TROOPS TURN AGAINST BUSH!!! WANT TO CUT AND RUN FROM IRAQ SOON!!!

That's the reaction many on the left are having to a recent Zogby poll. The oxymoronically named liberal website Think Progress stumbles about in drunken glee while CanadianCynic laughably ponders, "Why do those troops hate America?"

As with the CBS News poll, here are the facts courtesy of NewsBusters:

While Kristof and the Democrats paint the picture that these numbers are evidence of a military ready to cut and run, they don't take into account the fact that the Pentagon's existing plan calls for troop reduction of almost half in the next 6 months and about 75% by the end of the year. So it's reasonable to assume, since the responses are consistent with the existing troop reduction plan, that the respondents were taking this plan into account when answering the question. Hardly the bombshell the Left wanted to portray.

Cue the left to argue, "That's the Pentagon's plan, not Bush's!" as if the Pentagon just does these things without the knowledge or consent of their Commander-in-Chief.

Furthermore:

In fact, further down in Zogby's report comes this little nugget:

A majority of troops (53%) said the U.S. should double both the number of troops and bombing missions in order to control the insurgency.

Wait... I thought the troops were "urging pullout"... So we're to believe they are "urging pullout" and simultaneously want to double the number troops? What sense does that make?

Indeed.

And finally, another leftist canard is put to rest (again):

Another interesting tidbit we're likely never to see in the MSM:

A large majority of the troops serving in Iraq said they were satisfied with the war provisions from Washington (adequate troop protection; body armor; Humvee plating, munitions).