Comments on: Robot Warriors In Iraq

The Pentagon Is Looking Towards High-Tech Solutions In Effort To Reduce U.S. Casualties

[iceman_1960]

RE: Post by Iceman_1960 at 03:02 AM : Oct 22, 2007

Seriously, I did receive a laughably slanted poll like that once, from Hillary Clinton"s campaign.

Sample question:

"How concerned are you that the Bush/Cheney administration is reducing America"s stature in the eyes of the World, and diminishing our basic Constitutional liberties at home ?

(a) Very concerned.
(b) Somewhat concerned.
(c) Not concerned."

[feelfree1]

Iceman_1960,

Re: "Of course when CBS phrases the question like that, it slants the result."

Nice!;-)

[feelfree1]

%u201CWhy we stand for immediate withdrawal of all US troops from Iraq%u201D

%u201CTHE U.S. occupation of Iraq has not liberated the Iraqi people, but has made life worse for most Iraqis.%u201D

%u201CTens of thousands of U.S. service people have been killed or maimed, and hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis have lost their lives as a result of the U.S. invasion in 2003, the ongoing occupation, and the violence unleashed by them.%u201D

%u201CIraq''s infrastructure has been destroyed, and U.S. plans for reconstruction abandoned. There is less electricity, less clean drinking water, and more unemployment today than before the U.S. invasion.%u201D

%u201CAll of the justifications initially provided by the U.S. for waging war on Iraq have been exposed as lies; the real reasons for the invasion %u2014 to control Iraq''s oil reserves and to increase U.S. strategic influence in the region %u2014 now stand revealed.%u201D

%u201CThe Bush administration has insisted again and again that stability, democracy, and prosperity are around the next bend in the road%u2026But the U.S. has deliberately stoked sectarian divisions in its ongoing attempt to install a U.S.-friendly regime, thus driving Iraq towards civil war.%u201D

%u201CWe call on the U.S. to get out of Iraq %u2014 not in six months, not in a year, but now.%u201D

www.ipetitions.com/petition/OutNow

[iceman_1960]

"According to a recent CBS survey, only 26% of Americans are happy about how King Dipshit"s illegal war is going."
- Posted by FeelFree1 at 02:09 AM : Oct 22, 2007

Of course when CBS phrases the question like that, it slants the result.



[Just kidding]

[iceman_1960]

In fact there has never been a presidential election landslide in American history that equals the 64% who want the troops out of Iraq in a year.

The closest was Lyndon Johnson"s 61.1% over Goldwater in 1964.

It it were up to the American people, we"d be exiting that quagmire within a year.

[iceman_1960]

RE: "64% of Americans would like to see U.S. troops brought home from Iraq within a year."

To put that number in perspective, that"s a smaller percentage than voted for Nixon [60%] over McGovern in 1972, the second biggest landslide in American history.

[iceman_1960]

Conservative pollster Rasmussen agrees with CBS about Iraq.

"Tuesday, October 16, 2007

For the second straight week, a Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 64% of Americans would like to see U.S. troops brought home from Iraq within a year. Prior to this week"s results, support for bringing the troops home had increased in three consecutive weeks.

Twenty-eight percent (28%) who want the troops brought home immediately. That"s unchanged from a week ago but up from 20" five weeks ago."

Reference:

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/iraq_troop_withdrawal

[feelfree1]

Related:

According to a recent CBS survey, only 26% of Americans are happy about how King Dipshit''s illegal war is going.

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CBS News Poll. Oct. 12-16, 2007. N=1,282 adults nationwide. MoE 1 3 (for all adults).

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


Approve% Disapprove % Unsure %



ALL adults
26 67 7


Republicans
58 35 7


Democrats
8 89 3


Independents
18 72 10

[incog-nito]

Did Bush finally enlist?

[iceman_1960]

"The Pentagon Is Looking Towards High-Tech Solutions In Effort To Reduce U.S. Casualties"

Here''s one. (No extraoridinary high tech required.)

Now that al Qaeda has been "defeated" in Iraq, just do what we always said we were going to do when that happened.

Stand down, so the Iraqis can stand up. The good Iraqis. Maliki"s crowd. They have had more than enough time to get ready.

The Keystone Kops could have gotten ready in all the time they"ve had, and all the aid and support.

Pull the troops out. That would reduce U.S. casualties to zero.

And it"s what Bush always said he would do once al Qadea was defeated.