Poll: U.S. backing for troops steadfast

Yahoo/AP ^ | 6/9/06 | DONNA CASSATA

[Mr. Silverback]

Of course, a poll on Iraq conducted before the Zarqawi hit is of dubious value, but it's still interesting.

[satchmodog9]

I wonder what the poll numbers actually are if you take out all urban numbers. We all know those are lost causes. They swing so hard to the left, they are not even worth sampling.

[topher]

Imagine the thoughts of the brain-dead journalists who run CBS-NBC-ABC-NY SLIMES-TIME MAG at this poll. They expect the American people to betray the US Troops just as they do...

The Lame Stream Media just shows how lame it is and how it likes to blame the innocent for their mistakes...

[Obadiah]

ALL POLLS GENERATED BY THE MSM ARE BIASED AND A COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME. They have a framework for how they will write their "news" stories. They design a poll to get that specific response from an unsuspecting public and then the MSM uses that poll as "proof" to substantiate their predesigned and predetermined "news" stories. Anyone is a FOOL who believe the MSM polls. Ap poll...pfft.

[showme_the_Glory]

Kerry supports the troops. Murtha supports the troops. Cindy Sheehan supports the troops.

[LS]

"The survey also found that the war continues to take a toll on the public's view of Bush. Approval of the president was at 35 percent, essentially unchanged from his rating of 33 percent last month based on the poll's margin of error of 3 percentage points."

Oh really? So he could be at 41%, and this is BEFORE the Zarqari "hit?" Which means he could be in the mid-40s. I'd call that a pretty significant increase over 33%. But Will Lester won't.

[Pete]

This poll is nothing more than attempt by the MSM to justify the nonsensical and political position held by the Left that you can support the troops but not the mission.

[Mr. Silverback]

Reading your post, I thought of this:

My wife is a nurse. I gave her my support during nursing school, and she graduated with honors. I support her honorable career choice and work.

Now imagine that somebody comes to me, a person who I know desn't like her, and says, "The last five people who died in your wife's ward died because she killed them with lethal injections." now imagine that I not only buy that story instantly without seeing any evidence, but I repeat it to whoever will listen and call for my wife to be fired because these murders obviously show that her time as a nurse is a failure.

How supportive will she think I am? Oh, about as supportive as the three people you listed!

[Mr. Silverback]

Yes, but it's posted to dissect and so we can know our enemy, not because I think it's solid data.

[Mr. Silverback]

A little song for you guys...and Ms. Cassata. This video is a must-see.

Allah Pundit Zarqawi Remix

Turn it up loud, baby.

[olrtex]

Only the America-hating, left wing could find an "unusual disconnect" in the dual perceptions that (1) the alleged atrocities against Iraqi civilians by U.S. forces were isolated incidents and (2) the U.S.-led invasion was a mistake. Why would any one with a brain call that an "unusual disconnect"? I certainly don't think the invasion was a mistake; but if I did, there is no reason why that would lead me to think the alleged atrocities were not isolated. Simply amazing.

[LS]

That was great. My only regret is that we left enough of that creep to even identify.

[johnny7]

I wonder how many polled... are citizens.

[dakine]

"described the current troops as the "best we've ever had." "

Technically/intellectually I agree...but the PC nature of the military has changed some of its effectiveness

[Mr. Silverback]

Only the America-hating, left wing could find an "unusual disconnect" in the dual perceptions that (1) the alleged atrocities against Iraqi civilians by U.S. forces were isolated incidents and (2) the U.S.-led invasion was a mistake. Why would any one with a brain call that an "unusual disconnect"? I certainly don't think the invasion was a mistake; but if I did, there is no reason why that would lead me to think the alleged atrocities were not isolated. Simply amazing.

Dead on common sense.

[pleikumud]

The best "poll" is the fact that we have an all-volunteer military which is representative of the general public. What more needs to be said?

[Sacajaweau]

Hindsight polls AT THIS TIME are worthless. No one likes war. Most waiver back and forth....like good and evil.

But given the option of evil people like Saddam, Usama and al Zarqawi merging....and hitting us way beyond the 9-11 devastation, we did the right thing in going into Iraq.

Saddam was VERY, VERY close to getting out from under the UN sanctions. Saddam would have taken out all the Kurds to make room for Usama. Where did Josef go after the 1993 bombing of the towers?

[Mr. Silverback]

Smooth kills...courtesy of your United states Air Force.

[tallhappy]

The latest Associated Press-Ipsos poll found that many Americans perceive the alleged atrocities against Iraqi civilians by U.S. forces as isolated incidents while saying the U.S.-led invasion was a mistake, an unusual disconnect that sets this conflict apart from Vietnam.

This writer is making things up -- putting his own subjective impressions in an article as if they were fact.

[Just A Nobody]

That was a joke.....right?