58 percent want Iraq withdrawal by 2008 or sooner

So we should just keep sending more troops till more and more get killed? When does it end?

 

Silly Liberal. Sending more troops heightens the safety and security of all troops there.

 

Sure it does. It also costs more money. Taxpayer dollars. here's a cheaper option....bring the troops home! Then maybe someone can fix the 5 or so potholes I drive through everyday....

 

MAC, this poll contradicts what every major poll has been showing for weeks and months. Its widely known that poll respondents answers will differ based on how a question is asked. Isnt it interesting that CNN does not include the exact questions that were asked?

Just because people are not currently in favor of the war doesnt mean they want to pull out immediately. To the contrary, approx 80% of Americans do not favor pulling out of Iraq right now. The Public Opinion Strategies Poll also indicates that even though likely voters attitudes toward the Iraq War think the country is going in the wrong direction (67%) and President Bush is doing a poor job (60%), and that Iraq will never be a stable democracy (60%) most favor finishing the job (57%) and that the Iraq war is a key part in the war on terror (57%).

NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll March 2-5, 2007. Only 17% say pull out immediately.
Public Opinion Strategies Poll Feb 5-7, 2007. Only 17% say pull out immediately.
Opinion Dynamics Poll. Jan. 30-31, 2007. Only 12% say pull out immediately.

Every poll Ive seen regarding pulling out of Iraq immediately is so largely opposed it isnt even a close argument. The idea of pulling back from Iraq is not where the majority of Americans are. This CNN poll sounds like a sham IMHO.

Furthermore, most other polls show Americans are against the Dems in Congress implementing an anti war funding bill. (USA Today/Gallup Poll. March 2-4, 2007. 61% opposed)

I personally dont like an organization like CNN to come out with some poll and say its what America wants. Go over the pollingreport.com or Publicopinionstrategies.com and look at "ALL" the different polls and the "exact" questions that were asked.

 

Actually "CNN" doesn't do the polling. It was done by Opinion Research Corp. They're been around since the 30's. George Gallup was one of the founding members. To be fair this poll does not address pulling out "immediately." It says 2008.

 

Which makes the CNN story about the poll a complete spin job of gargantuan proportion. The story uses the term "immediately" in the very first sentence and in the bullet headline.

No wonder CNN is lagging badly in the ratings. Its crap like this that makes once loyal viewers like myself turn them off. pffftt...

 

its a range. now--------2008 =by 2008

 

There were potholes in need of fixin'