Posted on 11/30/2007 5:39:14 AM PST by HD1200
"I think the 'surge' is working," the Democrat said in a videoconference from his Johnstown office, describing the president's decision to commit more than 20,000 additional combat troops this year. But the Iraqis "have got to take care of themselves."
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
Murtha...”I think the ‘surge’ is working,”
No thanks to this Jacka$$.
I guess hypocrite Jack Murtha read this Rasmussen poll:
November 30, 2007
More Bad News For Democrats On War
If Democrats hoped to ride a wave of discontent on the war to electoral victory in 2008, they may face a harsh awakening. New Rasmussen polling released yesterday shows a surge in confidence among American voters in the war, reaching its highest levels in two years. A small plurality now believes that Iraq will continue to improve, a far cry from just four months ago:
The latest Rasmussen Reports tracking poll finds that 47% of Americans now say the U.S. and its allies are winning the War on Terror (see crosstabs). That’s up from 43% a month ago and reflects is the highest level of confidence measured since December 2005. Over the past 35 months, confidence in the War on Terror has been higher than today only twice, in November and December 2005.
The 47% who believe the U.S. and its allies are winning is up significantly from earlier in the year. During the first nine months of 2007, the number believing that the U.S. fell as low as 33% and reached the 40% level just once. During calendar year 2006, an average of 40% believed the U.S. and its allies were winning. That average was 45% in 2005.
In what may be just as significant a finding, only 24% of voters now believe the terrorists are winning. That’s down from 30% a month ago and represents the lowest level of pessimism recorded since 2004.
The Rasmussen Reports telephone survey also found that 35% of all American voters expect things to get better in Iraq over the next six months while 32% expect the situation to get worse. That’s the first time in years that a plurality has given a positive assessment on the situation in Iraq. The recent increase in optimism is substantial. Just four months ago, in July, 49% of American voters offered a pessimistic assessment of the situation in Iraq and only 23% expected things to get better.
If there is something positive to say it is always followed by the But.... Better known as the "Butt Monkey"
Bush’s fault.
The surge must really be working well, if Murtha is saying anything positive.
The rats are scurrying under the floor.
"I think the 'surge' is working,"
Suck don't it, Jack? Once again you bet on the losing side and lost yet again.
The good people of your state sent you to Washington to protect this country not tear it down from within with claims of military failure and murder.
Retire now.
Those arseholes are going to claim credit.
Murtha is a Treasonous Rat...
Interesting, since I didn’t think Murtha could find his own ass with both hands and a flashlight!
Think ‘08.
He’s putting distance between himself and the issue so that he might successfully defend his seat in next year’s election against former William Russell a retired Army Officer.
http://www.williamrussellforcongress.com/
Murtha singing a different tune....... simply amazing.
“He said Iraqis need to duplicate that success at the national level, but the central government in Baghdad is “dysfunctional.”
And the Dims will claim credit for the success. They will say that their pressure is what caused the President to change the way in which the war was being conducted.
but the central government in Baghdad is “dysfunctional.” The IRAQ government is dysfunctional?!? What about our own? The Dims are heading for single digit approval ratings, and I am confidant they will reach them.
He is trying to quickly back track so that he can say he helped bring it about rather than striving to inspire defeat.
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