Bret Stephens, a regular columnist for the Journal’s op-ed page, finds four American-installed leaders in Iraq who back McCain. Imagine that. He then takes these four guys’ views and extrapolates them to include all Iraqis. And while he mentions a Pew poll that shows the overwhelming majority of the world supports Sen. Barack Obama, he notes that the poll skips Iraq. And he adds that he did no polling of his own. But speaking to four guys allows him to state: “Iraq, all but alone among the nations, will be praying for a McCain victory on the first Tuesday in November.”
This column is so silly it’s barely worth mentioning, especially because there are dozens of polls that have been taken over the years that show Iraqis overwhelmingly despise the American presence and most of them want the troops out. (This is not to say that all Iraqis want the Americans to leave. I’m very aware some want the troops to stick around.)
Anyway, two can play at this game. According to a Facebook poll I found using a simple Google search, 62% of Iraqis prefer Obama as president. Now, obviously, my “research” is about as scientific at Stephens’s. Which is to say, not at all. But then, I’m not desperately trying to preach to the choir.
Sure you are. It’s just a different sermon and a different choir.
Do you know that 99 out of every 100 jihadists choose Perrier bottled spring water for their C.I.A. and Pentagon waterboarding experience? Honest!
Boy, that Magabe guy in Zimbabwe sure knows how to run an election! And not a Diebold (results guaranteed by the company) voting machine in sight. Turned out the vote and secured an overwhelming majority to boot! Ain’t democracy great? Bush, in comparison, you are just an amateur .
While you can lie with statistics, it’s always more fun to lie with fake statistics.
AS I SEE IT…
Barak Obama Win
Whites drafted to the dem ol’ cotton fields.
John McCain Win
Everyone drafted to the military.
Your choice…… Democracy, don’t you just love it?
The humanity of the man brings tears to my eye….. “As a father of little girls, I can’t imagine what it would be like to have my daughter just disappear,” Geo. W. Bush. .( lecturing Nth Korea about “disappeared” Japanese citizens. Mind you, Japan “disappeared” lots of Koreans in the 1930s/1940s)
This from a man who has no compunctions about “disappearing” other peoples’ kids