Posted on 12/16/2003 3:41:41 AM PST by JohnHuang2
'WE GOT HIM!'
Bush approval jumps 10%
after nabbing Saddam
8 in 10 Americans reject notion
of withdrawing troops from Iraq
Posted: December 16, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
President George W. Bush's approval rating experienced a major jump after the dramatic weekend capture of Saddam Hussein, reveal multiple weekend polls.
A Washington Post-ABC News poll conducted Sunday showed the public's assessment of Bush's management of the Iraq conflict jumped to 58 percent, up from 48 percent last month. The poll, conducted by phone among 506 randomly selected adults nationwide, pegged Bush's overall job-approval rating at 57 percent, up 4 points up from last week.
When called by the pollsters Sunday, 95 percent of respondents had heard of the capture of Saddam.
In answer to the question "Which punishment would you prefer for Saddam if he is convicted of war crimes: the death penalty, or life in prison with no chance of parole?" 60 percent chose the death penalty.
A CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll also conducted Sunday showed that eight out of 10 Americans considered capturing Saddam to have been a "major achievement," according to UPI. Although nine out of 10 respondents agreed major challenges lay ahead for the U.S. in Iraq, 80 percent rejected the idea that, with Saddam now in custody, American forces should be withdrawn from Iraq.
Most revealing of all, perhaps, was a weekend NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
Although NBC and the Wall Street Journal had planned on conducting the survey over Saturday and Sunday, when news broke of the dramatic capture of Saddam, pollsters tabulated all of Saturday's responses, 512 in all. The next day they conducted an identical poll, with the same number of respondents, only after news of the capture of the former Iraqi tyrant. Thus, as MSNBC reported, the poll was able to gauge public sentiment immediately before and immediately after the good news from Baghdad.
Specifically, when asked whether they thought America was headed in the right direction a question regarded as a prime indicator of a leader's level of support 41 percent of voters answered in the affirmative. That was Saturday. On Sunday, after learning of the successful acquisition of the bearded, disoriented "Butcher of Baghdad," the percentage of voters believing America was headed in the right direction had jumped to 56 percent.
Also, in the NBC/WSJ poll, Bush's personal approval rating jumped 6 percent overnight, from 52 percent to 58 percent.
Interesting that 5% hadn't heard. The news broke early in the morning eastern time. A person would have had to be home with no television or radio on, and nobody calling on the phone. Each of my three kids had called me by 9am to ask if I had heard the news.
I was out shovelling snow early Sunday afternoon. My neighbor pulled into his driveway, and I started talking about Hussein's capture. He looked at me strange, and I found out he hadn't yet heard. He'd been camping in the woods, and had his CD player on in the truck. :-)
Bet every RAT and DUmmy have their cyanide pills ready. Any more good news, will spell total doom for the left.
If the sons, daughters or other family members of these folks had been raped, tortured, murdered or tossed from a roof top, most of them would be singing a different tune.
One of my conclusions is that while an atrocity (say against a little child) committed on one person generally results in disbelief, horror and outrage in American communities, hundreds of thousands of humans tortured, gassed and slaughtered is more difficult for people to grasp. It just becomes a blur and is shunted to the back of the brain.
Plus, if annihilations don't take place in their own back yard, a certain percentage of people couldn't care less if it happens elsewhere.
Not even the 3000 of our own killed en masse in NYC elicits feelings of revenge in some of the more brain-dead in this country.
But, among these benumbed people, there are some who would demand the death penalty for anyone who killed their cat.
Leni
Interesting. I didn't know 5% of our population lives in a spider hole....
Thats a great way to put it. May their sunk ship become cover for fish and crabs, decompose and be forgotten. I dont see how they could win 2004 now.
Are you sure about that?
13 October 1988
BERNARD SHAW: By agreement between the candidates, the first question goes to Gov. Dukakis. You have two minutes to respond. Governor, if Kitty Dukakis were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer?
DUKAKIS: No, I don't, Bernard. And I think you know that I've opposed the death penalty during all of my life. I don't see any evidence that it's a deterrent, and I think there are better and more effective ways to deal with violent crime. We've done so in my own state. And it's one of the reasons why we have had the biggest drop in crime of any industrial state in America; why we have the lowest murder rate of any industrial state in America. But we have work to do in this nation. We have work to do to fight a real war, not a phony war, against drugs. And that's something I want to lead, something we haven't had over the course of the past many years, even though the Vice President has been at least allegedly in charge of that war. We have much to do to step up that war, to double the number of drug enforcement agents, to fight both here and abroad, to work with our neighbors in this hemisphere. And I want to call a hemispheric summit just as soon after the 20th of January as possible to fight that war. But we also have to deal with drug education prevention here at home. And that's one of the things that I hope I can lead personally as the President of the United States. We've had great success in my own state. And we've reached out to young people and their families and been able to help them by beginning drug education and prevention in the early elementary grades. So we can fight this war, and we can win this war. And we can do so in a way that marshals our forces, that provides real support for state and local law enforcement officers who have not been getting that support, and do it in a way which will bring down violence in this nation, will help our youngsters to stay away from drugs, will stop this avalanche of drugs that's pouring into the country, and will make it possible for our kids and our families to grow up in safe and secure and decent neighborhoods.
SHAW: Mr. Vice President, your one-minute rebuttal.
BUSH: Well, a lot of what this campaign is about, it seems to me Bernie, goes to the question of values. And here I do have, on this particular question, a big difference with my opponent. You see, I do believe that some crimes are so heinous, so brutal, so outrageous, and I'd say particularly those that result in the death of a police officer, for those real brutal crimes, I do believe in the death penalty, and I think it is a deterrent, and I believe we need it. And I'm glad that the Congress moved on this drug bill and have finally called for that related to these narcotics drug kingpins. And so we just have an honest difference of opinion: I support it and he doesn't.
She had heard, but didn't know who he was. She thought Iraq was something they use in Arkansas to rake leaves.
This, in answer to a question about what you would do if your wife was raped and murdered... Amazing.
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