American secret: We are winning the war in Iraq
Pookie
Sunday, December 18, 2005
By Michael Bowers, Star columnist
Even as up to 70 percent of eligible voters in Iraq turned out for the
parliamentary election Thursday, Newsweek was painting a picture of
President Bush in a bubble, "the most isolated president in modern history."
"Inattention to Murtha, a coal-country Pennsylvanian and rock-solid
patriot, suggests a level of indifference, if not denial, that is dangerous
for a president who seeks to transform the world."
"What Bush actually hears and takes in, however, is not clear. And whether
his advisers are quite as frank as they claim to be with the president is
also questionable."
"The official says that the way Bush phrased his questions, as well as his
obvious lack of interest in long, detailed discussions, had a chilling
effect."
The Newsweek attack amounts to yet another false meme in the litany of
slander against the president. First: Bush is stupid. Then: Bush lied,
people died. Now: Bush lives in a bubble.
Let me translate. What the magazine really means is: "Bush refuses to do
what we tell him to do."
I'm sure that as far as Bush is concerned, the magazine can naff off. He has
long since rejected the New York-Washington-California press as an honest
voice in the debate. His administration considers coastal journalists to be
nothing more than a political action committee for the Democrats.
Bush has decided to accept this as a natural state of affairs. He doesn't
fight the press; he has simply cut it out of the process. He intends to make
the right decisions in Iraq and let events vindicate him two or three
decades hence.
It's a good plan. What fool seeks advice from his enemies? Listen to one of
Newsweek's top editors himself, Evan Thomas. No one can call Thomas a
Republican. He is not only one of the authors of the "bubble" hit job, he is
also the grandson of the famous American socialist Norman Thomas. Yet, last
year Thomas admitted:
"The media, I think, wants Kerry to win. And I think they're going to
portray Kerry and Edwards ... as being young and dynamic and optimistic and
all; there's going to be this glow about them that some, is going to be
worth, collectively, the two of them, that's going to be worth maybe 15
points."
It's not just the 2004 election in which these 15 points come into play.
It's every election, and it's every poll. So the next time you read that
Bush's popularity is 39 percent approval vs. 55 disapproval, remember to add
15. If the press didn't mark the cards, Bush's rating would be 54 percent
approval vs. 40 percent disapproval -- excellent numbers for a president in
his second term.
The same equation applies to the 2008 election. If Mitt Romney runs against
Hillary Clinton, he doesn't have to win 51 percent of the vote -- he has to
win 66 percent. Romney will need a landslide. Democrats were angry that Bush
"stole" the 2000 election. Bush didn't steal it. He just won it by less than
a landslide.
Press bias is a corruption of American democracy, but more immediately, it
is a betrayal of the Iraqi people. They want to see our troops leave their
country -- but only after we have established their security first.
Consider a recent survey of Iraqis carried out for the BBC and ABC News. How
is the new government performing? It's doing a good job, say 61 percent. How
are things going in their personal lives? Quite well, say 71 percent. Will
their lives improve in the coming year? Yes, say 61 percent. Will the
situation improve nationwide? Yes, say 69 percent.
Killing the jihad crazies at a ratio of 20:1, our soldiers are similarly
optimistic. But just 33 percent of our journalists believe we will establish
democracy in Iraq. Now, who would know better? The Iraqi people and the
soldiers? Or the reporters? Tough call, isn't it?
The Brookings Institution makes other crucial points. Despite terrorist
sabotage, the Iraqi economy is likely to grow 17 percent next year. Per
capita income is 30 percent higher than before the war. There are five times
as many cars on the street, five times more telephone subscribers and 32
times more Internet users.
According to ABC News, teacher salaries have risen from $9 a month to $200.
Civil servants and police officers have seen similar pay increases.
Norman Podhoretz adds that our troops have built 3,400 public schools, 300
water and sewage facilities, 260 fire and police stations, and 150
public-health facilities. Another 920 such projects are under way. And here
I thought we were there just to steal the oil.
To an observer without an agenda, it's clear we are winning the war. It's
also clear this is the best-kept secret in America today. It is agonizing
every time a bomb kills another Marine. But the story here is more than just
our casualty count.
Democrats such as Howard Dean declare "the idea that we're going to win the
war in Iraq is an idea which is just plain wrong." How can he say something
so offensive and ignorant?
The answer is that, secretly, his party is deeply frightened of victory.
Many Democrats don't believe America deserves to win. They don't believe our
military can ever be a force for good, unless it's fighting to save Russian
communism from extinction, as it did 65 years ago. They don't want Bush to
get any credit. Tearing him down is more important than securing a stable
and prosperous Iraq.
Mr. President, block out the losers. Stay in your "bubble." Finish this war.
Win.
President, GOP Liars Club
infrastructure. Life there is worse than under Hussein. More than 80,000
Iraqis have been interred and at least 30,000 are dead. This is progress?
InkyDinky
"Pookie" <pooki...@optonline.net> wrote in message
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> American secret: We are winning the war in Iraq
>
ROFLMAO
Next you'll be claiming chickens are voting for Colonel Sanders.
QuestionIsrael
Wow! excellent article. only problem is it ignores US funding of the
Israeli occupation of its neighbors. Until the US stops siding with
Israel in its fight with the Palestinians, it will not be safe from
9/11 type attacks.
-Steve
QuestionIsrael
70% of the eligible voters in Iraq cast a ballot. Did any of the
leading candidate advocate immediate removal of the American soldiers?
-Steve
Bjorn Frei
"Pootie" <pooki...@optonline.net> wrote in message
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American secret: Bush declared War on America.
PerfectlyAble
President, GOP Liars Club wrote:
No progress is getting America to believe that Iraqis could have
create a nation and have elections without our help. That we have
Bush to thank that people who choose freedom wouldn't do so
without the US having to bomb, sanction, setup with non-existance
typos of WMD programs, then invade and leave their streets
lawless and crime ridden.
No, this is progress, progress in proving that Bush has nothing left
to explain why the fuck he is in Iraq!
He's been sanded down to this false hope that Iraqis will want
to thank the US for their desire for freedom. Yeah, their desire
to be free of the US, vote here, here and here. They come in
droves to appease the US goal, please leave soon! We vote, ok,
we vote as you wanted, now please leave.
Such is the modern failure of America, as post-modernism
takes it's hold of protestant evangelicalism, where the govt
can both reject a established religion yet also embrace it.
Americans are also privvy to the most base anti-americanism,
that a free people would need an outside super-power to
give them democracy. I'm sure German and Japan would love
to hear that shit, they really believe that without the US,
without the consent of their cizitens there would be any
chance anything the US said or did that would make them
choose democracy. Please America get the crap over yourself.
SgtMinor
> American secret: We are winning the war in Iraq
>
> Sunday, December 18, 2005
It's absolutely amazing that, time after time, Pookie is able to find
writings by guys who are dumber than Bush.
Bjorn Frei
"SgtMinor" <Sa...@the.old.folks.home.invalid> wrote in message
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> Pookie wrote:
>> American secret: We are winning the war in Iraq
>>
>> Sunday, December 18, 2005
>
> It's absolutely amazing that, time after time, Pookie is able to find
> writings by guys who are dumber than Bush.
Consider the source.
Pookie
"SgtMinor" <Sa...@the.old.folks.home.invalid> wrote in message
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> > American secret: We are winning the war in Iraq
> >
> > Sunday, December 18, 2005
>
> It's absolutely amazing that, time after time, Pookie is able to find
> writings by guys who are dumber than Bush.
Didn't have to look very hard...you just wrote...proving your point...good
job!
robw
Your thoughts?
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robw
( now predictably, the lame arse moron will say it's me. Whoops! took that
bullet out of his love gun)
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robw
Yr really are a lame arsed moron.
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robw
Think the latest scandal is gonna help yr?
Moron.
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Moron.
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Jan Kalin
>American secret: We are winning the war in Iraq
It is a very well kept secret.
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"QuestionIsrael" <Questio...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1134929616....@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
> 70% of the eligible voters in Iraq cast a ballot. Did any of the
> leading candidate advocate immediate removal of the American soldiers?
>
> -Steve
>
Congratulations on a very cleverly worded post. Of course, you must
know that the National Sovereignty Committee of the U.S. backed
Iraqi parliament issued a unanimous report calling for the end of U.S
occupation.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051024/hayden
rw
"I was not prepared to shoot my eardrum out with a shotgun in
order to get a deferment. Nor was I willing to go to Canada".
George W. Bush