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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (199927)9/3/2004 10:27:13 AM
From: Alighieri  Read Replies (1) of 1574070
 
Most Americans do.

Another distortion. These are the current figures according to Gallop polls.

6. Public opinion has turned slightly more supportive of U.S. involvement in Iraq.

Fifty-one percent of Americans now say that the situation in Iraq was worth going to war over. In early May, that number was 44%.

Similarly, the two most recent Gallup Polls have shown that about 50% of Americans believe that the U.S. involvement in Iraq was not a mistake. That is up from three polls in late June and early July when only about 45% thought that sending troops to Iraq was not a mistake, and the "mistake" number was up to 54%.

It's clear that the feeling of Americans is ambivalent and closely tied to the current events in iraq. The election and other news (the swifties for lies for example) have successfully drowned out the iraq situation. We are inching to 1K soldiers killed and 7K wounded, yet daily deaths barely make the news anymore. It saddens me to think that 1K of our best have been lost to a cause so many conservatives have aknowledged as a blunder. Even Fox commentators are talkng about iraq as a mistake and describing the prez as looking for a way outta there. It is also clear that the initial mission, which you describe as a hunt for American security from saddam's threat is a joke of a claim....as evidenced by the shifting rationale of the right wingers and neocons. Do you plan to read buchanan's upcoming book?

Al
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