Normally I would believe this is just one wrong pollster but I notice that the water carriers in the media have been scavenging for negatives about Iraq.  One that caught me attention was the American war dead for the year.  They wanted to emphasize that it was going up from last year.  I thought that was a strange figure since if you look at it monthly it is going down. 

This tells me the libs been given the same info from their pollsters and they want to immediately spread more negative news to suppress this.

  What I find notable is the fact that this proves the country doesn't get it's news from just the msm. 

  Another thing, the antics of the dems in congress with their anti-troop slander and 'cut and run' legislation is offensive to the country as a whole.

  Back in 1968 the anti-war movement did influence the presidential election.  They ensured the election of Richard Nixon.  The election became about what type of people would run the country not just who would be president.  That scenario is now repeating itself.

I'd give a buck to know what's going in Dingy "The War is Lost" Harry Reid's head right now...

He and all the rest of the White Flag Dems are hosed.

Bring on the YouTube compilations of their troop-backstabbing, cowardly utterances!

It's kind of difficult, in today's information age, for the lies (yes, LIES) about the situation in Iraq to continue. People are slowly beginning to realize that most of the rhetoric from the Dems has been sensationalized, cherry-picked, or plain false for political gain. The bad news followed by more bad news from the LSM has been mostly to advance socio/political agendas of the "news" sources. This could only go on for so long before people began to wise up.

 The single most striking shift is the change in opinion about how the war in Iraq is going. After four and a half years of steady downward trends, there has been a reversal of direction since July.

There never was a "steady downward trend". We have been making progress in Iraq since day one. Sometimes it was much slower than might have been desired, but we never went backwards, which is, to me, what "downward trend" means. Schools, hospitals, and infrastructure have constantly been improving, but was never reported. Iraqis have been stepping up and (albeit slowly) taking over their own security. Not reported. Many, if not most, Iraqis are appreciative of our efforts, yet only the disgruntled make the news. Most of the "insurgents" weren't even Iraqi in the first place. They were imported to kill both Americans AND Iraqis. The Sunni/Shiite conflicts have been artificially created by these same "insurgents" to stir up trouble and sway American public opinion against the war, a propaganda effort whole-heartedly assisted by our own LSM.

From January through June, the long running collapse in positive evaluation of the war (especially in the second half of 2006) halted. The flattening now appears to have clearly coincided with the change in command and troop levels.

The Dems made their own bed with this one. They insisted for years that we didn't have enough troops in Iraq. When we put more troops there, they waffled, saying we needed to get out entirely. Then they insisted on public testimony from our military leadership, which tied their hands as to the release of positive information (the main reason for the MoveOn ad). People finally got positive information direct from the commander on the scene, something the Dems coudn't refute (even though they tried - thanks Harry Reid and friends). 

The second phase of opinion change started in early July, when positive evaluations of the war took their first upturn since late 2003 (around the time of the capture of Saddam Husein). The trend estimate has turned up some 8 percentage points since July 1, still not back to early 2006 levels, but remarkable this late in an unpopular war and with a weak leader and determined opposition.

People have finally begun to realize (or remember) that we are in a war. Wars have battles. People, especially soldiers, die in battle. Then the lefties poke themselves in the eye when they compare Iraq to WWII and Vietnam. WWII lasted four years and we suffered well over 400,000 casualties. Vietnam lasted basically eight years (depending on when one counts the actual start and end dates) and cost us 58,000 casualties. We've been in constant combat in Iraq for almost five years, and have suffered less than 4,000 casualties. Yet these disparities are conveniently overlooked as a true comparison (even though there is no true comparison between the three conflicts).

People are finally waking up and realizing they have been spoon-fed BS for the last several years by the Lefties in the media and congress. I'm just hoping this realization picks up momentum and slams the Left like an 18-wheeler on cruise control...

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