Poll: Most Americans feel vulnerable (unprecedented 57% majority)

[sabra]

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-08-08-pollvulnerable_x.htm

Poll: Most Americans feel vulnerable

WASHINGTON — American attitudes toward the war in Iraq continue to sour in the wake of last week's surge in U.S. troop deaths, a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll shows.

An unprecedented 57% majority say the war has made the United States more vulnerable to terrorism. The Bush administration has long argued that the key justification for invading Iraq was to make the United States safer from terrorist attacks. A new low, 34%, say the war has made the country safer.

The poll of 1,004 adults, taken Friday through Sunday, also finds that one in three say the United States should withdraw all troops from Iraq, another new high. The proportion who support maintaining troop levels or sending more troops also rose a bit, to 41%.

G. Terry Madonna, a pollster at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., says support for the war is eroding in large part because the public sees no end in sight to U.S. military involvement.

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[shantipriya]

1. Americans feel vulnerable!

Where the hell were these idiots last November? SOB's!!!

[emulatorloo]

2. They were embracing the Bushbots who said "John Kerry wont keep you safe!"

you do not know how angry this is making me. . .

[Miss Chybil]

3. I thought Bush was the only one who could keep us safe?

No matter we were already attacked on his watch. I thought he was THE ONE. What's changed? I mean we are still fighting them over there, so we don't have to fight them here, right? And, isn't Bush still against abortion? What's happening?

[Imagevision]

4. I feel less secure and confident with the present US. Government

Iraq-Afganistan, this President favors big business and is killing it's own people.

[Lerkfish]

5. its now down to that core 33%

that we all speculate is the KKK-like white theofascists supporters of Bush that would support him even if he cracked open the heads of young children on live television and ate their brains while they scream in agony.

[indepat]

6. The public sees no end in sight because no end is in sight

[Lerkfish]

8. precisely. "permanent" means permanent, when it comes to bases.

[firefox]

7. Who is going to protect me from my government

I am not worried about terrorists. I am worried about my government.

[bunny planet]

9. Exactly my thoughts firefox. It's the * crime family I'm afraid of.

[Iowa]

24. Yes!

Our government is no longer Of the people, By the people, and For the people. It has been turned against the people.

I would rather run the minimal risk of injury by some fanatic, than run a very high risk of being enslaved and impoverished by corporatists.

I would rather be free and afraid, than secure and restrained.

I would rather allow dangerous people to roam among us, than to be safe and relinquish my privacy.

All we have lost and are yet to lose... it's not worth it... not even close. Yet no one has asked the people what they prefer.

[deadparrot]

10. Freefall mode.

Watch your backs.

[NeoConsSuck]

11. Poll: Most Americans feel vulnerable

An unprecedented 57% majority say the war has made the United States more vulnerable to terrorism. The Bush administration has long argued that the key justification for invading Iraq was to make the United States safer from terrorist attacks. A new low, 34%, say the war has made the country safer.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-08-08-pollvulnerable_x.htm


Only need ONE Paragraph, and one big WE TOLD YOU SO!!!

[Mikimouse]

12. In addiction circles, we argue that pain is a great motivator...

Perhaps there will be some results for the deliberately ignorant fools who wanted this cretin in office.

[Erika]

14. I too am bitter against W supporters

They were a party to selling our country down the river.

They let emotion rule over logic and now we're all paying for it dearly and will for years to come.

[Mikimouse]

15. Sadly enough, and I don't even believe that it was their...

own honest emotions that they were using. they were rather using the emotions constructed for them by the various misrepresentations of the media and theose who promote themselves as America's 'truth detectors'. They all know who they are, and i hope that they go to their ends urinating on themselves in fear.

[Erika]

16. They made a bad choice by not doing their homework

We should check all sources including the world wires to ge informed. Those who just depend on Faux/Bushco news, Limbaugh, etc may have been duped, but it was their fault when they voted on the ballot.

[Mikimouse]

17. We are in agreement completely...I include in my anger the...

propagandists who care not one whit about anyone or anything but themselves, and by doing what they do, they manage to convince those who are intellectually unarmed that white is black and lies are truth. I am thoroughly disgusted with the whole media business, and even more saddened by the fact that so many people are so easily 'taken in' by what many of us here see as obvious lies and distortions of reality. Peace to you, friend, I apologize for the increased rancor in the posts, I am more on-edge than usual.

[Erika]

18. Peace to you also

We are all on edge because of the lack of a leader who cares about this country one whit. Many conservative now also feel this way.

[The_Casual_Observer]

13. The world is safer without Saddam

:sarcasm:

[warrens]

19. There was a guy on NPR, I think the author of Freakonomics...

Who was basically saying, no one other than the wealthy and people with a lot of home equity are going to be able to retire. That's not as bad is it sounds (I never planned on retiring anyway), but until you find a way to solve the problem, that's a lot of anxiety.

Me, I think we'll get a law that allows you to work part-time and draw SS benefits (imagine, you'll be paying into the system at the same time) and I with negative population growth, at least among educated, skilled labor, companies are going to have to make accomodations for older workers. But until you actually have that part time job and SS benefits, you GOTTA be uneasy.

[Erika]

20. Insurance and medical benefits are a huge issue

[NeoConsSuck]

21. Crossing the Financial Finish Line on fumes..

or I will be. I have 14 years left, and I'm in the tech field. Yes, if I make it to the finish line, I'll be OK. But that's assuming I make it. There are extremely few tech jobs in my area. At my age, if I lost my job, the chances of me getting re-hired in the tech in my area are close to zilch.

[WhiteTara]

22. kick

:kick:

[BlueIris]

23. And again.

Gee, thanks, George. Bang-up job so far.