The PR Offensive
Sep 10th, 2007 at 6:24 am by Susie
[UPDATE: More on this crappy poll from Big Tent Democrat.]
Looks like all that hard work paid off! The American public is now convinced that Petraeus is somehow independent of the Bush administration:
Americans trust military commanders far more than the Bush administration or Congress to bring the war in Iraq to a successful end, and while most favor a withdrawal of American troops beginning next year, they suggested they were open to doing so at a measured pace, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.
On the eve of what is sure to be a contentious debate on Iraq, the results underscored the benefits to the White House of entrusting the top American commander in Iraq, Gen. David H. Petraeus, to make the case that an increase in American forces this year had been successful enough to continue into next year.
Plus, they’re still getting their money’s worth out of this one:
The findings suggested that both parties were paying a price for the way they have handled the war. Six in 10 Americans said in the poll that administration officials deliberately misled the public in making a case for the war; 33 percent of all Americans, including 40 percent of Republicans and 27 percent of Democrats, say Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
Meanwhile, the Boston Globe buries the poll results deep in their Page 1A story, and include another one with a much more realistic bent:
But the two polls released yesterday suggest that the administration still faces an uphill battle convincing Americans that Iraq can still become a success. According to the ABC/Washington Post poll, 58 percent of respondents said they felt the US surge had no impact on the situation there, while 12 percent said they felt it had made things worse. Fifty-three percent of those polled said they believed that Petraeus would present an assessment that is more positive than the reality on the ground. Only 39 percent thought he would portray the situation honestly.
you people are really retarded aren’t you? i’m almost ashamed to call myself an American when i know i’m lumped in with the rest of you brain dead superPussies!
“hey, i have an idea, lets goto the american public and ask them what they believe about the iraq war and then print their responses as if it were an accurate picture of the status in iraq and treat it as gospel…”
your polls are senseless and useless. 99.9999999% of the american people have ZERO IDEA what is really going on in iraq and the war on terror. the reason why can be contributed to many things but to assume a poll taken by the same people will produce reliable, reality focused answers is idiotic.
why don’t you retarded retards goto iraq and fight with the soldiers to see exactly what is going on in reality over there…..better yet, goto iraq and run your same polls on every soldier you can….I GUARANTEE YOUR NUMBERS WILL BE MORE ACCURATE AND WILL REFLECT A TOTAL OPPOSITE OF THE RESPONSES YOU GET FROM RETARDS 8000 MILES AWAY THAT HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS REALLY HAPPENING IN THAT PART OF THE WORLD.
just because it was covered by news agencies does not make it fact, truth, accurate or even un-biased. IN FACT MOST OF THE MEDIA REPORTS ARE VERY BIASED as you can see in the bashing that goes on….last i heard…bashing was not news…it was either done because the bashers are scared pussies, as in most of you out there, or because the media just couldn’t come up with a good point of view of their own.
i challenge any one of you ‘conspiracy theorist, impeach peddling, too chicken to fight but will bitch like a little baby when others have too, would let a bomb drop on their house before they decided it was a good idea to prevent such a disaster by being on the offensive against those that will stop at nothing to do such an act, pussies’ to goto iraq and do a REAL POLL of the people that KNOW WHAT’S HAPPENING IN IRAQ and then show the results.
again, I GUARANTEE NONE OF YOU YELLOW BELLY WANNAB NUKE RECEPTORS WILL NOT DARE TO TAKE UP MY CHALLENGE.
YOU’RE PATHETIC LITTLE BITCHES THAT DON’T DESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIVE IN A COUNTRY THAT GOES ABOVE AND BEYOND TO PROTECT EVERY FREEDOM YOU TAKE FOR GRANTED.
go back to your meaningless lives and leave the real world work to those of us that can do it.
you’re nothing but drone, lonely, lifeless, useless oxygen thieves.
you should probably go out and put together your own country so you can really see what it takes to keep your citizens safe, prosperous and in the pursuit of happieness. (that could never happen, you have no spine and what is in it’s place is a yellow streak that wobbles like jello when a tough task is required by you!)
GO BUSH…YOU’VE DONE AN EXCELLENT JOB UP TO THIS POINT; NO NEED TO STOP NOW….I’M GLAD YOU DON’T LET THE WEAK PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY DETER YOUR FOCUS ON ACCOMPLISHING WHAT YOU SET OUT TO GET DONE!
G.W.B…YOU ARE WITHOUT A DOUBT ONE OF THE STRONGEST POLITICAL FIGURES TO GRACE THIS COUNTRIES TOP POST IN A VERY LONG TIME….I’D SAY SINCE TRUMAN.
You’re a government drone who’s reading blogs while you’re supposed to be working. Those are our tax dollars you’re wasting.