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.

[mewzilla]

That true of most americans about almost any country on the map, not just Iraq.

So why give a rat's patootie about what people who couldn't find Iraq on a map think? That was my only point :)

[oceanview]

because the votes of those dummies, count just as much as everyone elses.

[lugsoul]

Now see, that is an answer. mew, any idea how long you think that is gonna take?

[lugsoul]

You have put comments in quotes that aren't in my posts. You have accused me - falsely and blatantly - of making anti-Bush comments and some kind of 'we can't win' comments - and you can't point to those in my posts, either. You are a bald-faced liar.

[mewzilla]

Now see, that is an answer. mew, any idea how long you think that is gonna take?

As long as it takes. Patience is a virtue :)

[lugsoul]

So glad you enjoy takiya, liar. Do you still sport a convert beard?

[lugsoul]

You didn't hear me clamoring for an immediate pullout. But the question is pertinent, because American blood and treasure will be spilled there for 'as long as it takes.'

[mewzilla]

Don't get me wrong. I know that what we've done is given the people in Iraq a choice. We can't make them choose wisely or quickly :) But if it takes some time, so be it. A democratic Iraq is worth the investment.

[lugsoul]

"your unsustaninalble positions"

Name one, and the number of the post in which I took it.

I don't need one of your lunatic diatribes. Just see if you can name one of the 'unsustaninalble positions' you delusionally believe you are successfully combating.

[lugsoul]

And if they choose something other than a democratic Iraq?

[mewzilla]

Lug, our own revolution took, what, seven years? Our Civil War took four. How big a hurry are you in? :)

[lugsoul]

It is admittedly selfish, but I have far more patience for the expenditure of our blood and treasure for those causes than for the Islamic Republic of Iraq.

[mewzilla]

As long as they don't export their self-destructiveness outside their borders, that's their problem.

But lug, these folks risked life and limb to exercise their right to vote. Repeatedly. People willing to do that deserve some patience, don't you think? :)

[lugsoul]

When their self-destructiveness, even within their own borders, costs the lives of US soldiers and costs us a small fortune, they are exporting it outside their own borders.

[mewzilla]

Lug, Rome wasn't built in a day. Neither are democracies.

[lugsoul]

Last I heard, their elected leaders were praising Hezb'allah.

I'm not sure I have much more concern for them than I do for the elected leaders of the Palestinian Authority.

[jpsb]

"The public relations/communications effort of this White House is one of the worst ever, and I can't figure out why that's the case."

I agree and I can explain it. The Bush administration hasn't the slightest clue how to fight or win a war. And that is going to cost dearly, unless we elect a leader that can LEAD.

[My2Cents]

I agree. Allow me to spout heresy, but in 2002, I felt that Bush might go down in history as a great president. Today, I think he'll go down as average at best.

[Jameison]

"You have put comments in quotes that aren't in my posts"

Every reply I have put in here have been direct replies to your previous post, which I have put in italics.
And you have been hammered every single time.
You can wiggle, and slither all you want. It's not going to save ya.

". You have accused me - falsely and blatantly - of making anti-Bush comments and some kind of 'we can't win' comments - and you can't point to those in my posts, either."

Oh puleeze.
Do you suffer from Bush Derangement Syndrome? Yup.
This is classic case of the moonbat vermin like you attacking Bush through the war in Iraq.
Nothing new there.



"You are a bald-faced liar."

You are a deranged BDS suffering psychopath .But that's fine.
Clobbering the loony left is always fun.
Meanwhile, don't burst a gut.

[kabar]

John F***ing Kerry says the same thing. It worked in Vietnam--not. As Kerry said, "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?" Pulling the rug out from under this effort will not only damage us in fighting the WOT, it will seriously impact the US military and our ability to recruit people to join it.

Now is the time for leadership from both parties. Bush needs to do a better job of explaining that some of the very people we are fighting in Iraq are the same folks who attacked us on 9/11. Defeat is not an option.