Gallup: 55% Now Back U.S. Pullout from Iraq Within a Year

Editor & Publisher ^ | 08/03/2006 | E&P Staff

[LM_Guy]

NEW YORK A new Gallup poll released today revealed another upward bump in the number of Amercians who now want a complete U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq in the next 12 months.

That number now stands at 55%, with 19% supporting immediate withdrawal and another 36% wanting it done by August 2007.

"While the percentage of Americans who favor a withdrawal of all U.S. troops either now or within a year is not a supermajority, it is a majority, suggesting that the Democratic leadership is speaking to an issue that resonates with many Americans," Frank Newport, director of the Gallup Poll, writes today.

Another majority, 54%, now say that the U.S. invasion in 2003 was a "mistake."

The partisan divided remains wide on the withdrawal question, with 77% of Democrats wanting U.S. troops out in a year and only 28% of Republicans. Independents back a 12-month pullout at 56%.

Gallup polled 1,002 adult Americans at the very end of July.

[LM_Guy]

Iraq could bring the Republica Party down in November as more and more people get tired of the war and the pro Hezbollah & Irainian shiite's and the pro Al-qaeda sunni's and their civel war.

[Jeff Head]

[ClearCase_guy]

I saw we run away and lose this war -- but we should do it slowly, after we pointlessly lose a few more American lives over the course of the next year or so. [/moron]

[Names Ash Housewares]

Do we really care what non-registered voters think that are included in these polls?

Show me likely voters, and ask them shall we cave in to terrorists and surrender by pulling out too early?

Yeah, that will give a different result.

[lonster]

i would like to see the question. it's probably: "Do you want the troops home by august of next year YES OR NO??" who is going to answer no??

[traditional1]

You got that right !

You got that right !

[traditional1]

You got that right !

You got that right !

[pissant]

A load of shiite.

[Ben Mugged]

I'm sure glad this is a republic and not a democracy.

[LongsforReagan]

Call me a pessimist, but when I see "news" like this I almost believe we will never win a war again. As long as Dummies have control over the media, they wont allow it. The sheeple will listen to Katie, the NYT and Shrillary and believe what they are told.

[rightinthemiddle]

I want them to come home tomorrow, but it doesn't mean that's the right thing to do. Jeez...worthless polls with loaded questions.

[jveritas]

Let me ask this question: “Would you favor a pull out within a year and give a victory for the terrorists in Iraq”, now let us see how many Americans will support this. That is the question that President Bush and the Republican Party will ask the “real voters” during this fall elections campaign. The democrats cut and run policy will be easily exposed and defeated.

[RedEyeJack]

Agree... what was asked and how the question was framed can be as important as the percentages of the responses. This article begs that question, and, one suspects, would not like to have it scrutinized closely.

[Jeff Head]

When it really becomes apparent how serious this war is, and as a result of the left's and MSM's abetting and promoting the enemy a whole lot more Americans die here on our soil...then all of that meida BS and PC will get ashed away and we will seriously go about winning this war like we did in WW II.

I am afraid, that until that happens, you may be right...but only until then...unfortunatley.

[mass55th]

"That number now stands at 55%, with 19% supporting immediate withdrawal and another 36% wanting it done by August 2007."

Since when do they combine both numbers? They never do it when it's in the favor of the President or the Republicans.

[gondramB]

Yep.

Phrased the way they describe in the article I also, would like the troops home in a year.... if we can finish the job by then and leave Iraq with a stable friendly government able to defend itself.


I second your call of B.S.

[Smogger]

Who gives a crap. Everyone over there is a volunteer. They believe in what they are trying to do and so do I. This isn't Vietname. There is NO draft.

[Uncle Miltie]

In other news, 41% of New Yorkers think that the U.S. government knew about and allowed 9/11 to happen.

Just 'cause it a appears in a poll don't make it smart.

[LM_Guy]

Just 'cause it a appears in a poll don't make it smart.

I don't disagree but the ship is tipping in the wrong direction and the news is not getting better from Iraq.

[Raycpa]

I back a pull out today....if we were done.

[Jameison]

Not gonna happen.
No one runs a war on "polls".
We leave Iraq when we have won, and not a second earlier.

[mass55th]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but all this talk about a Civil War to me is a bunch of hooey. I believe that Saddam was waging a Civil War long before we entered into the fray. It was the Sunnis against the Shiites with Saddam sending out his goon squads to round up people to execute and bury in mass graves. It's still the Sunnis and the Shiites, but now they blow each other up, or shoot each other outright. At least the families are able to get what's left of their loved ones and know where they are buried. They didn't have that luxery under Saddam.

[edzo4]

Gallup polled 1,002 adults

55% of 1,002 is 551

so let me put it in context for you,

551 people said we should pull out now
62,040,606 voted for Bush

GET IT?

[gondramB]

>.Who gives a crap. Everyone over there is a volunteer. They believe in what they are trying to do and so do I. This isn't Vietname. There is NO draft.<<


It can matter in this sense, misleading or misguided polls could pressure those in congress with (let's put this politely) less determination to do the right thing, to do something foolish.

Although the President is commander in chief, congress is able to make the government look divided, and thus weaker to our enemies.

[LM_Guy]

The democrats cut and run policy will be easily exposed and defeated.

I hope your right, but I am starting to have my doubts that they (the republicans) will...

[DelphiUser]

This is so stupid; it all depends on how you spin the questions.

1. Would you prefer to stay in Iraq forever, stretching our troops, endangering America by not having the ability to wage war on any other front and raising taxes to pay for it.
2. Leave within the year with a Stable Government and world peace established?

Most Conservatives will not even take a poll now, I know I won’t waste my time, so you get those who support the position you are pushing (Liberals) being over represented.

The only poll that counts is on the second Tuesday of November.

[mass55th]

"Everyone over there is a volunteer. "

You notice, nobody bothers to ask the troops what they want to do. I highly doubt they'd want to leave until they can get the job done.

[himno hero]

perhaps the best may be, politically incorrect, pull out today, let them and their unlimited weapons sort their shiit out and then move back in after they have spent their resources and time.

Maybe THEN they might appreciate democracy and the efforts of the US

[LM_Guy]

GET IT?

Not really... and that was 2004....what % of the voters would vote for him on Nov 2006, I bet not as many and Kerry would win in 2006 vs 2004.

[lugsoul]

"We leave Iraq when we have won"

Can you briefly state - hopefully with concrete, on-the-ground realities rather than flowery phrases - what 'when we have won' means?

[longtermmemmory]

Push Polling BS.

WANT vs Ability

I WANT them out as soon as possible, HOWEVER it is not not possible right now.

This is about as valid as asking "do you have an opinion" and then the Mediots reporting 100% of americans have opinions on the war,"as things go bad".

[lugsoul]

"The job" that needs to be done can't be done by our troops. Our troops can do "the job" of eliminating Saddam's regime. Our troops can do "the job" of hunting terrorists. But our troops can't do "the job" of creating a peaceful, pluralistic, non-threatening Iraq. They may even be an excuse for not creating such a state.

[italianquaker]

They should also poll how many of these people refer to bin laden as binnie?

[GOP_1900AD]

Americans have a problem in our DNA - we have a genetic aversion to war and making sacrifices as a nation to win it and prepare for it. It almost resulted in Hitler and Stalin (or maybe only one of them) ruling the world. We pulled one out of the fire that time. Was it our last hurrah?

[Jameison]

"Can you briefly state - hopefully with concrete, on-the-ground realities rather than flowery phrases - what 'when we have won' means?"

What is it about "have won" don't you understand again?
And exactly what is flowery about "have won"?
Did we need you to tell us when we had won in WWI, WWII, the war of independence , civil war and other wars we have fought?

[GOP_1900AD]

It's even worse, it's in our DNA. At the end of the day, we are the Hobbits. We need a Gandalf.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

POLLS!? POLLS ARE FOR STRIPPERS!

[edzo4]

i'll explain it for you then

gallup pretending that the opinion of 1,002 adults represents the entire population is BS

and if you dumbocrats want to win the election in 2006 and 2008 you should stop worrying about how many votes bush would get, he isn't running.

[Antoninus]

If you're scared, get a dog and a pair of Depends.

But for Heaven's sake, stop posting on FR until you take remedial spelling 101--or at least until someone shows you where the spell-checker is on the posting screen.

[Pox]

BS. Your 'analysis' couldn't be further from reality, IMO. I do not trust polls at all and polls like this one whose entire purpose is geared toward a specific result that those who commissioned the poll were seeking are wholly without merit, IMO.

Fortunately, 1,000 peopled polled are certainly not precisely representing 300 million Americans, IMO.

[Candor7]

Like I've said many times, polls today merely measure the effectiveness of Liberal Socialist Wingnut MSM propaganda. The poll results are propaganda themselves.

Poll people who do not have televisions in their homes and watch the differerence.

[MikeA]

55% Democrats polled again???

[My2Cents]

The failure here is the failure of the Bush Administration to continue to make the case for why we're in Iraq, and why we need to see the effort through. Bush typically allows support for his Iraq policy to erode until it's dangerously low, then he'll make a series of speeches about it, stopping the hemmorage of support and reversing public opinion, but then will go for months without talking in a major way about the effort and progress there, the result being that public support again collapses.

The public relations/communications effort of this White House is one of the worst ever, and I can't figure out why that's the case.

[mplsconservative]

55% Democrats polled again???

Probably more like 60%. These polls are just a load of biased cr*p.

[edzo4]

I disagree the administration has said over and over that this would be a long drawn out battle.
the president does not control the media

which by the way have from day one called iraq a mistake and a quaqmire and act like the biggest threat that we face is bush listening to your phone call or seeing what book you took out of the libray and CO2

[finnman69]

It's going to take the shock of an entire city being destroyed somewhere in th world to show people how serious is the threat of islamic terroism.

[middie]

We ''won'' the war. That was the easy part. It has been the the major FUBAR decisions of the administration that has screwed-up what could have, and should have, been a more orderly peace. The list of military mistakes made by non-military people, GW, Rumsfeld, Fief and the other DOD civilians, is long enough to be the underlying cause of the current situation. What exists now was predicted by former officers who pointed out that the JCS was a sinecure for a bevy of ''yes men''generals who shivered in their shoes at the thought of suggesting to Rumsfeld that he might be making an error during the early post-Sadaam days.

The clearest illustration of the mess seen by senior officers was that seven recently retired 3 & 4 star generals turned down an invitation the be Army Cheif of Staff until finally Gen. Shoomaker accepted. He was the eighth invitee to the ball. Those other seven didn't want to be thrown that ball of glue with Rumsfeld's mess stuck to it.

We had a window of opportunity to secure Iraq but Rumsfeld stood by and quipped that memorable axiom that sometimes democracy is messy - among others that avoided the scene on the ground.

There is no one other than the president and his people who are responsible for the current intractable situation, trying to casually pass it off to any previous administration is an admission of culpability and an exercise in futility.

[mewzilla]

I'll bet most of the people polled couldn't find Iraq on a map.

[capitalist229]

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