The War That Matters

That noted O’Reillyesque tool Rasmussen notes that public approval of the Iraq war is over the break-even point:

Confidence in the War on Terror increased for the fourth straight month in November and is now near the highest level of President Bush’s second term in office.

The latest Rasmussen Reports tracking poll finds that 47% of Americans now say the U.S. and its allies are winning the War on Terror (see crosstabs). That’s up from 43% a month ago and reflects is the highest level of confidence measured since December 2005. Over the past 35 months, confidence in the War on Terror has been higher than today only twice, in November and December 2005.

And the bigger news?

In what may be just as significant a finding, only 24% of voters now believe the terrorists are winning. That’s down from 30% a month ago and represents the lowest level of pessimism recorded since 2004…Partisan assessments of U.S. foreign policy success remain sharply divided. Sixty-seven percent (67%) of Republicans are optimistic about the short-term in Iraq, versus just 12% of Democrats.

Conventional wisdom says this is bad for Democrats. I’m not so sure.

I think this poll serves as a key item on the party and media’s (pardon the redunancy) to-do lists.  More progress must be covered up.  More crises must be manufactured (what DID all those armored humvees cost?)

I’m loath to use the “V” word in Iraq.  I’m even more so domestically.

6 thoughts on “The War That Matters

  1. Wooohooo, take that Defeatokrats!

    After 9/11, when President Bush declared war on the terrorsts in Iraq who attacked us, you all scoffed!

    But now you see that the War on Terror in Iraq is victorious!

    The terrorists in Iraq are defeated and you’re next!
    /jc

  2. The Democrats were swept into power, and yet we are still knee deep in the Big Muddy. When will they end this immoral war and get the military back to it’s proper role of global rice delivery service?

  3. But slash, Bush didn’t declare war on Iraq, congress did!
    Usually it’s lefties that combine immense faith in the power of government with little understanding of how it actually works.
    I’m beginning to think you’re a liberal in disguise, slash.

  4. I’m beginning to think you’re a liberal in disguise, slash.

    Background:

    Slash is a liberal – AND, as luck’d have it, an old friend of Angryclown in real life. They both work in the circus industry.

    And I’m bound by clown/”keeper of truth” privilege not to reveal anything more.

  5. Oh, I knew that. I imagine that is slash imagining the thoughts of a typical conservative. The fact that it didn’t fool anyone should make him think that he is, his imagination is just that.

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