(AP/Ipsos) Poll: Majority says war in Iraq a mistake

Bakersfield Californian ^ | 6/24/05 | AP

[jjmcgo]

Keep pushing those polls, undermining the military and our commander in chief, media fifth-columnists.
Meanwhile, you keep selling fewer and fewer smaller papers. Maybe that's the real poll result you should be thinking about.

[Right_at_RiceU]

The MSM is doing a great job at helping the terrorists defeat America at home.
Maybe if they actually reported rather than state opinion...

[cripplecreek]

Polls..... ppphhhttt

[Conspiracy Guy]

Majority put Clinton in office for two terms.

[DTogo]

There have been mistakes, as in all wars, but the war itself was not a mistake, IMHO.

DTogo: suburban, male Republican.

[warchild9]

All the polls agree with this one.

As I've said elsewhere, the war is tipping. It can go over the edge of the jihadis launch a Tetlike offensive and show the world they are more than just a scattered bunch of killers.

[over3Owithabrain]

I too would be more in favor of Bush's handling of the war if he took the gloves off a bit more.

[etcetera]

Over half of Americans? Nobody asked me....

[COEXERJ145]

Ipsos is at it again.

Breakdown is:

50% Democrat

40% Republican

8% Independent

2% Refused (to identify)

[oldleft]

"Given the choice of keeping troops in until the situation has stabilized or bringing troops home immediately, six in 10 said they want troops to stay and help stabilize Iraq. "

Why isn't this the headline?

[COEXERJ145]

Are you just a natural pessimist or do you have to work at it?

[rwfromkansas]

sample percentage:

"50% Democrat
40% Republican"

[Soul Seeker]

So in otherwords the MSM pumped propaganda of doubt but STILL they don't want to cut and run? So they STILL support the President's policy and not kennedy's?

Even with the nice rigging of party I.D. AP/IPSOS they pulled off here?

[IL Republican]

Clinton never had a majority thanks to Perot!!!

[kristinn]

Clinton never won a majority of the popular vote in the 1992 (43%) and 1996 (49%) presidential elections.

[warchild9]

I'm a realist. Television rules the world, and television is telling the boobs that the war is already lost.

I realize that it's being slowly won in Iraq proper, but it's the "slowly" that's important. Americans are notorious for being impatient, and unless certain steps are taken, the war will be lost here at home. It's gone on too long. Unfortunately, those "steps" require amplification of the military effort, which will NEVER go over well here at home, not with the media concentrating on losses and not gains.

History teaches that all war is psychology, bending the will of your enemy to match your own. The killing of terrorists is secondary. Body counts don't count. Television coverage does. That's the lesson of Viet Nam. (Oops! I used the VN term!)

[slowhand520]

If you believe that you never believed in the effort to begin with. The MSM isn't fooling anyone with their over sampled polls. You come here in Tucson and almost everyone will tell you we are doing the right thing. The only polls that show lack of support are the NYTimes, CBS and this one. You have fallen for a media trap. If a poll of 1100 people gets you depressed you should just put your head in the sand.

[NormsRevenge]

lol

maybe we can call thse polls that pop up all the time something like..

pollamity.. as in ..

A new pollamity was loosed by the MSM'Polls'R'our news today and every day/'Coalition of the witless' on the public in an attempt to suborn support for the War in Iraq

[Williams]

Agree with what? The majority know we need to stay and finish the job. You're picking up a slight majority with buyer's regret. Does it occur to anybody that 70% supported the war when we went to war. Getting people to say stuff like it "wasn't worth it" lacks meaning at this point. People oppose the handling of the war for all kinds of stupid reasons. Some want the place nuked. Mostly it's noise caused by media BS.

The only important response is the majority opposing a pullout. That pertains to the current decision at hand.