If you read nothing else today, make sure to read Hugh Hewitt’s piece on The Left and Good News From Iraq.
Hugh furthers what I wrote about in my previous post on Why Does the Left Hate Good News From Iraq?
An excerpt from Hugh:
The left doesn’t want good news out of Iraq, and it certainly doesn’t want the American public supporting the war effort. In a story that James Taranto noted last week, the New York Times asked in its most recent poll a recurring question that they also asked in past polls: “Looking back, do you think the United States did the right thing in taking military action against Iraq, or should the United States have stayed out?†When asked the same question in May, the 35% of the public said yes, 61% said no. This time around, 42% said yes and 54% said no, narrowing the percentage of people who consider it a mistake to invade Iraq vs. those who thin it was the right thing to do from 26% to 12%.
The Times found this result so “counter-intuitive†that they re-polled the question. Much to the paper’s surprise/horror, they got the same result. It’s odd that the Times settled on the word “counter-intuitive†to describe the polls’ results. With the situation improving in Iraq and the war effort having dramatically improved, why would you be shocked that the public feels a bit better about the war unless you’ve come to adopt your own echo-chamber rhetoric as gospel truth?
The left and other anti-war figures like Andrew Sullivan have a lot invested in this war failing and failing miserably. They have a lot invested emotionally, intellectually and most of all politically. That’s why they routinely dismiss or ignore good news out of Iraq and hype bad or even potentially fabricated news like the Thomas Diarists.
I’d like to hear someone seriously attempt to rebut or spin this.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070731/pl_nm/usa_iraq1_dc
That’s all I need to read to say, “fuck, no”.
Left by John Jarzemsky on July 31st, 2007 at 4:59 pm