Posted on 08/25/2013 12:00:53 PM PDT by kristinn
Americans strongly oppose U.S. intervention in Syria's civil war and believe Washington should stay out of the conflict even if reports that Syria's government used deadly chemicals to attack civilians are confirmed, a Reuters/Ipsos poll says.
About 60 percent of Americans surveyed said the United States should not intervene in Syria's civil war, while just 9 percent thought President Barack Obama should act.
More Americans would back intervention if it is established that chemical weapons have been used, but even that support has dipped in recent days - just as Syria's civil war has escalated and the images of hundreds of civilians allegedly killed by chemicals appeared on television screens and the Internet.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll, taken August 19-23, found that 25 percent of Americans would support U.S. intervention if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces used chemicals to attack civilians, while 46 percent would oppose it. That represented a decline in backing for U.S. action since August 13, when Reuters/Ipsos tracking polls found that 30.2 percent of Americans supported intervention in Syria if chemicals had been used, while 41.6 percent did not.
Taken together, the polls suggest that so far, the growing crisis in Syria, and the emotionally wrenching pictures from an alleged chemical attack in a Damascus suburb this week, may actually be hardening many Americans' resolve not to get involved in another conflict in the Middle East.
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Hopefully this time, the Russians beat us there.
I find it exceedingly odd that Assad supposedly chem-ed his own people on the day UN weapons inspectors were due, and then what, hours later, the UN Security Council had n emergency meeting. It is all so bizarre.
We give the fox Muslim brothers the keys to the US hen house so they will not attack us, we hope. This is the china policy Nixon detente waged by looting libs. Of course they also jumped on the “stimulus” language to allow foreign aid and obamacare monsters.
Now Egypt is switching on us. Got to please the Moslem brothers in the White House and attempt giving them Syria.
When going to Afghanistan, I kid you not, sycophant Ozero officers made us a speech about waging LBJs war of poverty in Afghanistan ... It’s all lib programs. Completely stupid, Vietnam ROE included. It was amploymto help commits.
“When going to Afghanistan, I kid you not, sycophant Ozero officers made us a speech about waging LBJs war of poverty in Afghanistan.”
I thank the good Lord that no family members nor friends are in our military with the left wingers running/ruining the military.
The untold story here is that they’ve found the chemical weapons from Saddam which the left denied ever existed. What we don’t know is if Assad or the Al Qaida backed rebels used them.
Hmmmmmmmm. Who could the 9% be?
Where is Code Pink? Where is Cindy Sheehan? Where is Medea Benjamin? Not a peep from any of them. Guess this “war” is different.
AMEN!
LBJ went from being a so called great president with the liberals with his war on poverty, which is still being lost, to one of the worse presidents ever after he deepened the Nam War because of the so called Gulf of Tonkin event.
Now, Obozo Liar appears to be following in the footsteps of LBJ with his lies about Assad and Syria, while covering for the Muslim Brotherhood Thugs and al Queda in Syria.
"Obozo Liar is drawing us in and he will go with or without the consent of the Congress and the Consent of the Governed. This could be an impeachable act if he botches it and was not legally covered. What's it to him if a few US pilots get shot down, some guys get seriously injured in the cruise missile prep on our ships, Americans citizens are kidnapped by Hezbollah in Beirut,, US Embassy and consulates across the Middle East are MANPAD-ed with major strikes, and otherwise all hell breaks loose. Domestically, he can get NSA, Obozo care, Fox News wiretap-gate, IRS-gate and Benghazi off the front pages."
If Obozo Liar decides to attack the Syrian regime, he has ensured for the very first time in history that the United States will be on the same side as al-Qaeda. Quite an alliance! The Islamic thugs/serial killers, who slaughtered thousands of innocent Americans on 9/11, will then be fighting alongside the very nation whose innocents they so cruelly murdered almost exactly 12 years ago.
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