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Poll Shows Troops in Support of War & Bush [71% Approve of Bush]
Military Times | January 3, 2005

Posted on 12/26/2004 8:25:02 PM PST by West Coast Conservative

Do you approve or disapprove of the way George W. Bush is handling the situation with Iraq?

Approve: 63%
Disapprove: 20%
No opinion: 8%
Decline to answer: 9%

Do you approve or disapprove of the way George W. Bush is handling his job as president?

Approve: 71%
Disapprove: 16%
No opinion: 8%
Decline to answer: 9%

Should the United States have gone to war in Iraq?

Yes: 60%
No: 21%
No opinion: 8%
Decline to answer: 9%


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bush; kewl; military; militaryvote; poll; wariniraq
Full story and poll results at Military Times. I couldn't post it here because of copyright restrictions.
1 posted on 12/26/2004 8:25:03 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
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To: West Coast Conservative

And the NYT will carry this story? NOT!


2 posted on 12/26/2004 8:30:01 PM PST by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: lexington minuteman 1775

They will...but they will interview the 20% who feel the Iraq war was wrong and that will be their headline/story!!


3 posted on 12/26/2004 8:35:48 PM PST by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Gee, I'm shocked.

The troops that the most "sensitive" among us claim to represent the best interets of, are actually in support of the actions AND President the Dems/Libs/isolationists are trying to undermine!

Imagine that.

The complainers, naysayers, and doubters can shove it. The troops get it and their opinion means a damn bit more to me than anyone else's.

As to the remainder that constitute the anti-war/anti-American crowd..immigrate to France.


4 posted on 12/26/2004 8:46:50 PM PST by Soul Seeker
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To: West Coast Conservative
Any Lib would have you believe this is a poll of the 'victims'.

It makes me fill with rage when the left portrays the fallen soldiers as victims rather than than the heros that they are.
5 posted on 12/26/2004 8:49:52 PM PST by KoRn
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To: West Coast Conservative

Someone needs to tell Reva Rassmussen: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308825/posts


6 posted on 12/26/2004 9:05:57 PM PST by The Loan Arranger (The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

ooooo a definately Iraq war ping here


7 posted on 12/26/2004 9:45:37 PM PST by Ksnavely
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To: West Coast Conservative
I noticed the DU version of this news:

I still can not stop laughing after reading post # 17 on the DU thread!!!

Democratic Underground Forums - Poll shows troops in support of war

ROTFLMAO

8 posted on 12/26/2004 11:46:03 PM PST by DBeers
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To: DBeers

I'm too late. Post #17 was deleted.


9 posted on 12/27/2004 2:29:14 AM PST by West Coast Conservative
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To: West Coast Conservative
Full story and poll results at Military Times. I couldn't post it here because of copyright restrictions.

To be fair, the poll was conducted among subscribers to Military times, and was done via mailed out surveys, only a small number of which were returned, so I'm not sure this poll provides any more useful data than the typical web-site poll.

10 posted on 12/27/2004 9:13:52 AM PST by 1LongTimeLurker
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To: DBeers

What did it say?


11 posted on 12/27/2004 9:15:57 AM PST by bushfamfan
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To: West Coast Conservative; bushfamfan

Post #17 was made in reference to a kerry photo in post #2 which was also deleted. Without the picture the comment would be almost meaningless... I will see if I can find a copy of the photo and recreate on this thread...


12 posted on 12/27/2004 12:01:13 PM PST by DBeers
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To: 1LongTimeLurker; All
To be fair

To be fair to who?

13 posted on 12/27/2004 12:25:51 PM PST by DBeers
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To: DBeers
To be fair to who?

Poor choice of words on my part, I should have said, to be "objective". The methodology used by this poll provides about as much insight into the views of U.S. military members as does your typical web poll, it is based on an extremely small self-selected sample.

14 posted on 12/27/2004 12:51:14 PM PST by 1LongTimeLurker
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To: 1LongTimeLurker

-agreed... the poll is not conclusive either way as it does not observe statistical sampling requirements


15 posted on 12/27/2004 2:16:33 PM PST by DBeers
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To: West Coast Conservative

bump


16 posted on 12/27/2004 2:18:41 PM PST by VOA
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