It's the FESTIVUS poll.
48% still think the U.S. can achieve its goals (23% by sending more troops, 25% with the current number) versus 47% who say it’s impossible. That’s probably all the political cover Bush needs.
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/01/09/gallup-61-oppose-surge/
I refuse to make decisions on any issue based on media generated polls that can be so easily manipulated to obtain the results they want.
Did FDR take a poll before D-Day? Did Washington take a poll before crossing the Delaware? Of course not. Polls on this sort of question mean nothing. The average american is little informed about the issues in Iraq and unqualified to evaluate military strategy.
The media and the Democrats are allies of the terrorists. They want the United States to fail so they can blame it on Bush, thinking they will then win the White House in 2008.
I'm interested to know how they can get away with this without backing it up. Where can one find these supposed numbers?
Well, if I were the president and saw those poll numbers, I'd haul out the atomic bomb and end this war quickly, as Truman did in WWII. Truman also was vilified and so he had nothing to lose, and it freed him to do the right thing. Ending the war by roasting two Japanese cities saved thousands of our troops who would have died had we had to invade the island of Japan. I hope Pres. Bush will heed that lesson of history and will do likewise.
Meanwhile, in 1779 there were more Americans fighting for Britian in the Colonies then there were in the Continental Army. We won. They didn't so who gives a rip about polls. Americans easily turn to support our enemies and if we hang tough we will win again.
Mr. President God bless you and God bless our troops.
Americans aren't stupid. They've watched the military's hands tied, our boys prosecuted for panties on heads, and politicians making strategy.
Why would they have confidence any of this would change now?
I support the war in Iraq, and I support the war against Al Qaeda. But the White House has just not sold this war to the American public. The polls may be weighted, but they all show big numbers against the war. Part of leadership is explaining why we are fighting, and what is at stake. That just has not been done. We should have taken this conflict more seriously at the very beginning.
This appears to be a reference to the Post's bogus December poll.
Still missing the point.
These numbers can be found NOWHERE on the internet and I surmise they are fake. The "poll" link in WAPO takes you nowhere.
Is this poll fake? Yes or No???
Don't let facts get in the way of paranoia. France is the only one of the countries specifically mention that even has a Muslim population that breaks out of the low single digits.
WaPo - still working against America's best interest with fabricated information.
For the record, war is not a democratic event.
Voting in a rigged poll doesn't count.
Perhaps the latest WaPost poll was taken in the press lunchroom?
I've got "boots on the ground"....and I'll wait until I hear from the President and from him before I react or respond to any stupid WP poll.
I suggest we all do the same.
They polled the people in the news room along with the delivery boy who walked in...guess who it was that supported the "surge".