Posted on 01/18/2005 11:04:53 PM PST by churchillbuff
Shortly before Bush's inauguration for his second term in office, and after he said in an interview that the 2004 election result proved that electorate approved of his handling of the war, a Washington Post/ABC News poll showed that 55 percent of Americans felt the Iraq war was not worth fighting, against 44 percent who thought it was.
Respondents also disapproved of Bush's handling of the situation in Iraq by a 58 to 40 percent margin, and 57 percent of the 1,007 adults surveyed by telephone from January 12-16 were not confident that the upcoming elections in Iraq would lead to a stable government.
Similarly, a USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll published in the nationally distributed newspaper showed that Americans believed it was a mistake sending troops to Iraq by a 52-to-47 percent margin.
Also based on a telephone survey of 1,007 adults, taken January 14-16, the USA Today poll found that respondents were now more or less equally divided as to whether the United States should keep, increase, reduce current troops levels in Iraq.
Until September 2004, the prevailing opinion in polls was that troop levels should be maintained.
Bush also got majority disapproval ratings on a number of other issues in the Washington Post/ABC News poll: 52 percent disapproved of the way he is handling the US economy, Social Security (news - web sites) (55 percent), the budget deficit (58 percent), immigration (54 percent) and health care (51 percent).
Bush got high approval ratings for coping with terrorism (61 percent) and education (56 percent). In foreign affairs, environmental issues and taxes, respondents were divided.
However Bush's overall approval rating stood slightly higher than last month at 52 percent, and 55 percent of those surveyed said they expected him to do a better job as president during the next four years than he did in his first term.
The margin of error for both polls was plus or minus three percentage points.
And money. Lots of money.
Is that why you posted it, Neville? To show us how the left is desperately trying to wish away the results of the election? Or was it to try to recruit us over to your side; and away from our nation, our families, and our God?
HEY!!!! Bluff isn't the only female here. She's just the only female here opposed to the United States in this war.
True, but it sure is cheaper than medicine for humans!
In most cases, but not in ours. Hubby had a heart attack a few months ago, and we've spent less on doctors, hospital and medicine than we've spent at the vet in the same amount of time.
Ah! Sorry to hear that.
I hear you on that! :)
Thanks.
Didn't we just have a poll with a much bigger sample back on 11/2? What were those results? Anybody remember?
I wonder how many of the adults surveyed could find Iraq on a map?
What the Neville Chamberlain of FR forgets is:
Iraq has been on the State Department list of state's sponsoring terrorism for years, even during the 90's.
Bill Clinton's justice department obtained a federal indictment against bin Laden and cited the terrorist's connections with Saddam.
Even the Senate Intelligence Committee Reports stated that:
1. Iraq provided Al Qaeda with chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear training.
2. Direct meetings took place between senior Iraqi military officers and top al Qaeda operatives between the early 90's and 2003.
3. 78 reports from different sources provided information that Hussein's military was actively training Iraqi intelligence officers for terrorist attacks against America and American interests.
During the 90's the mainstream media wrote hundreds of articles about the world's alarm at the growing relationship between Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden. Do they think we can't look this stuff up?
There are hundreds of links below that provide evidence of the relationship that Iraq had to terrorism and to OBL/AQ specifically.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1224050/posts
I got your poll swinging!
I just read that yesterday and meant to save it to my Iraq file; thanks so much for linking it again.
Liberal men are hysterical too, Dennis.
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww...it hurts to get old. :-(
Agreed. :-)
Don't even try to confuse the poor thing with facts...you bad girl you. LOL
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