Posted on 04/27/2007 12:37:37 PM PDT by greyfoxx39
According to a recent USA Today/Gallup poll, 61% of Americans oppose “denying the funding needed to send any additional U.S. troops to Iraq,” and opposition is up from 58% in February. (3/23-25, 2007).
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A recent Public Opinion Strategies (POS) poll found that 56% of registered voters favor fully funding the war in Iraq, with more voters strongly favoring funding (40%) than totally opposing it (38%); (3/25-27, 2007).
POS found also that a majority of voters (54%) oppose the Democrats imposing a reduction in troops below the level military commanders requested (3/25-27, 2007).
A separate POS poll finds 57% of voters support staying in Iraq until the job is finished and “the Iraqi government can maintain control and provide security for its people.” And 59% of voters say pulling out of Iraq immediately would do more to harm America’s reputation in the world than staying until order is restored (35%); (2/5-7, 2007).
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A Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll show 69% of American voters trust military commanders more than members of Congress (18%) to decide when United States troops should leave Iraq. This includes 52% of Democrats, 69% of Independents and 88% of Republicans (3/27-28, 2007).
According to a recent Pew Research survey, only 17% of Americans want an immediate withdrawal of troops (4/18-22, 2007). That same poll found a plurality of adults (45%) believe a terrorist attack against the United States is more likely if we withdraw our troops from Iraq while the “country remains unstable” Should a date for withdrawal be set, 70% of American believe it is likely that “insurgents will increase their attacks in Iraq” starting on that day. This is supported by 85% of Republicans, 71% of Independents and 60% of Democrats. (FOX News/Opinion Dynamics, 4/17-18, 2007).
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A telling tale, it is.
Sure is strange to me that I hear daily that "the American people" want us to get out of Iraq immediately. Lying POS DBM.
KAC, you run the Middle East thread, so I have pinged you...bahbah, morning talk shows , STARWISE, ping away.
Very interesting.
Shame the dems in power only play to their moonbat base and in anger towards anything President Bush has done.
But they’re only doing the will of an “OVERWHELMING MAJORITY” of Americans. Withdrawal is what the American people voted for. Harry Reid told me so.
Seriously, if the American people really feel this way, they’d (we’d) better start screaming it from the rooftops... or we’re going to disgrace the men we’ve already lost, and get a whole lot more killed in the process.
It's a dangerous game they are playing. I hope it bites them big time.
Chuck Schumer loves to lie like this from the Senate floor. You'd think he never hears from a constituent who disagrees with him.
‘Sure is strange to me that I hear daily that “the American people” want us to get out of Iraq immediately’
Drives me crazy when I hear people like Reid say this. They don’t have a clue what the American people want! Who do they poll....other libs??
Chuck only listens to the Bailey’s, the fictional family in his head.
LOL! If his real constituents won't agree with him, he can manufacture some who do.
Americans are a bright, educated group of people especially now in the Information Age. What we all want is victory in Iraq. That to me means being there until the new government can take over. Desipte the disruptions from Iran and Al Queda, the timeframe to consider withdrawal would be based on Iraqi troop, police and government readiness and from what I have heard, this is more like 2010.
I wish the democrats had as much sense as you show in this post.
Prolly hide these numbers under the R's numbers for 2008 too.
R's are stupid and D's are vicious. What a state of affairs.
I think a lot of us are really discouraged right now, watching the media gloating and blatantly propagandizing against the war and the Bush administration. Makes you feel really helpless, doesn’t it?
Not really GF. I expect it from them. And I've come to expect the Repubs not calliing them on it as part of the Republican character by now.
After all. Where's the best place for the Dems to hide their blatant lies and hypocracies? Right under the R's collective noses. They KNOW they'll never be called on it.
Besides, I don't think that the election turned on the war. I think that it turned on immigration. That and the administration hypocrisy that they'll "protect" the American people by fighting the enemy in Iraq while leaving any enemy who wishes to to cross the southern border and do all the damage they can.
lol. sorry about the mini-rant here.
I simply have ZERO faith in Republicans anymore.
Rant away. I too am having problems with being a republican. I can still call myself a conservative though.
“I wish the democrats had as much sense as you show in this post.”
Thank you. I wished the Dems had any sense at all these days. It is beyond baffling nowadays.
Want to know what the problem is? Pseudo “Conservatives” who run around the web NEVER ever doing anything but screaming bile at the Republicans.
You always whining types almost cost us 2004, did cost us 2006 and will cost us 2008.
Want to help the Conservatives? GET OFF OUR SIDE. Pretty tough to win a battle when 40% of your squad spends ALL their time sniping their own side in the back.
And of course this is all over the US Junk media today......
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