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| 57% now say Iraq war not worth it |
| 2005-05-04 |
| WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A majority of Americans do not believe it was worth going to war in Iraq, according to a national poll released Tuesday. Fifty-seven percent of those polled said they did not believe it was worth going to war, versus 41 percent who said it was, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll of 1,006 adults. That was a drop in support from February, when 48 percent said it was worth going to war and half said it was not. It's also the highest percentage of respondents who have expressed those feelings and triple the percentage of Americans who said that it was not worth the cost shortly after the war began about two years ago. |
| Posted by:Thurong Phereng3787 |
| #11 ..and we ought to require all non Iraqis to wear GPS broadcasters internally so we know where they are when they are kidnapped Or in the case of coalition partner citizens working for contractors, either bring in arms-capable employees or train them in their use. No one should be kidnapped without a fight. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-05-04 21:28 |
| #10 57% are wrong |
| Posted by: Captain America 2005-05-04 21:10 |
| #9 Also need to know the intensity of the opinions expressed. I suspect the war's proponents are still strongly in favor of the war, whereas most of those opposed are only lukewarm in their opposition. A case of battle fatigue, for most. |
| Posted by: thibaud (aka lex) 2005-05-04 21:03 |
| #8 MHW: You think so? I suspect 4ID killing a lot of Sunnis on their way down from Turkey would have thinned the ranks considerably. Damned Turks (and French). |
| Posted by: someone 2005-05-04 19:32 |
| #7 These numbers don't surprise me given the MSM's focus on suicide bombings. Its time to intensively sweep Sunni areas (using Shiia and Kurd militias) and lock up anyone who can't prove they are Iraqi, has handled explosives or is suspect for any reason. Keep doing it until the violence stops and it will when the Sunnis get the message that things will continue to get worse until they stop supporting terrorism. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2005-05-04 18:34 |
| #6 given the numerous suicide bombings and the way the media play these up, this number is expected however, it is also interesting that the people who were pushing the 'the war was OK but Bush screwed up the occupation' line have pretty much ceased this it seems obvious now that nothing we could have reasonably done (shoot looters, not abolish the Iraqi army, not abolish the Baathist party, more troops) could have prevented the intense suicide bomb war in retrospect, we probably should have killed many more Sunnis, we should have arrested many more Sunnis and we should have kept these protokillers in prison with no hope of parole -- we should also have banned Al Jazzera within a week of the Saddam statue falling we also still need a way to protect recruitment centers and we ought to require all non Iraqis to wear GPS broadcasters internally so we know where they are when they are kidnapped |
| Posted by: mhw 2005-05-04 18:23 |
| #5 To extrapolate the opinions of 1006 |
| Posted by: Raj 2005-05-04 18:22 |
| #4 More honest headline: ''Ginned-up Poll Shows Media Propaganda Campaign Effective'' But do they really think this is going to stand up in November 2006? If so, the Dems are more handicapped by the press than I'd thought. |
| Posted by: someone 2005-05-04 18:22 |
| #3 I agree Zhang. After the last election, I don't even come close to beliving any poll I see. |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-05-04 18:06 |
| #2 It would be nice to know the internals - how many Democrats sampled and how many Republicans, and how many Democrats and Republicans from blue states (which tend to be more liberal). Without these numbers, the polls are meaningless. Besides, the only polls that matter are the ones we have in November on even-numbered years. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2005-05-04 17:56 |
| #1 However, if gas were $1.50/g.... |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2005-05-04 17:31 |