U.S. soldiers approach a suspect house Monday about 60 miles north of Baghdad.
Posted on 03/13/2007 10:20:51 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Less than half of Americans think the United States can win the war in Iraq, according to a CNN poll released Tuesday.
Forty-six percent said the United States could not win the war in Iraq.
And although 46 percent also said the United States still could win, the results mark first time since the war began four years ago that a majority of Americans said the United States is not capable of winning.
An even smaller percentage, 37 percent, said the United States will in fact win the war in Iraq; 54 percent said it will not. An all-time low of 29 percent said things were going well in Iraq.
Fifty-four percent of Americans said the Bush administration deliberately misled Americans about whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction before the U.S.-led invasion.
Nearly six in 10 of those polled want to see U.S. troops leave Iraq either immediately or within a year. In addition, more people would prefer Congress to run U.S. policy in Iraq than President Bush.
The CNN poll was conducted Friday through Sunday by Opinion Research Corp. Pollsters interviewed 1,027 adults for the survey, which had a sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Though support for Bush's decision to dispatch additional troops to Iraq grew to 37 percent -- up 5 percent from a mid-January poll -- 52 percent said Congress should block funding for the new deployment. Forty-three percent opposed such a move.
Bush announced in January he was deploying another 21,500 U.S. troops to Iraq to crack down on the country's sectarian warfare and the Sunni Arab insurgency in the country's west.
The White House approved the deployment of another 4,400 support troops over the weekend, largely to handle an expected increase in the number of Iraqi prisoners.
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U.S. soldiers approach a suspect house Monday about 60 miles north of Baghdad.
( Less than half of Americans think U.S. can win in Iraq ) .... that's because the MSM and Dems have the sheeple convinced that we can't win in Iraq
What does that mean exactly, "the US can win in Iraq." What is winning? What, for that matter, is losing? This isn't a football game. These are all nebulous, media-driven concepts without any definition. I suppose everyone is just supposed to predict what the ultimate mass media verdict will be, in which case, I'm surprised anyone at all thinks we will "win."
How presumptuous of CNN to think that their little poll represents the minds of the American people. It just represents the opinion of CNN poll voters.
We won the major combat phase in record time. The larger struggle against Islamofascist terror - in which Iraq is merely the hottest, not the only, battlefield - will go on for a long, long time.
I think it is possible that we will have troops in Iraq as long after the end of major combat operations as we have had in Germany and Korea.
We already won the war there. Saddam is removed and his army decimated. So are they talking about winning the war for democracy in Iraq?
Yea, I know, there must be a number of terrorists in Iraq.
So then we must be there continuing the war on terror. If that's case, and if we lose the war on terror, it looks like at least half of the Americans polled are earger to give up the war on terror to become slaves of islam.
If that is not the case, and we're just remaining to stop them from killing each other in hopes of creating a democracy amongst savages, then I think we should reconsider our position.
You took the words right out of my keyboard.
I tell the Iraqis that when they see the Golden Arches go up in Baghdad and a Starbucks on every major street, they will know the war is over. ;-)
We already won in Iraq. Now it's up to the Iraqis to take over. To hear a Iraq vet tell it, he/she is proud of what they've done there, and want to complete the mission. Many have signed up to redeploy there. The MSM has it all wrong, and does not speak for the majority of Americans, IMHO.
The same "Less than Half of Americans" who voted for Kerry.
Consider this, technically we didn't "win" in Korea either.
Millions of South Koreans live in freedom today as a result of us holding our ground - and not losing.
Terrorism is just a tactic, a tactic which is effective only upon those personally affected by the terrorist act, UNLESS that act is reported and magnified and discussed and fretted about and forced into the conciousness of millions of people thousands of miles away from the scene of the act. Terrorism depends upon the media for its effectiveness.
Propaganda is a component of psychological operations, which fall under the umbrella of information operations. Counter propaganda is a tactical psyops mission to protect the troops from the effects of enemy propaganda, but strategic counter propaganda to mitigate the effects of enemy propaganda on domestic target audiences is against the law. Our military psychological operators can't help us. The success of the enemy's partial regime change last November means the law will not be changed soon.
Who does strategic counter propaganda for American target audiences?
Mark
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