Posted on 03/18/2007 9:44:11 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
A battle abroad and at home
President Bush bucked public opinion and advice from the Iraq Study Group when he ordered 21,500 more U.S. combat troops to Iraq as part of his plan to reverse the deteriorating course of the war.
The idea was to secure Baghdad and tamp down sectarian violence, allowing reconstruction to proceed and, eventually, Iraqi security troops to take over.
Critics, including many retired high-ranking Army officers, say more troops aren't the answer. Other experts say more forces will help only if the deployment is coupled with a political plan that forces compromises by Iraq's warring Shiite and Sunni Muslims on how to distribute oil revenue and other tough questions, compromises they've long been unwilling to make.
– Warren P. Strobel
McClatchy Newspapers
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
Pessimism 'growing among Iraqis'
However today the TimesOnline of the UK had a much larger poll that said things were getting better:
Iraqis: life is getting better
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MOST Iraqis believe life is better for them now than it was under Saddam Hussein, according to a British opinion poll published today.
The survey of more than 5,000 Iraqis found the majority optimistic despite their suffering in sectarian violence since the American-led invasion four years ago this week.
One in four Iraqis has had a family member murdered, says the poll by Opinion Research Business. In Baghdad, the capital, one in four has had a relative kidnapped and one in three said members of their family had fled abroad. But when asked whether they preferred life under Saddam, the dictator who was executed last December, or under Nouri al-Maliki, the prime minister, most replied that things were better for them today.
Only 27% think there is a civil war in Iraq, compared with 61% who do not, according to the survey carried out last month.
fyi
Haha! The mainstream media can take a flying leap. ;-D
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a documentary explaining how many Iraqi tribal leaders have turned on Al Qaeda. ( and they are Sunnis in Anbar province....)
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The Times of London conducted a major poll of Iraqis to determine their state of mind a month after the beginning of the surge, and it finds the Iraqis rather optimistic. Four hundred pollsters went door to door to speak to over 5,000 Iraqi adults, and found that almost a majority of them preferred life now under the democracy of Nouri al-Maliki rather than the oppression of Saddam Hussein:
"Four hundred pollsters went door to door to speak to over 5,000 Iraqi adults"...
...and only five or six of the pollsters were later found beheaded. :'D
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...and only five or six of the pollsters turned out to be al-Qaeda terrorists out to massacre everyone in the house.
Our local home town....used to be conservative Newspaper.....Bastards.....
If THEY fail in their Perception Management, justice awaits them.
Perception management consists of actions to convey and/or deny selected information and indicators to target audiences [i.e., us] to influence their emotions, motives, and objective reasoning; and to intelligence systems and leaders at all levels to influence official estimates, ultimately resulting in behaviors and official actions favorable to the originator’s objectives. In various ways, perception management combines truth projection, operations security, cover, deception, and psychological operations (JP 3-13).
The MSM targets friendly forces and interests with perception management activities, such as propaganda and deception, to undermine our will to fight or resist.
WARREN P. STROBEL
Warren P. Strobel is a senior editor at U.S. News & World Report, responsible for covering national security and intelligence. He joined the magazine in October 1998.
For three years before that, Mr. Strobel was White House correspondent for The Washington Times, covering the Clinton White House and traveling extensively with the president domestically and abroad. From September 1994 through September 1995, Mr. Strobel was a Jennings Randolph Peace Fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based United States Institute of Peace. At the Institute, he conducted research for a book on how the U.S. news media report on modern peace operations and the media's effect on American foreign policy and public opinion...
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itps/0300/ijpe/pj51bios.htm
I pray that the American MSM and the BBC receive the Justice they so richly deserve...and DIE....
Thanks! ...I just sent that article you linked to 'a few close friends'.
It is simple. and most people understand what I am talking about when I say this.
The Democrats and the Main Stream Media are simply "vietnaming" our troops for political gain.
Why do you think the Dems are not really pushing as hard to cut the funding as seriously as we all thought they would. Of course they passed some non binding stuff and have put some bills up for vote just to appease their anti war base. But the reality is that the Democrats want us to continue to have trouble in Iraq. The more US soldiers that die in Iraq, the greater the chance that they get elected in 2008.
so... they dont really want to end the war. they just want to undermine it all the way to the bank for more power. Power, power, power. They have the power to cut funding, but they are wanting to keep it going for even more power. They are so obsessed with Bush hatred and power.
Well thought out.
The L/MSM will find it increasingly difficult to keep up their smoke screens, as Baghdad and the other provinces rid their lands of AQIR and the numereous religious/resitance/terrorist groups. Of course there are still a lot of zealot dopes out there that think blowing themselves up along with a few civilians or foreign forces, will get them some favor from allah. They sure are in for a bitter surprise in the afterlife.
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