The third major poll of Iraqis shows that not only are a majority of Iraqis feeling better off and optimistic, but that these feelings have been doing little but improve over the last year, even as casualties have declined and the resistance element has increasingly taken to attacking civilian Iraqis--which only hurts the resistance in the long run, as Iraqis rally around the new, free government that we're helping them develop.

Oh yes, and the ongoing, dwindling resistance--a resistance that any thoughtful person expected to be there, and that the President told us would be there when he gave that speech on the aircraft carrier, and has repeated in every speech since then--is restricted to a small fraction fo the country.

This is one of so many reasons why I get sick of war wobblers who freak out every time there's a setback. These folks would have betrayed both Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman during our nation's darkest hours of World War II and Korea, and are so ignorant of military history that they're barely worth talking to. I'm done being mad at them, but I won't stop pointing out the truth:

It takes an incredibly shallow person to point to every setback in a war effort as proof that our leaders are weak or that we never should have gone in the first place. Either that or an ignorance of military history so profound that it's genuinely mind-boggling.

I don't know what's worse: those whose partisanship exceeds their patriotism, or the wobblers who claimed they supported the war but then turned into sissy-mary crybabies when they realized that victory wouldn't come overnight and that wars often take many years to prosecute.

(Thanks for the link, Casey.)