Suppose this is all made up speculation? What then? If that happens then all support for the war (and I support it) will dissapear. It’s far better to tell the truth then to lie—we don’t need any more Pat Tillman or Pentagon Paper scandals for the liberal media to throw in our face.
I take these reports of “progress” at face value. Even if these reports are not true, we should press on and put more pressure on the Iraqis.
>>Suppose this is all made up speculation?
I am not sure what you are wondering might be speculation? The NYT poll was pretty clear. Progress on the ground in Iraq? There do seem to have been indications from several sources that the progress is real. I guess we have to await Petraeus’s report for an overall assessment.
The main point of the article, though, is not to say that there has been progress, but to say that Democrats interpret progress as a bad thing.