Somebody's becoming "unhinged from reality," and it's not the President

"During Iraqi Prime Minister Allawi's Rose Garden appearance Thursday, President Bush referred to public-opinion polls in Iraq to make a point about how things are going," writes James Robbins on NRO today. "'I saw a poll that said the right track/wrong track in Iraq was better than here in America,' he said, prompting Kerry spokesman Joe Lockhart to claim that the President had become 'unhinged from reality.'

"I found Lockhart's comment odd. It strikes me that polling data are a better reflection of conditions on the ground in Iraq than, say, Democratic talking points. Lately I have been looking over the results of two Iraq polls released in July and August, conducted by the International Republican Institute (IRI) and the Independent Institute for Administrative and Civil Society Studies (IIACCS). They are scientifically conducted polls with large sample sizes and low margins of error. The results are extremely detailed, and fascinating reading."

Indeed, they are. Also the remainder of the Robbins piece.

Somebody needs to ask Lockhart what he and his boss (Kerry, that is...) know that 25 million Iraqis do not.