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

(CBS)  A CBS News poll shows Americans are increasingly dissatisfied with the Iraq war, President Bush and the Congress, as well as the overall direction of the country.

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
22%
Badly
77%

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
11%
Keep the same number
17%
Decrease
26%
Remove all troops
40%

"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
75%
Right direction
19%

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.

[bareemperor]

What in the world will it take to wake up our national media?
Guess this is what it looks like when a fascist rules a country....

[pwrslm]

the bad thing about CBS news polls is that it primarilly delivers news based on the liberal agenda, and its results cannot reflect a believable representation of what the public actually thinks because of CBS's own bias.

[aaabee-2009]

The bad thing about CBS news polls is that it primarilly delivers news based on the liberal agenda, and its results cannot reflect a believable representation of what the public actually thinks because of CBS's own bias.
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.

[dan9111]

Markets. It's all about markets! Iraq needs free markets, not troops. They will implode without self-sufficient and self-paid security in private hands. But they will implode even faster with the help of the particular style of American military usage we have paid for, and the weapons and money we'll leave behind.

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.

[kansas1946]

A poll based on the "liberal agenda?" What I can't believe about the poll is that there are 17pct of Americans that think we should keep the same number of troops in Iraq. Good, God. Yes, lets just let five to ten young Americans get killed every day for eternity. Grand idea.

[kansas1946]

And who are the brain-dead 22pct that think the war is going well. Must be those folks with a "conservative agenda." This war is a disaster, is getting worse, was a horrible idea to start with, based on pitiful leadership, lies, and manipulations of information. It is just that folks are finally waking up.

[tuckerndfw]

I'd be willing to bet a large sum of money that if Zionists were excluded from the polls, the number opposing the occupatoin of Iraq would be within 5 points of 95%.

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.

[aaabee-2009]

And who are the brain-dead 22pct that think the war is going well.

pwrslm for one. Mudrose for two. katg21 for three. All 22 Bush-supporters blog here.

:)

[smirk5]

MyOpinion1,

Definitely send Scooter Libby and Jack Abramoff over there.

[smirk5]

It was just a matter of time before common sense Americans would shed their fear and realize that the Republican "create more enemies" strategy in the Middle East is bad for America.

[smirk5]

BBC News
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

[drummer94]

Some people that post here, can't (or won't) believe that this was a HUGE blunder by the shrub. They so believe that an ideology can be defeated. I think it is more that they have a monetary stake in continuing this fiasco. Even the repug-paid trolls will soon lose their jobs cause the ship is sinkin' fast and they are all linin' up for that last chair for when the music stops.

[arthurcl1]

The Military Brass want to hide these events to try and distort the realities of this Civil War in IRAQ. US TROOPS are viewed as "occupiers" no longer liberators... and thus, just as much a problem as the insurgents to the ultimate stability of their country!
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!

[pwrslm]

the bad thing about CBS news polls is that it primarilly delivers news based on the liberal agenda, and its results cannot reflect a believable representation of what the public actually thinks because of CBS's own bias.

[smirk5]

pwrslm,

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.

[drummer94]

"the bad thing about CBS news polls..." Soundin' a little shaky there, slick. You linin' up for one a dem chairs?

[grazinggoat]

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.
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!

[airmanc5]

Bu$h 27%
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???!!

[ramos937]

Smirk5 comments are tragically too often true. Somehow, someway, we seem to just have accepted that if mistakes are made than that is just acceptable collateral damage. We mouth platitudes such as we regret, our hearts go out, etc. But because it does not actually happen to us, we forget it and go about our business.

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.

[robertkjjj]

Even if it was 99% of Americans wanting out of Iraq, those 99% would be naive, appeasers, cowards, and dead wrong. It is mind-boggling that Americans who simply want out are unable to see how dangerous and foolish a pullout would be. A pullout equals a surrender. A surrender equals a victory for the Jihadist scum who are trying to make us leave through their mass-killing campaigns, usually of civilians. A perceived victory for Jihadists will embolden radical Islam worldwide, and make them even more likely to kill Americans and non-Muslims everywhere, here and abroad. Many who read this will disagree, but then you know nothing of history, warfare, evil, and what results from appeasing such an enemy. We should fight in Iraq until we are seen globally to have achieved a decisive victory; no matter how long it takes, no matter the losses. This was exactly what our grandparents did in WW2; it is the right thing to do now as well. I shudder for the future of my two small children, as a loss in Iraq will make their future ten times more dangerous. You liberals who want to hand the Islamists a victory: you should be ashamed. Ashamed.

[drummer94]

Airmanc5- Sure doesn't seem that way does it. It's gonna be a tough election cycle-for the voter.

[pepperp1]

Five soldiers where killed today alone 99 this month, we need to get the troops out of harms way period, our soldiers cannot continue to be scarified for this disastrous mistake.

[smirk5]

robertkjjj,

You're posting this from Iraq or Afghanistan, right?

[drummer94]

robertkjjj- This is absolutely nothing like ww2. This was a blunder by loony-toon. If we had not taken Sadam out and they (the Iraqi people) did, the result would be the same. They would be killin each other until they have had enough. Radicals in Islam are a minority. The majority always wins the day.

[bajabenedik-2009]

You liberals who want to hand the Islamists a victory: you should be ashamed. Ashamed

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.

[tuckerndfw]

Posted by robertkjjj at 07:45 PM : Jun 29, 2007

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.

[tuckerndfw]

robertkjjj,

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.

[chadb19]

robertkjjj....send your kids to fight then come talk to us about what you think we should do.

Were tired of figting your president's war while yall Rep sit and watch..

ITS OVER!!!

[feelfree1]

We must focus our attention on bringing the illegitimate Bush regime and their accomplices before a judge, for a fair trial, and appropriate sentencing.

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

[pastdue1]

The questions that should be asked of all presidential candidates in all debates are ~
"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"?"

[smirk5]

I love the crazy few Cons left that support the Iraq debacle and refer to everyone who disagrees with this war (including many Republicans) as essentially surrender monkeys. They are getting more and more shrill as their "create more enemies" strategy is becoming more and more marginalized.

[feelfree1]

To our troops:

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

[stezzer]

yurpallid

Best post on here in months. Thank you for saying what needs to be said.

[deadjester1]

its the jews man, they engineered this war. they're responible for all the good wars. gotta love 'em!

[rharrin1]

Many who read this will disagree, but then you know nothing of history, warfare, evil, and what results from appeasing such an enemy. We should fight in Iraq until we are seen globally to have achieved a decisive victory; no matter how long it takes, no matter the losses. This was exactly what our grandparents did in WW2; it is the right thing to do now as well. I shudder for the future of my two small children, as a loss in Iraq will make their future ten times more dangerous. You liberals who want to hand the Islamists a victory: you should be ashamed. Ashamed.
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.

[feelfree1]

veteran71 at 08:12 PM ,

Good analysis. I concur.

[feelfree1]

We knew that it would be close, but the Bush regime butchers managed to set yet another record, for pointlessly wasting the lives of U.S. soldiers in their illegal war against Iraq.

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.

[grazinggoat]

One big attack
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!

[l8c6]

I'm saddened by what this country has become. We the people of this nation are controlled by being demoralized and frightened by the wealthy who control our government.

[pepperp1]

The toll for the past three months _ 329 US Soldiers killed 3,578 since conflict began almost 5 years ago, you paranoid cry baby pansies on the right, you are not safe now, you never will be, policy have consequences, you want cheap oil, you want to invade a country that was not a threat to the United States, you turn your head when you hear 250,000 of their country men may have killed, you don%u2019t even demand that your government tell you how many have been killed in your name, guess what live with the consequences, you should be afraid.

[ladyd1800]

Funny, that whole thing is. It only took Americans up until now to figure out it was wrong. Sometimes things like this kick us in the butt when we are not looking and remind us we are not perfect, we are not the superior country anymore. We no longer have the top educations to offer, the top scientists no longer come from here, we are no longer the dominate. It's time to remember we are not always welcome and to leave before we manage to **** off anyone else.
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!

[robertkjjj]

Rharrin1, actually I am an expert. Unless you don't count 22 years of Middle East studies, a MA in History, and a BA in Political Science. How many classes and books and whitepapers and essays have YOU written on the Middle East or Islam? My educated guess: zero.

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.

[klifton2-2009]

When is enough really enough? The deaths keep mounting and Bush stays the course. The "surge" is an exercise in futility and along with it comes daily deaths and destruction. What does it take for a nation to listen and to hear the mournful cries of so many families that have lost their loved ones because of Bush's deception and lies over an illegal war? America, has a nation of people, has failed if Bush/Cheney and likes of them are allowed to work themselves through this disaster with impunity. Shame on you America for allowing this horrible state of affairs to continue. Tomorrow is another day and will it bring more deaths and sorrows to so many families here in America and in Iraq?

[ubrew12]

john97068: "Womens rights, music, dress code, girls only in schools, manditory Muslim faith....yes I guess freedom and liberties no longer matter to the dope smoking crowd. "

I'll take a little of what YOU'RE smoking

[napolesdi]

What makes this so sad and crimmnal is that we have these kids who are willing to give their lives for lies and the fact is that there are no jobs out there for them that they enlist into the armed services. What makes it crimminal is we have a president and vice president who have given their word not to the american people but to the arms dealers, the oil people etc. Bush and Cheney will stand up for big business but don't give a *** about our kids that is what is crimminal. Until Bush and Cheney are impeached nothing will change, our kids will keep enlisting because they have no choice. Until our elected officials are confronted as we have on our ports and the amnesty immigration nothing will change, it is our duty to call write, email what ever it takes to get our kids out of Iraq and Afghanistan.For the first time in our entire history we have Bush and Cheney who will do what ever it takes even if it is illegal to make sure that big business, arms dealers, oil people keep making billions of dollars. We do not have one department in the government that isn't broken what is wrong with this picture. Have a nice day.

[ubrew12]

robertkjjj:"Iraq ignoring over a dozen UN resolutions over a 10+ year period was reason enough for ANY Western power to invade." It wasn't the reason, though, otherwise we'd have invaded Israel long ago. Not that you neocon's needed a reason in this 'democracy', but the reason given was WMD, which is laughable in retrospect. The Iraq War, based on WMD, was justified, it was never urgent, however. Once the Int'l weapons inspectors were let back in, it should never have happened.

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.

[ioweign]

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.

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

[jetranger7]

UNTIL ALL AMERICANS STAND UP AGAINST PRESIDENT BUSH AND CORRUPT CHENEY IN PUBLIC, AND TAKE TO THE STREETS IN PROTEST AT STATE CAPITOLS ACROSS THIS COUNTRY AND DEMAND AND INSIST THEY BOTH BE IMMEDIATELY IMPEACHED, NOTHING WILL CHANGE !!!! THEY'VE ON PURPOSELY LIED AND BILKED THE US GOVERNMENT OUT OF MULTI-BILLIONS OF TAX DOLLARS, THAT THEY HAVE NOT A CLUE WHERE ANY OF IT WENT AND DON'T REALLY , CARE EITHER !!!!! THIS VP-CHENEY SHOULD SIT IN PRISION FOR HIS PART IN ALL THE LIES AND MISHANDLING, AND HIS OUTRIGHT ARROGRANCE AND GREED AND LIES !!!!! HE'S AS CROOKED AS A DOGS HIND LEG,, AND MORE CORRUPT THAN THE MOB !!! ITS TIME FOR AMERICANS TO STAND UP, AND SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, NO MORE LIES, NO MORE RHETORIC, NO MORE BUSH / CHENEY EITHER !!!!!!! KICK THEM OUT OF PUBLIC OFFICE, AND INVESTIGATE THEM BOTH AND SEND THEM TO PRISION !!!!!!!!!! ENOUGH !!!!!!!!!!!

[rafterman1]

===The overall war on freedoms vs Islam has just begun. Liberals, wake up, its noon and your hashish has worn off.===

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.

[l8c6]

robertkjjj, It's sad and tragic those of you that bought the rants of Reagan that went on the airwaves with Limbaugh. This is such empty talk---"the liberals"...this is what the "liberals"do. What fools to allow yourselves to be so deceived and duped by this empty distracting rhetoric.

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.