Gallup: 55% Now Back U.S. Pullout from Iraq Within a Year

Editor & Publisher ^ | 08/03/2006 | E&P Staff

[LM_Guy]

NEW YORK A new Gallup poll released today revealed another upward bump in the number of Amercians who now want a complete U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq in the next 12 months.

That number now stands at 55%, with 19% supporting immediate withdrawal and another 36% wanting it done by August 2007.

"While the percentage of Americans who favor a withdrawal of all U.S. troops either now or within a year is not a supermajority, it is a majority, suggesting that the Democratic leadership is speaking to an issue that resonates with many Americans," Frank Newport, director of the Gallup Poll, writes today.

Another majority, 54%, now say that the U.S. invasion in 2003 was a "mistake."

The partisan divided remains wide on the withdrawal question, with 77% of Democrats wanting U.S. troops out in a year and only 28% of Republicans. Independents back a 12-month pullout at 56%.

Gallup polled 1,002 adult Americans at the very end of July.

[Raycpa]

I back a pull out today....if we were done.

[Jameison]

Not gonna happen.
No one runs a war on "polls".
We leave Iraq when we have won, and not a second earlier.

[mass55th]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but all this talk about a Civil War to me is a bunch of hooey. I believe that Saddam was waging a Civil War long before we entered into the fray. It was the Sunnis against the Shiites with Saddam sending out his goon squads to round up people to execute and bury in mass graves. It's still the Sunnis and the Shiites, but now they blow each other up, or shoot each other outright. At least the families are able to get what's left of their loved ones and know where they are buried. They didn't have that luxery under Saddam.

[edzo4]

Gallup polled 1,002 adults

55% of 1,002 is 551

so let me put it in context for you,

551 people said we should pull out now
62,040,606 voted for Bush

GET IT?

[gondramB]

>.Who gives a crap. Everyone over there is a volunteer. They believe in what they are trying to do and so do I. This isn't Vietname. There is NO draft.<<


It can matter in this sense, misleading or misguided polls could pressure those in congress with (let's put this politely) less determination to do the right thing, to do something foolish.

Although the President is commander in chief, congress is able to make the government look divided, and thus weaker to our enemies.

[LM_Guy]

The democrats cut and run policy will be easily exposed and defeated.

I hope your right, but I am starting to have my doubts that they (the republicans) will...

[DelphiUser]

This is so stupid; it all depends on how you spin the questions.

1. Would you prefer to stay in Iraq forever, stretching our troops, endangering America by not having the ability to wage war on any other front and raising taxes to pay for it.
2. Leave within the year with a Stable Government and world peace established?

Most Conservatives will not even take a poll now, I know I won’t waste my time, so you get those who support the position you are pushing (Liberals) being over represented.

The only poll that counts is on the second Tuesday of November.

[mass55th]

"Everyone over there is a volunteer. "

You notice, nobody bothers to ask the troops what they want to do. I highly doubt they'd want to leave until they can get the job done.

[himno hero]

perhaps the best may be, politically incorrect, pull out today, let them and their unlimited weapons sort their shiit out and then move back in after they have spent their resources and time.

Maybe THEN they might appreciate democracy and the efforts of the US

[LM_Guy]

GET IT?

Not really... and that was 2004....what % of the voters would vote for him on Nov 2006, I bet not as many and Kerry would win in 2006 vs 2004.

[lugsoul]

"We leave Iraq when we have won"

Can you briefly state - hopefully with concrete, on-the-ground realities rather than flowery phrases - what 'when we have won' means?

[longtermmemmory]

Push Polling BS.

WANT vs Ability

I WANT them out as soon as possible, HOWEVER it is not not possible right now.

This is about as valid as asking "do you have an opinion" and then the Mediots reporting 100% of americans have opinions on the war,"as things go bad".

[lugsoul]

"The job" that needs to be done can't be done by our troops. Our troops can do "the job" of eliminating Saddam's regime. Our troops can do "the job" of hunting terrorists. But our troops can't do "the job" of creating a peaceful, pluralistic, non-threatening Iraq. They may even be an excuse for not creating such a state.

[italianquaker]

They should also poll how many of these people refer to bin laden as binnie?

[GOP_1900AD]

Americans have a problem in our DNA - we have a genetic aversion to war and making sacrifices as a nation to win it and prepare for it. It almost resulted in Hitler and Stalin (or maybe only one of them) ruling the world. We pulled one out of the fire that time. Was it our last hurrah?

[Jameison]

"Can you briefly state - hopefully with concrete, on-the-ground realities rather than flowery phrases - what 'when we have won' means?"

What is it about "have won" don't you understand again?
And exactly what is flowery about "have won"?
Did we need you to tell us when we had won in WWI, WWII, the war of independence , civil war and other wars we have fought?

[GOP_1900AD]

It's even worse, it's in our DNA. At the end of the day, we are the Hobbits. We need a Gandalf.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

POLLS!? POLLS ARE FOR STRIPPERS!

[edzo4]

i'll explain it for you then

gallup pretending that the opinion of 1,002 adults represents the entire population is BS

and if you dumbocrats want to win the election in 2006 and 2008 you should stop worrying about how many votes bush would get, he isn't running.

[Antoninus]

If you're scared, get a dog and a pair of Depends.

But for Heaven's sake, stop posting on FR until you take remedial spelling 101--or at least until someone shows you where the spell-checker is on the posting screen.