Gallup: Almost Two-Thirds Want Iraq Withdrawal
By E&P Staff
Published: July 07, 2006 11:25 AM ET
NEW YORKEditor and Publisher- A new Gallup poll finds that roughly 2 in 3 Americans urge a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, with 31% wanting this to start immediately.
Gallup's director, Frank Newport, sums up the results today: "Taken together, it is perhaps fair to say that a significant majority of Americans would like the United States to either withdraw troops from Iraq or make specific plans to do so, although there is no majority demand that troops be withdrawn immediately."
The poll was unusual in that rather than give respondents a list of options, it allowed them to respond in their own words. Gallup then grouped the varied responses and labelled them with a common theme.
Results showed that almost 1 in 3 want to "pull the troops out and come home," as soon as possible. About the same number seem to wish for a gradual pullout. The remaining one-third back the present course or want to "finish what we started."
Even Democratic war-hawks like Hillary, Biden and Lieberman are being challenged and hopefully, eventually marginalized. I am happy to see that there are anti-war protesters where ever Hillary speaks. That is quite a change from her first run for the Senate. The war-hawks ignore not just what Democrats are saying but what the American people are saying to their own political peril.
So only 1/3 favors cut and run.Results showed that almost 1 in 3 want to "pull the troops out and come home," as soon as possible. About the same number seem to wish for a gradual pullout. The remaining one-third back the present course or want to "finish what we started."
Count me among the remaining 1/3 described above.
Gradual pullout is cut and run. It's not like any poltician, even John Murtha, want a immediate complete withdrawal.
I suppose it depends on what is meant by "gradual", but they'll start coming home by October, so i don't know what we're on about.
Liberman is going down.
But he's determined to give the GOP the seat by running independant. As if his war stance didn't already brand him as a GOP collaborator.Liberman is going down.
"Cut and run", according to Bushco, is anyone with any desire to pull our troops out any time, so yes 2/3 do favor "Cut and run".
Nce spin by Editor and Publisher
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Gradual pullout means cut and run? Okay dan, if you and E & P say so.
Every plan involves a timetable, including any hypothetical one to withdraw from Iraq. If you have no timetable, it's not a plan, it's a concept or an idea. Since anyone who proposes a timetable is a "cut and runner", the Bush Administration either wants to ALSO withdraw without a plan (since they refuse any talk of a timetable, and well, they attacked that way), or never withdraw at all.
Don't you believe that for a minute. Us Democrats want out of their
NOW! 100 percent. And don't you ever forget it.
Nancy makes me want to puke!
i have never seen a group of people more obsessed with polls
The only folks more obsessed with polls than the Bush administration are the Democrats running against it.
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Despite the rhetoric, the WH doesn't wipe its ass unless the polls say it's OK.
both of you are full of .. bush is one of the few presidents who doesn't base his decisions on polls
LMFAO.
You crack me up.
And obviously Clinton never governed his decisions by polls either.
All politicians, without exception, and whatever else they may say, base their actions on the polls. That would include both Clinton AND Bush.
I never said it didn't include ex, just calling Dan on his typical Bush is the only one that does it crap.
My response wasn't necessarily to you alone, AHF, it was to those tools who think that Bush ignores the polls because that's what he says he does.
When you are confronted with bad poll numbers, you have three choices:
1) ignore it. political suicide, for you and your party.
2) change your position.
3) spin it and get the public to change theirs.
Bushco has been pretty effective with number 3 for most of their tenure, but if they think they can wrap the Iraq dog turd in frosting and serve it at a wedding, they and the rest of the GOP are going to get their heads snapped back in November.
It's political suicide unless your buddies own the e-vote. This is why we must insure that our elections are even more secure and reliable than the vote in Mexico, which they are currently not.1) ignore it. political suicide, for you and your party.
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GOD..you are a ing IDIOT!
I'm surprised you even still get internet service with all those black helicopters flying overhead.
Yeah, as in California's case, another good start would be not letting precinct bosses take their e-voting machines home with them the night before the election. Exit Polls have always been really accurate; I don't care what the resident wing bats say. If the election differs greatly from the exit polls you can be assured there were probably some shenanigans going on in the election.
Or in Larado's case, you keep paper ballots locked in a bank until you need them. South Texas has no credibility to stand on in this issue.even victoria keeps paper copies
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