Poll: Calls To Get Out Of Iraq Escalate
77% In CBS News Poll Say War's Going Badly, 40% Urge Withdrawal Of All U.S. Troops
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More Americans than ever before, 77 percent, say the war is going badly, up from 66 percent just two months ago. Nearly half, 47 percent, say it's going very badly.
While the springtime surge in U.S. troops to Iraq is now complete, more Americans than ever are calling for U.S. forces to withdraw. Sixty-six percent say the number of U.S. troops in Iraq should be decreased, including 40 percent who want all U.S. troops removed. That's a 7-point increase since April.
HOW IS THE WAR GOING?
Well
Badly
Fewer than one in five thinks that the troop increase is helping to improve the situation in Iraq, while about half think the war is actually creating more terrorists.
The poll has bad news for President Bush, too. His job approval rating slipped to 27 percent, his lowest number ever in a CBS News poll — 3 points less than last month and 1 point below his previous low of 28 percent in January. His disapproval rating is also at an all-time high of 65 percent.
U.S. TROOP LEVELS IN IRAQ SHOULD
Increase
Keep the same number
Decrease
Remove all troops
"Presidents usually have popularity problems in their last two years in office," said Kathy Frankovic, CBS News director of surveys. "But the combination of shrinking support for the war in Iraq and opposition to domestic initiatives like the immigration bill has made assessment of this administration especially negative.
"Americans don't only disapprove of the president; they overwhelmingly see the country as on the wrong track," Frankovic said
But Congress also fared poorly in the poll. Its approval rating was also at 27 percent — a 9-point drop from last month. Nearly six in 10 among those surveyed said the 110th Congress has accomplished less during the last six months than Congress usually does.
Vice President Dick Cheney received a similarly low rating, with 28 percent approval and 59 percent disapproval.
The poll found a record number of Americans, 75 percent, believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. Only 19 percent think the U.S. is on the right track — the lowest number since CBS News first asked the question in 1983.
DIRECTION OF THE COUNTRY
Wrong track
Right direction
There's also rising concern about America's standing in the world.
Seven in 10 Americans say the United States is not respected around the world today. More than half say President Bush's foreign policy has made world leaders less likely to cooperate with the U.S.; just 10 percent say he's made foreign leaders more agreeable.
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See all 298 CommentsGuess this is what it looks like when a fascist rules a country....
Posted by pwrslm at 06:39 PM : Jun 29, 2007
Or it simply delivers news that an increasingly small percentage of America cannot accept.
pwrslm, your party is sinking on its own merits, not because of any little poll.
Bush is not a fascist, not with regard to this. He is only severely misguided. Americans won their freedom from the British and survived precisely because we were not occupied by troops, not even from within. When everyone is a troop, no one is.
Zionists do not care how many Americans have to die, or how much it costs US taxpayers, so long as Israel is shielded from accountability for her many crimes.
Zionism is terrorism.
pwrslm for one. Mudrose for two. katg21 for three. All 22 Bush-supporters blog here.
:)
Definitely send Scooter Libby and Jack Abramoff over there.
Village disputes story of deadly attack
A group of villagers in Iraq is bitterly disputing the US account of a deadly air attack on 22 June, in the latest example of the confusion surrounding the reporting of combat incidents there. The BBC's Jim Muir investigates:
On 22 June the US military announced that its attack helicopters, armed with missiles, engaged and killed 17 al-Qaeda gunmen who had been trying to infiltrate the village of al-Khalis, north of Baquba, where operation "Arrowhead Ripper" had been under way for the previous three days.
The item was duly carried by international news agencies and received widespread coverage, including on the BBC News website.
But villagers in largely-Shia al-Khalis say that those who died had nothing to do with al-Qaeda. They say they were local village guards trying to protect the township from exactly the kind of attack by insurgents the US military says it foiled. They say that of 16 guards, 11 were killed and five others injured - two of them seriously - when US helicopters fired rockets at them and then strafed them with heavy machinegun fire.
Minutes before the attack, they had been co-operating with an Iraqi police unit raiding a suspected insurgent hideout, the villagers said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6239896.stm
These are IRAQI citizens people and whether you want to label them "yankess" or "rebs" neither of them are Americans and it is their destiny to decide the fate of their country!
You read the reports about IRANIANS traing Shia Militia and in IRAN and the other 100 Muslim Nations you read about the US Training Shia Security Forces - PLEASE TELL ME THE DIFFERENCE!!!
This is the type of deceit that Bush has been shielding from America for over four years in order to keep US Support behind Keeping our Soldiers in HARMS WAY - with Cheerleaders like Cheney saying on CNN - that we are making enormous progress in IRAQ - STATE of DENIAL!
Bush should be tried for his War Crimes of Lying to the American People about No Weapons of Mass Destruction Found and putting us there with his own Vietnam!!
How Tragically SAD!
You've got nothing. You don't like the message so you attack the messenger. Where is your evidence of bias in this poll? Of course, you don't have any.
Minutes before the attack, they had been co-operating with an Iraqi police unit raiding a suspected insurgent hideout, the villagers said.
Posted by Smirk5 at 07:16 PM : Jun 29, 2007
-This is the kind of report that makes everyone here shiver, of future consequences. It's another cheap uninformed blood letting incident that will translate in more hatred from the Iraqis toward Western 'CIVILIZZZZZATION'. That cowboy style killing in remote villages will grow into their heart, into bigger, bloodier revengeful thoughts.
-Thanks Walking-Liar for this poisonous gift offered by your highness to your fellow Citizens. Our kids will not remember what YOU criminal and your as criminal cronies sowed now, but they (our kids) will harvest the anger of the mounting Iraqi generations who have had their fathers killed by our Evil Choppers... Damm you be into he11. Amen!
Democrat Congress 27%
Hillary clinton : admitting she did not read the intel reports on Iraq before voting yes on the war
Mc Cain: yes its safe to walk around Baghdad ( as helicopters and soldiers surround him).
Haven't we got anyone with any intelligence left in Washington???!!
In reality, the Iraiqs that suffer because of our actions, do not forget. As has been proven time after time, God help the poor US soldier/marine that is seperated from his buddies and falls into Iraq civilian hands.
Here our guys are suffering and dying for a people who hate us now.
You're posting this from Iraq or Afghanistan, right?
Wow, thanks for painting me a liberal. I'm a moderate and I want our troops to disengage and secure the borders of Iraq and let the loonies fight it out in the middle. This war was the biggest blunder of an American President. Bush and his cronies, have no clue on how to fight terrorism. Instead of hunting down Osama and Al Quaida in Afghanistan and securing that country against terrorists, we take down Saddam who had nothing to do with 9/11 and we have now created the biggest terrorist country in the world. WOW ALL THAT IN A SHORT 5 YEARS!
robertkjjj, liberals aren't the only ones that want this war to end. Plus your reasons for continuing this absurd war is fearmongering at its worst.
Is that you Pat Robertson?
Zionism is terrorism.
Thanks for that excellent example.
ALL Zionists should be in Afghanistan and Iraq putting their ass_s where their mealy mouths are.
You're posting this from Iraq or Afghanistan, right?
Posted by Smirk5 at 07:51 PM : Jun 29, 2007
He (???) can't travel.
He (???) is in prison for raping a little boy. The GOP outsourced its trolling operation to privatized prisons.
Were tired of figting your president's war while yall Rep sit and watch..
ITS OVER!!!
Iraq not going well? Headed in the wrong direction?
No sh|t?!!
Get out of Iraq!!!
Try, convict, sentence the mass murderous and cleptocratic global pirates!!!
www.ipetitions.com/petition/OutNow
"EXACTLY what would you do if President Bush decided that he needed another preemptive war before he leaves office? How would you stop him from doing the same thing all over again because he needs to "fight them over there , so WE don"t have to fight them at home? Would you find out what he means by "WE"?"
REFUSE TO FIGHT!!! It is not your duty to comply with an illegal war! It IS your duty to resist it! Your sworn oath is to our Constitution, not to some unelected fascistic wannabe cowboy!!!
"Do not fight for a dying regime. It is not worth your life." GWB
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxKpeKQA6B4
We need you home, so that we can concentrate on re-asserting control over our run amok, fascistic, and fraudulent government!
Refuse!!!
www.couragetoresist.org
www.ivaw.org
Best post on here in months. Thank you for saying what needs to be said.
Posted by robertkjjj at 07:45 PM : Jun 29, 2007
1st What makes you think you know more than the 72% are you a expert
2nd How dare you to compare Iraq to ww2 invading a country and occupying that country
3rd If you are worried about your children you should sign up to take care of the problem.
4th But in the meantime remove your head from up your butt.
Good analysis. I concur.
With 100 U.S. soldiers now dead in June, the Bush pirates have managed to cause the unnecessary deaths of 100 or more U.S. soldiers, for 3 straight months, marking a death rate that has not been seen during the entire illegal war.
This seems to demonstrate that nobody kills American soldiers, for no good reason, like the Bush regime pirates.
coordinated by Israeli Intelligence on New York and Washington, by Muslim Terrorists, and every
American climbed onboard the Appocalypse Express.
The only blunder here was on the part of the American Reetards who couldn't see this coming
from a mile away.
Posted by veteran71 at 08:12 PM : Jun 29, 2007
-vet71. Great posting!
Get smart and leave. We need to worry about ourselves before we worry about others, we've got enough messes to clean up in our own backyard first!
Also, Iraq ignoring over a dozen UN resolutions over a 10+ year period was reason enough for ANY Western power to invade. We had the right and moral imperative to do so, especially after 9-11 and how subsequently the US adopted a 100% correct preemptive strategy against states who support terrorism.
Next, I don't have to go to war and fight myself, and your comment was naove and immature to even imply such. Perhaps you didn't know this, but we have an all-volunteer military. Marines and soldiers know exactly what they are signing up for when they join. This is the way it works, in the event you are confused: you and I and the rest of us pay taxes. The taxes pay for the military. The soldiers serve at the Commander-in-Chief's discretion. Which means, they don%u2019t question where they go or why they fight. Period.
I'll ignore your last "butt" comment, as it clearly shows I am trying to have a serious debate with a semi-illiterate teenager.
I'll take a little of what YOU'RE smoking
robertkjjj:"Marines and soldiers know exactly what they are signing up for when they join." Even the one's that come home in pine boxes? I doubt it. When you're young you're going to live forever. We were all young once, regarding this war, and too many thought going in would just be jolly fun! Too few urged caution at the time.
Posted by robertkjjj at 08:41 PM : Jun 29, 2007
Sorry, I disagree. We had a right to invade? And it is moral? Did a god tell you this? Do you feel that you are superior to other human being? Do we belong to the United Nations? If that is the case then why wait until after 9/11 when the invasion plan was in place 6 months before. Even Powell now says it was an error!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/09/60minutes/main592330.shtml
The great neocon lie. For 40 years, we had thousands of nuclear weapons pointed at us, yet according to neocons, Islam is our greatest threat ever? A bunch of people living in f*cking caves? The neocons can't scare the American people with Russian nukes anymore, so now they are trying with Islamikc terrorists.
You've been frightened by privatized special interest politicians and demoralized by a fear of losing your jobs. You demand nothing humane for yourselves like holiday time, healthcare, better schools etc. so you sing and dance the corporate dance that is run by the wealthy who own the government and enjoy much more than the basic things you fear to expect. You've been frightened and demoralized as the means to control you and it has worked well. A smoke screen of deceipt has clouded this nation and only a few who arrogantly parade themselves about as being true americans enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Opportunity is slipping away fast and the ones who call themselves great americans referring to "picking themselves up by their bootstraps" will in essence be the seedlings of the Old European world order this nation is moving toward.
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