Posted on 12/12/2006 7:16:13 AM PST by kristinn
In a new Post-ABC News poll, seven in 10 Americans disapprove of the way the president is handling the situation in Iraq -- the highest percentage since the March 2003 invasion. Six in 10 say the war was not worth fighting.
While both gauges on the war have been negative since late 2004, Bush's approval rating on Iraq has deteriorated further since early October, likely weakened by recent high-profile criticisms of the administration's Iraq policy.
The bleak appraisals of the war include the release last week of the much-anticipated report from the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan government advisory panel, which described conditions in Iraq as "grave and deteriorating."
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In this poll, 36 percent approve of how Bush is handling his job, which is the second lowest percentage in Post-ABC polls since Bush took office in 2001; 62 percent disapprove.
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While Bush enjoys significant support among Republicans (77 percent approve), just three in 10 independents, and three in 10 moderates, approve of his job performance. Democrats continue to give an overwhelmingly negative assessment of how Bush is handling his job (86 percent disapprove, 75 percent do so "strongly").
Attitudes about the Iraq war also showed a deep political division. Eighty-one percent of Democrats and 65 percent of independents say the war in Iraq was not worth fighting, while most Republicans -- 69 percent -- say that on balance the war was worth fighting.
Overall, 61 percent of Americans feel the war was not worth fighting. Half of Americans feel "strongly" that the war was not worth fighting, double the number who strongly believe that it was.
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This poll was conducted Dec. 7-11 by telephone among a random national sample of 1,005 adults. The results have a three-point margin of sampling error.
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What part of the Pentagon do you work in?
Evidently the Armchair wing.
Peeking at my homepage? ;^)
I also don't like the way the war is going there. It's quite likely that popular opinion will prevail and end this war. Whether that's the right thing to do or not remains to be seen, but I don't think the Republicans are going to sit there and get wiped out again in 2 years - just like Sam Brownback said.
[The handling of this war, by the White House and Congress, is an absolute disgrace.]
Yeah- freeing millions of Iraqis, rebuilding infrastructures, freeing women to vote and be schooled, restoring and implimenting power etc, and removing them ost brutal dictator from power is a disgrace- you're right- how dare the President do such a thing! TRhe ONLY disgrace in all this was the friggin U.N! http://sacredscoop.com
I know for sure the lefties will be screaming but the way I see it, they screamed just as loud because the slimes published a picture of a muzzie with underwear on his head so we may as well go for the big bang.
POLLS are not a measure of what an informed public knows and believes about a subject.
They are the measure of how well the brainwashing by the MSM is working.
Yeah, and I hope Pres. Bush hands out pardons to the soldiers that were convicted of any wrongdoing with that torture crap. I would anticipate that some on the left would actually have a stroke if he did. :)
I look at it that 30 percent are true Americans who stick by America throught thick and thin.
We never responded to the insurgency with enough troops to pursue standard counter-insurgency tactics. The Rumsfeld-Abizaid "small footprint" strategy made sense initially, but is not the way to fight an insurgency.
Which only demonstrates that 7 of 10 of those surveyed are still wired in to the MSM for their "news" coverage, and have no real clue that we are at war in which the outcome actually means something to their stupid, miserable existence.
I wonder how General Curtis LeMay would like to have handled it? Then again, I know.
Fortunately only 4 of those 7 people are legal residents.
You notice they never ask the question: Do you think that Iran and Syria are responsible for the violence in Iraq?
DoD was, it seems.told not to extend the war beyond Iraq.
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