http://netwmd.com/blog/2005/11/24/171 netWMD is dedicated to understanding, promoting, and protecting democracy. Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:42:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 http://netwmd.com/blog/2005/11/24/171#comment-105 Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:04:51 +0000 http://netwmd.com/blog/2005/11/24/171#comment-105 [...] Now, one of the few remaining sane Democrats, Lieberman: Here is an ironic finding I brought back from Iraq. While U.S. public opinion polls show serious declines in support for the war and increasing pessimism about how it will end, polls conducted by Iraqis for Iraqi universities show increasing optimism. Two-thirds say they are better off than they were under Saddam, and a resounding 82% are confident their lives in Iraq will be better a year from now than they are today. What a colossal mistake it would be for America’s bipartisan political leadership to choose this moment in history to lose its will and, in the famous phrase, to seize defeat from the jaws of the coming victory. … [...] […] Now, one of the few remaining sane Democrats, Lieberman: Here is an ironic finding I brought back from Iraq. While U.S. public opinion polls show serious declines in support for the war and increasing pessimism about how it will end, polls conducted by Iraqis for Iraqi universities show increasing optimism. Two-thirds say they are better off than they were under Saddam, and a resounding 82% are confident their lives in Iraq will be better a year from now than they are today. What a colossal mistake it would be for America’s bipartisan political leadership to choose this moment in history to lose its will and, in the famous phrase, to seize defeat from the jaws of the coming victory. … […]

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