Day: August 9, 2006

Rob of Say Anything takes apart the numbers of a CNN poll and concludes that although 60% of Americans oppose the war in Iraq, 91% support keeping the troops there. Strange? You bet.

It seems to me that opposing a war is an either/or proposition. What kind of a person opposes a war and then turns around and says that they support keeping our troops in harm’s way fighting a war they don’t approve of?

I think these muddled results are an indication of just how thoroughly mislead on Iraq many people are. I think most people support the concept of the mission in Iraq (as evidenced by the fact that 91% of the people responding to this poll want to keep troops there) yet because they are fed a daily diet of negativity and outright hostility toward the President and his foreign policies by the press many of them can’t help but feel that something must be wrong or going wrong with the war. Thus the 60% opposition to the war in general.

Rob’s right on the money with his perception of how Americans can both oppose the war yet desire to keep our troops in Iraq to win the mission.

What’s really frustrating with polls (in general) is like this one, few are provided with any serious data, like the sampling, the questions asked, etc. Not that the MSM cares much about the real data, so long as they can pull out a sensationalized headline.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gets his spot on CBS’ 60 Minutes this Sunday. 88 year-old Mike Wallace does the interviewing, but that remains to be seen. I think he’s playing the part of ‘useful idiot’ to Ahmadinejad, who desperately needs main stream media to propagate his doublespeak. Here’s a sample:

On what the “conducive conditions” would be for Iran to establish relations with the U.S., the president said, “Well, please look at the makeup of the American administration, the behavior of the American administration. See how they talk down to my nation. And this recent resolution passed about the nuclear issue, look at the wording. They have given us — presented us with a package which we are studying right now. We even gave them a date for our response. Ignoring that, they passed a resolution. They want to build an empire. And they don’t want to live side-by-side in peace with other nations. The American government, sir, it is very clear to me they have to change their behavior and everything will be resolved. (George W. Bush) believes that his power emanates from his nuclear warhead arsenals. The time of the bomb is in the past, it’s behind us. Today is the era of thoughts, dialogue and cultural exchanges.”

Gee, does it sound like Mahmoud is speaking to the Cindy Sheehan’s, the Ned Lamont’s, the Arianna Huffington’s and all their moonbat followers? It sure does.

While Ahmadinejad mouths sweet words to Mike Wallace, he pulls the strings of terrorists worldwide. Don’t be fooled. 

Hot Air has all you need to know about the elections last night in Connecticut and Georgia. If you want a good belly laugh, check out Cynthia McKinney’s concession speech. It’s a hoot. Oh, and then there is the singing thing, which is just plain wrong.