Here’s the DSCC’s potent new ad hitting Senator Norm Coleman:
And here’s Chris Cillizza’s insightful commentary:
Why does the ad work? Because it uses Coleman’s own words on the war to make the case that he is out of step with the people of Minnesota — where anti-war sentiment is as strong as anywhere in the country with the possible exception of New Hampshire. And, it successfully links Coleman to President Bush, whose approval rating in Minnesota is somewhere in the used car dealer/journalist range.
Agreed.
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We’ve already seen ads using this video… by the way… we are winning in Iraq. Iraq is just not as potent an issue as two years ago.
Define winning.
Winning:
• Most importantly, casualty rates have plummeted
• Stability has been established, mostly
• We are turning over providences to the Iraqis
• Benchmarks are being made
• Oil production is strong (which they should be using for their own reconstruction)
• We are beginning to pull troops out, or at least transitioning to Afghanistan, where they’re needed
• Iraqis fell safe and think things are going better
• We are going in the right direction, as opposed to two years ago when things were terrible
We should not have ever gone into Iraq, but we did, so we need to complete the job. The costs of this war have been great, but we cannot give up when the finish line is in sight.
Thanks for defining winning. I haven’t seen that done before. How far out is that finish line in terms of time and $? If you haven’t noticed we have a huge deficit and many unmet needs here in healthcare, energy, education, retirement security, economic stimulus/jobs etc. Also what about Afghanistan where we are not winning? Maybe Iraqi leaders need more pressure to resolve their issues and find away for different groups to coexist.
Patrick,
We are turning over provinces, not providences. Providences would be the “protection of a deity”. I know the Republicans think that God is a Republican and likes this war, but the Republicans cannot give the Iraqis “providences”.
Bottom line is Iraqis want us out. We should therefore get out.
I aprreciate your honesty about not needing to have gone in in the first place. Alec
Oh, thank you for correcting me on “providences.” I actually did mean provinces.
Yes, the Iraqis want us out, but I don’t think that we are at the point that they can sustain themselves if we pull out.
Nouri al-Maliki will be dead in a week if we pull out now. We need to be as careful getting out of Iraq as we were careless getting in, as Obama says.
I do not want to have to go back into Iraq because things are falling apart… and that will happen if we aren’t careful.
Two years ago, the Iraqis may not have liked us, but they did not want us to leave. THat is because they knew what would happen if we left. The fact that the Iraqis think we should now go is a testament to how far we have come since 2006.