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Posted at 12:52pm on Mar. 18, 2008 The Iraq Democrats Continue To Deny

butbutbut...they CAN'T be getting better...NOT YET!!!

By haystack

Via Real Clear Politics we learn that Iraqis, in steadily increasing numbers, are seeing "improved security and economic conditions" and these sentiments "have reversed Iraqis’ spiral of despair." To be sure, there are still many grave and serious problems ahead for them, but overall they are becoming more optimistic about their futures.

This is striking news when you consider the steady drumbeat from Democrats, including "he and she who would be President," who insist that the war is lost (one even suggesting it should never have been waged despite the multitude of UN Security Council Resolutions that indicated to the contrary) and that the surge was unsuccessful, and who suggest the only way Iraq will improve is by our quick exit (leaving them to twist in the wind). Solely based on this twisted and cynical belief that a successful ascension to power lies (somehow) in the abandonment of an entire country, Democrats will deny ANY news from the ground in Iraq that might contradict their game plan...including this:

Fifty-five percent of Iraqis say things in their own lives are going well, well up from 39 percent as recently as August. More, 62 percent, rate local security positively, up 19 points. And the number who expect conditions nationally to improve in the year ahead has doubled, to 46 percent in this new national poll by ABC News, the BBC, ARD German TV and the Japanese broadcaster NHK.

Without directly crediting the surge in U.S. forces, fewer report security as the main problem in their own lives – 25 percent, nearly half its peak last spring. Forty-six percent say local security has improved in the past six months, nearly double last summer’s level.

The number of Iraqis who feel entirely unsafe in their own area has dropped by two thirds, to 10 percent. And with Sunni Arab buy-in, U.S.-funded Awakening Councils, created to provide local security, are more popular than the Iraqi government itself.

Even more striking is the halt in worsening views. In August, Iraqis by 61-11 percent said security in the country had gotten worse, not better, in the previous six months. Today, by 36-26 percent, more say security has improved. The new positive margin is not large. But the 35-point drop in views that security is worsening is the single largest change in this poll.

To be fair, there is no reason to hype this report into something it is NOT. Problems abound in Iraq, on almost every level, but problems abound in every other country around the world, too. We have a few problems right here at home, in fact, that in many ways might be considered equal to some of those being endured by every-day Iraqis themselves. Unemployment, inadequate healthcare, crumbling infrastructure, and the like notwithstanding.

More reality checks for the Left, below the fold...

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