antiterror effort, a jump of 10 percentage points since June".
C&L also has some video of Paul Hackett and Chris Matthews on Hardball making life miserable for Van Taylor, the only Iraq vet running for the GOP this election, when he tries to make that specious link. The pathetic guy said that "We need to stay in Iraq until we get the job done. We've got to defeat the al-Qaeda terrorists who are trying to take over the country of Iraq" and the other two were all over him. Nice to see.
That line is right up there with the always outrageous Sen. Inhofe (R-OK) who won the "Outrageous GOP Quote of the Day" for uttering: "What's happened there is nothing short of a miracle". Yeah, right... the miracle of the triumph of insanity over reason.
posted by Bill at 11:27 PM
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It's a miracle, all right. A miracle only 100 Iraqis are dying a day.
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