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Stop the press…from letting you believe that Americans don’t care about winning in Iraq. That’s not where people are at according to this poll. Here’s a sampling of the poll questions and the results:

1. Now, generally speaking, would you say that things in the country are going in the right direction, or have they pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track?

28% RIGHT DIRECTION
67% WRONG TRACK

2. Do you approve or disapprove of the job that George W. Bush is doing as President?

21% STRONGLY APPROVE
18% SOMEWHAT APPROVE
13% SOMEWHAT DISAPPROVE
47% STRONG DISAPPROVE

Now for some questions about Iraq;

4. Which one of the following statements regarding the US involvement in Iraq do you MOST agree with…

17% The US should immediately withdraw its troops from Iraq.
32% Whether Iraq is stable or not, the US should set and hold to set a strict timetable for withdrawing troops
23% While I don’t agree that the US should be in the war, our troops should stay there and do whatever it takes to restore order until the Iraqis can govern and provide security to their country.
27% The Iraq War is the front line in the battle against terrorism and our troops should stay there and do whatever it takes to restore order until the Iraqis can govern and provide security to their country.

Here are the questions that should have Democrats worried:

7. The Democrats are going too far, too fast in pressing the President to withdraw the troops from Iraq.
[Somewhat or Strongly Agree] 53%
[Somewhat or Strongly Disagree] 46%

9. I support finishing the job in Iraq, that is, keeping the troops there until the Iraqi government can maintain control and provide security for its people.
[Somewhat or Strongly Agree] 57%
[Somewhat or Strongly Disagree]41%

10. The Iraq War is a key part of the global war on terrorism.
[Somewhat or Strongly Agree] 57%
[Somewhat or Strongly Disagree] 41%

The defeatists/pacifists in the Democrat Party are causing the party to make some poor policy decisions, decisions that might lead to their defeat in Election 2008. I wrote here that Democrats were overplaying their hand. This poll verifies my analysis.

The response to the question “The Iraq War is a key part of the global war on terrorism” should also scare Democrats. In 2004, most people polled thought that the Iraq War was an issue separated from the GWOT. Now there’s a solid majority of people who think it’s a key battle in the GWOT.

My opinion is that this proves that last November’s elections had far more to do with Republicans not acting like advocates of limited government and libertarianism than with their opposition to the war. I’ve said numerous times that the American public’s dissatisfaction with the Iraq War was because we weren’t making enough progress there.

This is the dirty little secret that nobody in the Democrat Party or their willing accomplices in the Agenda Media wants you to hear about. That’s why we should chastise people like NBC News’ Richard Engel for saying that the troops he talked with think we shouldn’t stay in Iraq. Gateway Pundit wrote this historical perspective on Engel:

** October 26, 2006 NBC News
Via NewsBusters:

NBC anchor Brian Williams claims: “He is completely unbothered by any Web site that may have problems with his reporting while he’s over in Iraq dodging bullets…He is the most agenda-less person I’ve met in our business, I think, in the past 20 years.”

Later in the article Richard Engel admits, “I think war should be illegal,” he says. “I’m basically a pacifist.” Then he continues, “One time I watched a dog carry a severed human head in its mouth. You’re smelling bodies, you’re seeing people who are so angry and insanely distraught. The people who are being killed are too old, too stupid, too poor, too young or too weak, socially or otherwise, to leave.

Brian Williams knows that Engel has a history of pacifism. By saying that Engel is “the most agenda-less person I’ve met in our business”, Williams goes too far, a trait he shares with other liberals, thereby destroying his credibility.

The moral of this story is that you aren’t wise if you trust the Agenda Media’s ‘reporting’ of the GWOT as representative of where most Americans are at. Simply put, they’re as out of touch with people as are elected Democrats.

One last question: Isn’t it more than a little ironic that NBC News picked an avowed pacifist as their war correspondent?

Technorati Tags: Defeatocrats, John Murtha, NBC News, Brian Williams, Richard Engel, Pacifism, Agenda Media, Polling, Election 2008

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 20th, 2007 at 4:07 pm and is filed under Activism, Author: Gary Gross, Election 2008, Iraq, Media, Subversives, Terrorism, W. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.