Only 22% polled accept Bush's argument that Iraq occupation is preventing terror in the U.S. (More)

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Over 60% of Americans Support Withdrawal from Iraq

May 9, 2007 at 12:30 PM
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According to a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll released today, over 60% of Americans support withdrawal from Iraq. The poll also reports that most don’t believe the continued American presence in Iraq will protect the U.S. from new terrorist attacks or prevent an escalation of the Iraqi civil war.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-05-08-iraq-poll_N.htm

"Six in 10 support setting a timetable for withdrawal and sticking to it regardless of what's happening in Iraq; 36% say the United States should keep troops in Iraq until the situation there improves. Most Americans expect things to get worse in Iraq and the region in any case...

"Only 22% of Americans accept the administration's argument that U.S. forces in Iraq are preventing new terror attacks on the United States; 17% say the troop presence is making those attacks more likely. Another 58% say the U.S. deployment doesn't affect it either way...In the poll, three in four Americans support benchmarks that Iraq would have to meet to continue receiving economic and military assistance."

In other news, more than half the members of Iraq’s parliament signed a legislative petition yesterday calling on the United States to set a timetable for withdrawal.

Read the great coverage by AlterNet here: http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/51624/


http://www.democrats.org/a/2007/05/over_60_of_amer.php

[Old and In the Way]

1. Mother Nature conspires to undermine the terror message.

Hard to worry about a few crazy people when you got tornadoes leveling whole towns or hurricanes drowning an entire city. We ought to be defending against the real enemy, global warming, instead of supporting the neo-con/Big Oil fantasy of a GWOT to deliver $ to the corporate bottom line.

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2. I don't think Americans are as fearful as Bush is

or wants us to be

[Seabiscuit]

3. So 22% equates to how many tens of millions of utterly hopeless maroons?

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5. yes

yes

[Seabiscuit]

6. Ahh.... just the answer I was looking for! :)

[Seabiscuit]

4. So 22% equates to how many tens of millions of utterly hopeless maroons?

[Johonny]

7. That's not good

His explanation has reached the belief in aliens level.