Sunday Link-apalooza



It is grey and drizzly, and a cold wind is blowing...much like the GOPs near term prospects.

So here are a bunch of good links for staying inside and reading.....

- The "new" chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, cuddly Carl Levin, will push a 'cut & run' policy in Iraq. The article also includes two interesting side notes, both of which are no doubt added by Reuters to denegrate the Bush Administration. First, stuck in the middle of the story, entirely without context, is the sentance "A suicide bomber killed 35 people at a police recruiting center in Iraq...." Ironically this is but a small example of what will happen in Iraq if Levin's policy comes to pass. Second, we find the typical liberal meme that "More than 2,800 American troops have been killed in Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion...." A quick fact check by editors would find that not all of those killed were in Iraq., and of those who were, not all were killed in combat. But I guess their version has more impact towards their (Reuter's) intended goal.

- Another liberal meme is that now that the Dems are in charge, we will finally have some oversight over Bush's illegal war. Protein Wisdom does a quick fact check (yes, another one), and finds that it is claims that are lacking needed oversight....

- Westhawk takes a look at what is working best in Iraq. Offense or Defense ?

- Bloggers Powerline and Captain's Quarters have been discussing the Democrats possible guilt by association based on favorable reviews of their newfound majority by terrorists and other enemies....

- At the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Walid Phares explores what was actually said by al Qaeda about the results of the election.

- Lastly, one more emerging meme is that the election was a result of the American public 'disappointment' over the War in Iraq. While that statement is true, most Dems are taking that too mean that Americans want to follow Carl Levin's policy model, which would be a incorrect assumption. Two different polls show that while American's are disappointed with the war, it is not because they feel we should be there, it is because they feel we should be doing more to win. A Newsweek poll finds that Americans "expressed concerns that Democrats might seek to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq too quickly or hamper the administration's efforts to combat terrorism". An second earlier NYT poll found that the idea that we should send more troops to finish the job out polled pulling out by 15%. I have no link to the poll, but you can listen to analysis from Democrat pollster Pat Cadell on the Bill Bennett show.

UPDATE: More on the parallels "between the lefty blogosphere and Al Qaeda" from LGF.

Posted: Sun - November 12, 2006 at 05:48 PM          

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