Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Poll: 58% of Americans want to see an Iraq withdrawal by 2008 or sooner

CNN:

Nearly six in 10 Americans want to see U.S. troops leave Iraq either immediately or within a year, and more would rather have Congress running U.S. policy in the conflict than President Bush, according to a CNN poll out Tuesday.

Though support for Bush's decision to dispatch additional troops to Iraq grew to 37 percent -- up from 32 percent in a mid-January poll -- a slim majority of 52 percent say Congress should block funding for the new deployment.

The CNN poll was conducted Friday through Sunday by Opinion Research Corp. Pollsters interviewed 1,027 adults for the survey, which had a sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Bush announced in January that he was deploying another 21,500 U.S. troops to Iraq to crack down on the country's sectarian warfare and the Sunni Arab insurgency in the country's west.

The White House approved the deployment of another 4,400 support troops over the weekend, largely to handle an expected increase in the number of Iraqi prisoners.

The decision remains unpopular, according to the latest poll, but opposition has declined since Bush announced it. This week's survey found that 59 percent opposed the president's plan, down from 66 percent in a January 11 poll, and support for it had grown from 32 percent to 37 percent.

Tuesday's poll found most Americans support a withdrawal from Iraq, with 21 percent wanting an immediate pullout and 37 percent saying troops should be home within a year. Another 39 percent said the troops should stay in Iraq as long as needed.

They were more closely divided on the issue of funding the president's so-called "New Way Forward," with 52 percent saying Congress should block funds for additional troops and 43 percent opposing such a move.

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2 Comments:

At 2:16 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Congress running the conflict in Iraq. Those assholes can't even manage a 5 day work week and Pelosi is too concerned about what plane she gets to use. Most Democrats only care about giving my money to crack addicts for entitlements. The Republicans are just as useless. We could use Andrew Jackson or Zachary Taylor right about now.

 
At 6:10 PM, Blogger Ætheling said...

More than 58% of Americans want illegal immigration from Latin America halted, too, but Congress hasn't done much about that, either (except authorize funding to Mexico to help them secure their own southern border)

 

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