Democrats Now Telling the Truth About Iraq?

Anti-Iraq war advocates, US Democratic Senator from New York Charles Schumer (C) US Senate Majority Leader Senator Harry Reid (L), Democrat from Nevada, and Democratic Senator from Illinois Richard Durbin (R)

Democratic bumper-sticker message of a quick end to the conflict — however much it appeals to primary voters — oversimplifies the problems likely to be inherited by the next commander in chief. -- JEFF ZELENY and MARC SANTORA

Are you ready for the truth? No I don’t think you are. After all of the lies you can’t handle the truth!

You elected Democrats on their promise that they would immediately end the war. Thanks to you Democrats are the majority in both the House of Representatives and the Congress. So did they keep their promise?

No and as a matter of fact certain Democrats are hedging their bets, what I mean by that is, there are some Democrats finally telling the truth about Iraq and U.S. troops. The truth is that they really have no intention of ending the war rapidly.

Sen. Hillary Clinton says she would leave residual forces to fight terrorism and to stabilize the Kurdish region in the north.

Sen. Barak Obama says he would leave a military presence of as-yet unspecified size in Iraq to provide security for American personnel, fight terrorism and train Iraqis.

Former Sen. John Edwards would keep troops in the region to intervene in an Iraqi genocide and be prepared for military action if violence spills into other countries.

A Change of heart for Democrats? No a change of polling, Democrats who do nothing without consulting the polling numbers see that there is a slight change in Americans opinion about the war so they are running to get out in front of the wave.

One Democrat senator said U.S. troops are routing out al-Qaida in parts of Iraq. Another insisted President Bush's plan to increase troops has caused tactical momentum.

One even went so far on Wednesday as to say the argument could be made that U.S. troops are winning.

Just what is going on?

Democrats are anticipating the report due by General Petraeus on the troop surge word is that report could be positive not negative and if that is the case Democrats see negative political ramifications. It’s all political, is all about winning elections for Democrats and if that means losing the war in Iraq so be it!

"If we don't handle a shift in the facts on the ground in Iraq well, some of that advantage will erode, the Republican position will be strengthened, and we'll have more of a jump ball, at least in the presidential election” --Daniel Gerstein, Democratic political consultant

However if by some way the troop surge works, well hey a few well placed words so that a Democrat can claim that they were for the war all along. Well at least they will be able to say they were for a winning surge and that’s just politicizing the issue like Democrats usually do.

And you thought this was about principle? Remember for a political philosophy that believes in compromising everything even principles and even beliefs, positions and platforms are in continual flux.

You know, "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it." That’s the Democrats way both sides of the issue all the time.
One thing that Democrats and Liberals don’t want is the truth. That’s the only thing that can explain the inconsistencies in belief, positions and the political actions of the left.

Whom do you believe?

Is it a matter of perception or is it a matter of bias? I’ve come across two polls of the Iraqi people one which Iraqis say that their lives are better now that Saddam as been deposed and one poll which indicates that the Iraqi people feel that their lives are worst since the United States lead invasion.

In an article written in USA Today by Susan Page and Omar Salih it is reported that very dire conditions permeates the United States efforts to change Iraq.

The USA Today article cites a poll sponsored by them, ABC News, the British Broadcasting Corp., and ARD, a German TV network. This poll is reported to be face-to-face interviews with 2,212 Iraqis. What it reports is that life in Iraq is unraveling and on the whole worst than when Saddam was President. Jobs gone and schools closed. Marriages delayed and children mourned. Pretty dreadful yes?

But contrasting that bleak scenario is an article printed in the United Kingdom Times written by Marie Colvin who cites a poll by Opinion Research Business, a respected British market research company that funded its own survey of 5,019 Iraqis over the age of 18.

This poll found that most Iraqis believe that life is better for them now than under Saddam and yes there are hardships but they are optimistic that with the United States’ help their lives will see immeasurable improvement!

This poll also states that contrary to what is being told to most Westerners there is no civil war in Iraqi!

What is indeed interesting is the radical Liberal left effort and enormous amount of energy spent demonizing the Fox News Network as being biased for Conservatives. Yet Conservatives see ABC News as part of a Liberal cabal. One in which most mainstream broadcast stations, most major print news media, USA Today being one, and most cable news are apart of.

On the other hand no political group has identified the United Kingdom Times and the Opinion Research Business Corporation as having an agenda regarding American politics, however the left certainly will target them after this poll is published!

So again it is a matter of whom do you believe? After all that Americans have seen of their media in the last eight years, it’s refusal to print the Muhammad Cartoons, and it’s blatant partisan efforts to affect U.S. elections it would be hard for fair minded Americans to take the USA Today poll at face value.

That is the reality which all American media faces when fact finding and reporting the news is replace by their own agenda driven reporting which would rather see hopelessness than accomplishment because of purely partisan biased goals.

I’m thinking that the Opinion Research Business Corporation poll is worthy of our attention, the USA Today poll…um not so much!