NEW YORK, July 18, 2007
Poll: Most Support Iraq Timetable
CBS/NYT Poll: 61% Say Congress Shouldn't Fund War Without Timetable For Withdrawal
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Sixty-one percent of Americans surveyed think the war should be funded only if there's a timetable for withdrawal. Twenty-eight percent say funding should be continued without a timetable, while 8 percent think all funding for the war should be blocked, no matter what.
WHAT SHOULD CONGRESS DO ABOUT IRAQ WAR FUNDING?
Fund with timetable
61%Allow all funding
28% Block all funding
8% There's a sharp political divide on the funding issue. Most Democrats (77 percent) and Independents (60 percent) think funding should be tied to a pullout timetable, while more than half of Republicans (53 percent) think funding for war should continue unfettered.
Americans remain extremely dissatisfied with the course of the war. Seventy-four percent, about the same number as last month, say the war is going badly, including 45 percent who say it's going very badly.
Again, there's a strong political split, with large majorities of Democrats (91 percent) and Independents (76 percent) saying the war is going badly, while half of Republicans say it's going well.
HOW IS THE WAR GOING?
Total
Well
25%Badly
74% Republicans
Well
49%Badly
50% Democrats
Well
8%Badly
91% Independents
Well
22%Badly
76% More than half of Americans (51 percent) surveyed do not think President Bush's recent troop surge is having any impact on the situation in Iraq. Sixty-three percent think the number of U.S. troops should be decreased, including one in three that says all U.S. troops should be removed. Eighteen percent think the U.S. troop level should stay the same; 12 percent say it should be increased.
The poll also looked at views of the war by gender. While a majority of both men and women think the war is going badly, more women (67 percent) than men (54 percent) say funding for the war should be tied to a troop withdrawal timetable; more men (35 percent) than women (21 percent) think funding for the war should be allowed, no matter what.
This poll was conducted among a random sample of 1,554 adults nationwide, interviewed by telephone from July 9-17, 2007. The error due to sampling for results based on the entire sample could be plus or minus three percentage points. The error for subgroups is higher. An oversample of women was also conducted for this poll, for a total of 1,068 interviews among this group, by selecting them with higher probability than men in households with both men and women. The weights of men and women in mixed-gender households were adjusted to compensate for their different probabilities of selection. The final weighted distribution of men and women in the sample is in proportion to the composition of the adult population in the U.S. Census.
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See all 294 CommentsRepublicans will not do as the voters want them to do as a result the republican party will be no more than a bad memory.
Liberals are idiots, and should not be entrusted with military matters.
I know the pop hate radio fans have totally mangled the definition of liberal, but now it includes w, d!ck, and their ilk.
... every day ...
HOW MANY FAILURES are you apologist Repug pansy going to allow your boy George until YOU demand he resign, wrong, mistake after mistake, wrong failed and you are responsible for putting his sorry *** in office, go have a beer George who is and always has been an untalented neo con puppet in office, YOU should remedy this mess.
Posted by pepperp1 at 07:02 PM : Jul 18, 2007
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I agree completely. Instead of trying to find someone else to blame or point fingers at fictional american's calling them "liberal's", they should step up to the Plate here. We're all American's FIRST and they have an Incompetent and a Fraud in office.
Posted by One_American at 06:52 PM : Jul 18, 2007
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Haven't we had enough of this garbage? Anyone who doesn't march to the party line, or should I say the Southern Fascist line is a "Liberal" and therefore not qualified to be an American. I grew up with this trash, listened to it while lower than life creatures lynched and bombed people because of the color of their skin and now I have to listen to it because I and so many like me tell the truth about and Incompetent Leader who happens to be a Southern Fascist. Enough already!! Go get a HISTORY Book PLEASE!! Read about all the great leaders in our history and discover that all, every last one of them was a LIBERAL!! Time for you low life freaks to either be AMERICAN or get the H-e-LL out of the way...
think that'll happen?
i doubt it!
the south thrives on death, hate, war, arrogance, death and destruction.
ha,ha,ha.
that's the south for you, folks!
jefferson davis lost his,
johnson lost his
bush will lose his.
the south has lost every war they started.
idiot southern creeps are only good for sunday afternoon parades
in their tight-butt uniforms.
ha,ha,ha.
war, division, arrogance, phony christian creeps, crooked republican snakes...
nothing good comes out of the south!
they hope to win the all time loser's award.
jefferson davis lost his war...
johnson lost his war...
bush will lose his war...
if the south can lose just one more war,
they will beat the french for wars lost.
ha,ha,ha.
those idiot southern creeps ought to stay on the parade field.
they're not suited for fighting america's wars.
nothing good comes out of the south.
When will the liberal elitists learn that polls mean nothing?
The only thing I can think is that they are trying to protect the troops. Well I was a troop over their and it is a disaster. The troops know it and it is only those who watch too much TV who believe that the people back home have to believe in the war to support the troops. Rediculous to the 10th degree.
Well
22%
Badly
76%
This is what's going to KILL the GOP next year. All the moderates and independents that voted your way in '00 and '04 will be basically GONE. The truth is you needed them as much as the ultra-conservative Christians you shamlessly pander to. Now you've allienated most of them with your corruption and insane support for the Iraq war.
From Rasussen Reports:
Bush Job Approval Steady at 39%
President Bush%u2019s firm position on Iraq has firmed up his Job Approval numbers. For the fifth straight day, 39% of Americans say they approve of the way the President his performing his job.
Our corrupt liberal MSM wolfpack needs to come ASAP to help their leaderless, and classless Democrat pals in Congress with some heavy doses of propaganda. CBS (Corrupt Broadcasting Station) get with the NYTimes and run a poll and when the results come in manipulate the numbers until you get the results you wanted.
I grew up in Washington DC ever since Lady Bird started her planting of flowers around the city, but I've never seen a more corrupt liberal press nor a more combative bunch of liberal Democrat Congressman............ EVER and it's really sad.
http://your senators last name.senate.gov
send him this from the NIE reports just in case he hasn't read it. "In many respects, the National Intelligence Estimate suggests the threat of terrorist violence against the United States is growing worse, fueled by the Iraq War and subsequent spreading of Islamic extremism"
Another excerpt:
"All told, despite the absence of any new attack on American soil since 2001, the conclusion that Al Qaeda %u201Cwill continue to enhance its capabilities%u201D to attack the United States suggests some miscalculation in the administration%u2019s basic formula against terrorism: that attacking the jihadists overseas would protect the homeland."
Ask your senator why we are still staying the course and saying that we must fight them over there so we won't have to fight them at home. It is important for all Americans who want to change the direction that our country is taking to let their representatives know. Everyone needs to flood their offices. It is the first step to getting responsible leadership for our country.
"Do you believe it is important to win this war against al-Qaeda we are fighting in Iraq?"
The reason is because New York Times and CBS are trying to steer public opinion to benefit the Democrat Party's agenda.
In other words, they don't report the news; they MAKE IT ALL UP.
It only makes sense to stop creating terrorists.
Al qaida in Iraq is threatened more by a troop withdrawal than any other faction. Al qaida are Sunnis, the majority of Iraqis are Shias. When US forces stop protecting al qaida, Shias will eliminate them.
Actually I think its kinda weird how the USA has had so much interest in that country for so long.
I agree, One_American.
Let's ask people if we should win the war.
The Democrat Party can't afford for the US to win in Iraq. Their success as a party is tied to the US losing in Iraq and pulling out. CBS stories like this just help their cause.
Their party symbol fits them well.
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Posted by One_American at 08:03 PM : Jul 18, 2007
The reason is because that is not a legitimate poll question. That is called "push polling" and indicates the questioner is promoting an agenda.
they should had taken one at berkley and at the 'no war for oil" protest to seal the deal
The tide is turning alright.. towards Islamic extremism.
When will the liberal elitists learn that polls mean nothing?
Posted by One_American at 07:53 PM : Jul 18, 2007
Only if they are done on DieBold
However, Iraq was lost when the looting started and nothing was done to gain control.
w has lied about everything, why should we believe what he says will happen if we leave Iraq now to the Iraqi's?
Come on CBS News, you know Republicans politicians don't care what the people want. They're Authoritarians - THEY tell the people what to do, not the other way around.
And the average Republican wants to be led around like a child, so it all works out
I want failure in Iraq. A pre-empted war? No justification? That administration should fail, miserably. And go home, or to the Hague. And never come back..
The only mission accomplished was in creating an al qaeda disneyland.
I want a multi-national/multi-ethnic group of peacekeepers sent in as our military is leaving.
I want our government to try to understand what the Iraqis are fighting about so that we might identify some kind of resolution for them (such as splitting the country).
The Bush administration appears to have made stupid mistakes in the so-called war on terror, but it seems more likely that it was "chaos by design." The most obvious purpose of such chaos would be to move large amounts of money from one entity (U.S. government perhaps) to another (private companies and individuals such as those who receive no-bid defense contracts).
We've got to stay and straighten things out. The Iraqi would otherwise just kill themselves like animals and take out everyone else around them in the process.
Anyone who thinks that, the attosecond we leave, they start throwing parties and rebuilding things -- they're wrong.
The reality is we are there and we will leave but we will do it in a way that doesn't hand our enemies a easy victory. By the way the zit on your butt was not caused by President George Bush.
Posted by One_American at 08:03 PM : Jul 18, 2007
The reason is because that is not a legitimate poll question. That is called "push polling" and indicates the questioner is promoting an agenda.
Posted by tuckerndfw at 08:08 PM : Jul 18, 2007
How about it is propaganda and not worthy of a legitimate question, most of our troops are killed by Iraqis. Al Qaeda killing our troops is more Bush lies, propaganda false argument bull schit, Al Qaeda is about the suicide bombers they generally kill Iraqis. Can you not read or count or do you just choose to be uniformed manipulated by BULL. And don't foget it was the Neo Con press including the NYT that carried your WMD lies, they may not like you calling them names.
The reality is we are there and we will leave but we will do it in a way that doesn't hand our enemies a easy victory."
Posted by telecom_1
MAYBE you MISSED all the reports, including those of advisors to BUSH that said Iraq had NOTHING to do with the attacks on 9/11, let me repeat that again; IRAQ HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ATTACKS ON 9/11, therefore the revenge war on Iraq was unjustified and criminal, it also did not even touch those who WERE responsible.
If you want to hold people responsible, then go after SAUDI ARABIA who has been proven had connections to 9/11.
All Bush did was make more attacks MORE likely now as REVENGE.
And why not let it go to he11? Then it would be easy to just rocket the first numbnuts that says he's in command!
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