Lol preventing a civil war!

If I were you, I’d read the report. It’s real, not naive; we still want our troops out of Iraq as soon as possible. It’s just that a) possible does not mean tomorrow, or today; b) we don’t share in outright pathological hatred of Bush and all-too-often hatred of anything that could constitute a US success, particularly if it makes the USA look not only good, but better than other nations.

If anything, Pew is liberal (even when it comes to producing this report), but it produces high-quality reports and I examine these frequently.

I’ll squawk all I want about Bush being bad, he is. He’s blatantly using our soldiers lives to look after the interests of his biggest donors. Trillions of dollars and thousands of lives for what? The mainstream should get zero relief. The billion dollar fortress embassy has been under construction for years which means they’ve been planning this for years. The fact poor kids keep volunteering for this crap amazes me.

[sigh]

While the fringe goes crazy, the mainstream gets some relief.

“For the first time in a long time, nearly half of Americans express positive opinions about the situation in Iraq. A growing number says the U.S. war effort is going well, while greater percentages also believe the United States is making progress in reducing the number of Iraqi casualties, defeating the insurgents and preventing a civil war in Iraq.”

(Pew)

Afghanistan was nothing more than a bait and switch to take us to Iraq.