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Texpat

I say Friday's a much better target. Yes, this Friday.

They'll never get their shit together if they're coddled for another five years.

Panda

Looks like the US isn't going to get control of the oil, so may as well pull out now.

Boon Mee

Rasmussen Reports suggest that Americans know we are more likely to succeed in Iraq if John McCain is President.

By 49% to 42%, respondents say it is "likely is it that the U.S. would win the War in Iraq if McCain is elected president."

On the other hand, only 20% think that if Obama is elected, we are likely to succeed. How about that campaign theme for ya! A vote for BO is a vote for faliure!

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lom

A polling institute makes a survey where a small majority (diff is 7%) is of the opinion that "it is likely".
Wtf has it to do with knowing? ("suggests that Americans know").

You're reading the poll result like satan is reading the bible. As usual.

Norton

Guess it depends on how one defines success. If you want to cite polls, how about the ones that indicate approx 72% want the US out of Iraq within a year. Think they will have achieved success by then. Think not!!

Iraq

sabang

Ipso facto, a vote for Bush was a vote for success.

Panda

And do you think the average American knows anything about Iraq, (or anywhere else for that matter) apart from what they see on the domestic news?

raycarey

and by taking a look at the stats provided by boon mee less than half of americans (49 and 42%) think america can 'win' the war in iraq.

well done boon mee.

Boon Mee

How come the Lamestream Media is ignoring the latest Good News from Iraq, eh?

"The Media totally ignored the Petraeus hearings this week on progress in Iraq.

Was this by accident?... Or, was the news just too much for the American public to handle?... Do you think they'd ignore the news if violence was at a 4 year high instead of a 4 year low?"

Oh...btw, the Surge is working...heh

Gateway Pundit: MEDIA IGNORES Petraeus Hearings & Good News From Iraq

Boon Mee

More good news!

Iraqi Army dismantles Mahdi Army caches in Sadr City - The Long War Journal

stroller

I rely on non-lame-stream, objective sources like the Washington Post.

Norton

Take away here seems to be the increasing number of GOP members voicing concerns. Link contains excepts from the hearing so will try to read the entire session before forming an opinion.

Texpat

The war was won long ago (2003)

Regime change has ocurred.

Iraqis are fitting out the last puzzle pieces by themselves -- securing their cities, borders and settling into the routine of elections. Aside from being far too expensive and slow, as measured by objectives, its been quite successful.

Boon Mee

Got that right but don't tell the news to the moonbat nattering nabobs of negativism tho...

stroller

"Puzzle pieces" - nice one.

lom

Good, due time for US to leave then

Boon Mee

Well, before we went in they were fodder for Saddam's plastic/human shredding machines and gas so which is worse?

Texpat

Violence at lowest level in four years

CNN
Today

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The level of violence in Iraq has dropped within the past week to a level not seen in four years, a military spokesman said Sunday.

"Iraq-wide, we have seen a significant reduction of violence," said Rear Adm. Patrick Driscoll, spokesman for the Multi-National Forces.

"In the past week, security incidents decreased to levels we have not seen since March of 2004. These figures reflect a decrease in attacks of some 70 percent since the surge operations began in June of 2007," he said.

However, two separate blasts wounded at least 16 people in Baghdad earlier Sunday, the Interior Ministry said.

A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol went off near the Turkish Embassy in the Waziriya neighborhood in northern Baghdad on Sunday morning, the ministry official said. The blast wounded at least five people: two police officers and three bystanders.

In the second attack, a bomb inside a parked car went off as a convoy for Babil's provincial governor drove by in western Baghdad on Sunday afternoon, an Interior Ministry official said. It was not not immediately known whether Gov. Salim al-Muslimawi was part of the convoy when the bomb went off. The blast hurt 11 people, including seven members of the governor's security detail.

Driscoll also updated numbers from raids conducted in several Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad on Friday. More than 513 people of interest were initially screened by Iraqi National Police, he said, and the Iraqi Army detained 128 people. U.S. forces screened 385 people, he said, and 344 were released.

Troops from Multi-National Division -- Baghdad took 40 people into custody, he said. Five of those were wanted criminals, and the remaining 35 were detained for questioning.

Several hundred Iraqi soldiers, with U.S. troops providing security, conducted the raids in the al-Amal and Bayaa neighborhoods in southwest Baghdad and the northwest Baghdad neighborhood of Rahmaniyat al-Shula, officials said.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/25/iraq.main/index.html

Sounds like they're getting the hang of it ...

stroller

Not sure how your comment relates to my quote?

But they've been fodder for terrorist hunting US soldiers, 'security' providing contractors, AQ, Shiite and Sunni militias since 2003 - ask them which is worse.

Texpat

Stroller's idea of pre-war Iraq reminds me of the Burmese junta before international media arrived.

"We have no problem here. Everything is perfect. Watch, we're going to hold elections despite a cyclone just having ripped the ass out of half the country.

No problem here!"

Riiiiight. What a short memory we have eh troller?