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.
crazy guy lol
To be honest I'm not happy with current bunch in Congress, however, there are more important issues than throwing a temper tantrum. Can they do better about illegal immigration yes.. Can they do better about spending yes, but there is more at stake..
If a man isn't ready to provide for his family, he shouldn't get married, and definately shouldn't have children.
[...If we don't have a country, none of the other issues matter...]
This must become our battle cry! Fight on!!!
I think the STATES are taking care of the abortion question..and ultimately the SCOTUS...
NOW, if you are talking a POTUS that will fill seats on the SCOTUS...then that is one question..
But, on a personal level...I don't think a candidate that is hard core against abortion will have that much impact...look at Bush....he can't even get the courts to uphold the law against partial-birth abortion...and we KNOW he hates that.
Hey Rush, tell him England calls>
If you really think that a vote of ONLY Republican voters would show that most Republicans support moderate non-constructionist Judges, support Gay marraige, support partial birth abortion, support abortion, and support the death penalty, then you don't know the majority of Republican voters. The result of that poll would be 70% to 80% or more in opposition of how Giuliani stands on this issues, and when against REAL candidates that support the conservative agenda on those issues, GOP voters will choose the candidate that reflects the issues which they turned into the GOP plank. If the truth is otherwise, then why did McCain, a RINO non-conservative secularist not beat Bush in 2000? Your argument defies logic, and the past 12 years of facts in how the GOP has been and currently is. Traditional social issues are the soul of the GOP, and what seperate it from the DNC, even moreso than fiscal conservative values. Are you challenging that?
I don't think the South will vote for a Italian New Yorker.
You look at Newts record in the house and tell me he's mr ideas and you look what he did for party it was his ideas that got the party this far!
"Why doesn't he let the governemnt pay for his house." LOL
Newt waltzing with Hitlery on the beaches of national healthcare still bothers me.
Amen...a vote that helps Democrats is a fool's errand.
there was two people in 94 that led the party all they way Newt and Rush Limbaugh
"Since Newt opined that hilaryclinton knows more about health care--"
Any program the politicians design for the 'common ones' must be used by the politicians for no less than 10 years. Then it can be presented to us. That should work out any kinks. And shut their faces up!!!
SEMINAR CALLER from land of Turban Durbin and Osama Obama.
Hey ang. Tx for the ping.
I certainly don't buy anything the NYTs is selling.
Thank you for your service.
God bless you.
Jo
Every time they say "I'm a lifelong Republican, but..." then you know. That's what they all say.
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