72% of Americans Favor War; Bush approval rating 71%

CNN/USAToday/Gallup ^ | 03/24/03 | Frank Newport

[m1-lightning]

I'm curious if the numbers will rise after the POW footage.

[Diddle E. Squat]

My comment is not directed at you, but all the networks doing daily polling. Who cares? Why does it matter, do we really need constant monitoring of opinion during the many routine ups and downs of war? Its like polling every 5 during an operation or dental filling. So if someone gets doubts when the drilling of teeth starts to hurt, should it then be stopped, ever left to fester, infect, and rot?

[ohioWfan]

What's wonderful about this is that he's doing this in spite of opposition both here and abroad, and in spite of sinking poll numbers.

Our Commander in Chief has taken this action because he swore an oath to defend the Constitution, to protect the American people, and to do what is right.

I thank the Lord for him every day.

[justshe]

Thanks for the ping!

What cheers me additionally, is even WITH the biased coverage of the anti-american protestors from the networks/CNN/MSNBC......the American populace is NOT buying into it. America is waking up.

Must be a VERY black day in Dem-ville. Moans,groans, and gnashing of teeth.

[finnman69]

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/873985/posts

[hchutch]

The only place the LEft's credibility is going is down the drain...

[Libertina]

Don't worry, the liberal media will do their best to get these support numbers down. ;) After 5 DAYS, the war is already a "Viet Nam-like quagmire." Peter Jennings looked as if he were going to a funeral for the first, successful heady days of US power. I should expect him to be much perked up tonight, in light of our POWs and US casualties.

[Guenevere]

#3..Amen sister!

[m1-lightning]

After 5 DAYS, the war is already a "Viet Nam-like quagmire".

If we have reach Baghdad in the next day or two, I believe more people will start supporting it. Many do look at it like Vietnam but they forget that we're driving at high speeds through the desert, not crawling on our belly's in the jungle.

[ohioWfan]

I wonder how many decades it's going to take before people stop comparing every military action to the Viet Nam 'quagmire?'

In Afghanistan, it was after 21 days, and now it's already being said after 5?? Sheesh!!

[Wphile]

Great news and Blair's numbers are up in England too!

His numbers will skyrocket even further once we win this darn thing. That is if people stop watching the news - sheesh...already talking about a quagmire, etc. It's been 5 days!! Unbelievable.

God Bless President Bush.

[BunnySlippers]

[ohioWfan]

Hey....that's not a bad number for women. Maybe the 'soccer mom' is becoming a thing of the past.....

[GeorgiaYankee]

I saw a poll that showed support for Pres Bush by party:

Republicans 93%
Democrats 50%

will the Demonrat party faithful ever support Pres Bush?

[RetiredArmy]

I am sick and tired of hearing everything referred to as the Vietnam-type quagmire. The troops DID NOT lose in Vietnam. The stupid politicals in D.C. lost the Vietnam war. We pounded the NVA and VC in the field. We lost a little over 58,000 troops. They lost in the hundreds of thousands or more. Their losses were much worse than ours.

I told my wife last night that there is no way we could do World War II today, not in today's world. The losses we had on D-Day, at the Battle of the Bulge or Iwo Jima. We lost thousands on D-Day. We lost thousands on Iwo. The TV and radio coverage today makes it impossible to fight without a damned camera in your face or behind your back. If D-Day were shown on TV today, tomorrow the entire country would have been yelling for FDR to pull them all off the beach and demanding that we give Europe to the Nazi's.

There is simply no way that you can fight a war and expect not to have people wounded or killed. That is the decision going in. Do we go in full bore or do we not. America today doesn't seem to understand the real world. It is too busy with TV, sports, movies, play things, cars, money, gambling, cheating on someone with another person's spouse, silly games, plain crap. Too many people in this country take far, far too much for granted. It is like, hey, I am an American. I get it for free. Well, it is not free. It cost. The payment is blood.

While I grieve for the losses, I expected it. I knew we could not fight a war with flash and bang and just think they would throw down their weapons. They know if we win, they die. They know if they want to surrender, Saddam will kill them. So, they fight to try to live. I expected it to be hard. Actually, if we could keep the danged aircraft from crashing and running into each other, and people could read a danged map, our actual losses would not be so bad.

[Tamaqua]

You're right on. 300 miles in 5 days with less than 2 dozen KIA? Even FOX is acting like the redcoats are about to burn the Whitehouse! As I used to say to my sailors in deck division on the USS Clark - this is a dirty dangerous job made more so because it revolves around explosives, flamables, no sleep and bad food - In the summer of 1988, the Navy alone lost almost 200 sailors and we were at peace!All news media and all Americans need to "Sack Up!".

[Redcloak]

72% of Americans Favor War; Bush approval rating 71%

Tom Daschle is deeply saddened.

[ohioWfan]

Hear! Hear! to you both.....

This has been an amazing military feat so far, that I'm thinking should not be on TV 24/7.

Even Fox wants to keep it's ratings, I guess. Better to turn it off.

[GraniteStateConservative]

I expect a drop. People go wobbly when things don't go perfectly in a plan.

[floriduh voter]

The press is really hammering Cent. Com. and the Pentagon. They not only are rude but they are asking inappropriate and insulting questions. No different than usual.