Heh. He said a mouthful.
When the media is trying to paint a doom/gloom picture of huge throngs of people who "have turned decisively against the war", but are forced to acknowledge that the evidence for this is all in polls and not in reality (let alone active protests, etc.), they almost give the game away.
In short, the polls are leading and the public is coached, regualarly, day after day, by the media's drumbeat on what they are supposed to say.
He urged Americans to brace for “more fighting and sacrifice.” That is not what was being predicted three years ago.
Sure it was. The person who wrote this is ignorant or a liar.
I'm so sick of being lied to by propaganda hacks.
I just finished talking to a close friend of mine who's a dyed-in-the-wool Dem. The occasion was the death of one his ex-wives and I called to express my sympathy. We were talking about various non-political things when he launched into a diatribe about/against the war in Iraq. I heard all the dishonest arguments that Dems have been spewing about how Hussein was no threat, more Iraqis have died since the war than all the years Hussein was ruler blah blah blah. My friend went from lib talking point to lib talking point.
When I tried to pin him down on all his "facts", he would quickly change topics and he finally announced that we shouldn't talk politics. He had been doing most of the talking, and butted in every time I started a counter argument.
We're still close friends, but all he reads and hears is lib propaganda. He thinks Al Franken is a great politcal analyst. He asked me why I wasn't still a Dem. (I changed parties about ten years ago). I answered because I finally started getting facts about how things actually were and not lib propaganda. We eventually changed topics from politics to personal matters.
You know, the administration was NOT prepared for this kind of resistance.
The longer this goes on, the more damgaed Bush will be.
That was part of the deal and I think everyone understood that.
The American people, for the most part, have shown quite a bit of patience. I think it's up to the administration to state it's case. Are they doing it effectively?
I agree. The last sentence is a blatant and flagrant lie!!