Posted on 10/30/2004 12:00:06 PM PDT by The Real Indepman
If every American knew the true success we are having in Iraq, Kerry would be at about 20% {the lunatic fringe]. Please see the update on Iraq and share it with a friend...
The lunatic Dim fringe is bigger than 20%.
Sadly, I couldn't agree with you more. Just to remind folks - the IQ level of the U.S. is mirrored in our electorate.
THE BOTTOM HALF OF THE I.Q. CURVE REPRESENTS THE LOONEY LEFT.
What percent do you think it is? I was using the 80/20 rule, but I'm curious as to your basis of thinking it is higher than 20%...
Well it is rare that the Dim vote no matter how loony the candidate drops below 40%. So I would guess 38% to 40% are either lunatic fringe or American hating Dims.
Using the same ferver the MSM uses to report bad Iraqi news, the Iraqi press could report on every US murder, robbery, rape, and the occasional serial killer, sniper, and bombing, and easily convince at least 50% of the Iraqi population that the US was going down the tubes in a quagmire.
I'm certain in the socialist EU they do exactly that!
Just posted a summary of this report on my blog -
http://freedomstruth.blogspot.com
An Iraq Status Update
Iraq Weekly Update from Dept of State:
* Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI) is moving ahead with preparations for the January 2005 Iraqi election. Voter registration begins November 1.
* Iraq removed from the state sponsor of terror list.
* One year anniversary of the New Iraqi Dinar. Currency is stable.
* Approximately 40% of Iraqis served with potable water and project underway to increase that. 648,000 cubit feet of water treatment capacity under construction. USAID sewer repair project in Basrah on wastewater treatment completed, using 330 local Iraqis on the project.
* Electricity for most of country is on 9-16 hours per day. Above 16 hours/day for Baghdad. 100,000 MWH production avg in last 7 days.
* $13 BILLION in oil export revenue for Iraq so far this year. This compares with $5 BILLION last year.
* Crude oil production is at the 2.5 MBPD target.
* Iraq Telecom and Postal commission adding phone lines. In Baghdad, reactivated and added switches, adding 213,000 lines.
* Polio vaccination campaign: 70% of the 4.7 million children to be reached had been vaccinated. Part of the global effort to end polio world-wide.
* Project to build 12 primary health care facilities underway.
* 107,000 trained police, army and national guard. (Ed note: So much for Kerry's phony claims last month that there were only 5,000 trained forces. Allawi was accurate, Kerry was inaccurate.)
* Iraqi Relief and Reconstruction Fund Status. The fund is $18 billion apportioned. Committed: $14.8 billion; Obligated: $10 billion; Disbursed: $3.4 billion.
Thank YOU you are awesome! Very much appreciated...
I agree with you. The fringe has been growing, thanks to a majority of leftist professors at about 95% of American colleges. Fortunately, many of these students later on realize the reality of life doesn't support the utopian nonsense of the left, so they eventually become moderates or even conservative, but it takes a while for the maturing to take hold.
Actually, I am a college prof and other than certain elite schools, college students reflect society. So I don't really see much influence of leftist college profs in the arts and humanities. The one exception is "environmentalism" is pounded into them from 1st grade and that is taken as a given by many young people.
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