As expected, today’s extraordinary front page article in the New York Times on progress in Iraq is causing aneurysms across wide swathes of the left-wing blogosphere. You might think the news that “the security improvements in most neighborhoods are real” might be cause for bipartisan celebration, or at least cautious optimism. Think again. Instead, left wing bloggers are doing everything in their power to deny or disparage the gains that our soldiers are making–with increasingly little concern for intellectual honesty of their arguments. It seems they’re determined to prove right Senator Joe Lieberman, who warned earlier this month that Democrats today are “emotionally invested in a narrative of defeat and retreat in Iraq”–regardless of the evidence. Consider this gem from Daily Kos, posted this morning in response to the Times piece.
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