Posted on 08/23/2006 8:52:59 AM PDT by angcat
SOME WEDNESDAY SPIN! Most in US see no tie between Iraq, terror war: poll Tue Aug 22, 10:29 PM ET A majority of Americans no longer see a link between the war in Iraq and Washington's broader anti-terrorism efforts despite President George W. Bush's insistence the two are intertwined, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll released on Tuesday. Fifty-one percent of those surveyed said the war in Iraq was separate from the U.S. government's war on terrorism. The findings were a considerable shift from polls taken in 2002 and early 2003, when a majority considered the two to be linked, The New York Times said. As recently as June, opinion was evenly split, with 41 percent on both sides of the divide. Now only 32 percent considered Iraq to be a major part of the fight against terrorism, the newspaper said. According to the poll, 46 percent said the Bush administration had concentrated too heavily on Iraq and not enough on terrorists elsewhere. Fifty-three percent said going to war in the first place was a mistake, up from 48 percent in July, The New York Times said. Bush's approval ratings remained unchanged at 36 percent. His popularity has been damaged by the unpopular war in Iraq, in which the U.S. military death toll is 2,610. As recently as Monday, Bush defended the invasion of Iraq as crucial to preventing more domestic terror attacks. "If you believe that the job of the federal government is to secure this country, it's really important for you to understand that success in Iraq is part of securing the country," Bush said during a news conference. The unpopularity of the Iraq war has many Republicans nervous about the party's chances in the November midterm elections in which Democrats are seeking to retake control of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. The Times/CBS News poll of 1,206 adults was conducted Thursday through Monday and had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
wow low numbers
Hello angcat. Thanks for the ping. Wheeeeeeeere's Johnny?
I thought the server was down for a while and I was having a panic attack.
Happy to hear Centanni and Waagi are alive. Praise God!
Check out that link in post #3
MCCain Is more then nuts
Disasta in Alaska. The R Gov is out. Is Rush talking about this yet?
Morning thread Mistress!!!
AM I the only one who found FR inaccessible for the past half hour?
You are totally correct. MCCain is totally unstable and panders too much to the media and moderates to be trustworthy. When Bush's numbers are up, he praises him. When they're down, he rips him. McCain is a but kissing brown nosing RINO.
No, and still very slow here.
That was pretty amazing. Gosh, I thought Bush wanted the hurricane victims to die, why did he make sure FEMA sent all that stuff? :)
Every time I think I could live with McCain, he pulls something like this and disappoints me again. So far, I'm "parked" with Newt...
I think it was.
your not the only one who had problems I had problems too.
No, I couldn't get on for at least 20 minutes. I was having Rush Thread withdrawal.
its a NeoCon Trick lol
Recent poll is Georgia - another Thread snippet
For the 2008 Republican Presidential Nomination whom would you support? (Republicans Only)
Rudy Giuliani 30%
John McCain 20%
Newt Gingrich 17%
Mitt Romney 6%
Bill Frist 5%
George Allen 3%
Rick Santorum 1%
George Pataki 1%
Chuck Hagel 1%
Undecided 16%
Anyone check the DUmmies to see if they were bragging about an attack on FR?
That is what I told my husband..
I said that we STILL haven't had as many troop deaths in over three years in Iraq...as we had on 9/11...
BUT, we've had almost 45,000 highway deaths in ONE year!!
Extrapolate that out...and you are at about 150,000 deaths to 2600....and the American highways don't have EIDS in them!!
FR is having server problems. I couldn't get it to work for about 20 minutes. That's why the low numbers. :)
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