But Jessica, what about the people we've liberated?

In a Saturday post elegantly headlined, "You know you're on the wrong side when Osama bin Laden is rooting for the same thing you are", Jessica McBride types:

bin Laden wants us to leave Iraq.
Feingold wants us to leave Iraq.

Go figure.

She left out another group of people that want us out of Iraq. That'd be the Iraqis. Indeed, 87% of Iraqis want a timetable for the U.S. to leave. Something that Bush will never do because he doesn't want to admit the rest of the world was right until we accomplish the mission we set out to accomplish. Which is tough because no one knows what it looks like.

As Ezra Klein at Tapped put it:

The Bush administration is actively working against the wishes of the elected Iraqi government and the expressed preferences of the American public to pursue an indefinite occupation of Iraq. This is a perpetual deployment on behalf of no stated goals, no wish-list of accomplishments, and no obvious purpose. I can't say whether we want the military bases, the oil, the regional foothold, or anything else; but invading a country, overthrowing their government, and then remaining against the wishes of the elected successors is the very definition of an occupying power, and in any international context, the neocons would be quick to define it as a hostile occupying power. Folks sometimes wonder why we don't have an exit strategy. The answer, now obvious, is because we don't want one.

How this helps our fight against al Qaeda is beyond the Brawler. But one suspects Jessica McBride is more concerned with polishing the image of George Bush than anything else.

Comments

[scott]

There's another group that wants us out of Iraq: our indomitable troops. 72% of them think we should pull out this year. There was a Zogby poll of them back in February of 06 that said so.

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Another important point -- Jessica McBride, as usual, lied about about half her point. Osama doesn't actually want the U.S.A. out of Iraq, he wanted the U.S. to invade, and he wants to keep fighting a war there. So, her whole premise is a load of shit.