Gallup: 2/3 of Americans want Iraq withdrawal

[Terran1212]

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002801550

Gallup: Almost Two-Thirds Want Iraq Withdrawal

By E&P Staff

Published: July 07, 2006 11:25 AM ET

NEW YORK A new Gallup poll finds that roughly 2 in 3 Americans urge a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, with 31% wanting this to start immediately.

Gallup's director, Frank Newport, sums up the results today: "Taken together, it is perhaps fair to say that a significant majority of Americans would like the United States to either withdraw troops from Iraq or make specific plans to do so, although there is no majority demand that troops be withdrawn immediately."

The poll was unusual in that rather than give respondents a list of options, it allowed them to respond in their own words. Gallup then grouped the varied responses and labelled them with a common theme.

Results showed that almost 1 in 3 want to "pull the troops out and come home," as soon as possible. About the same number seem to wish for a gradual pullout. The remaining one-third back the present course or want to "finish what we started."

[leftchick]

1. DO YOU HEAR THAT DLC/DNC & Every DEMOCRAT running????

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT THE US OUT OF IRAQ! No permanent bases for eternal wars! OUT OF IRAQ! Send this off to all of the Senators supporting that asshat LIEberman!

[Terran1212]

2. They have some kind of ideological fixation with american foreign policy

being very, very hawkish. I don't think they care what the American people think.

It's taboo on DU to talk about this, but if Democrats don't have more liberal opposition, they'll have no non-altruistic reason to become more liberal. If they're only being challenged by far-right republicans, they have no incentive to be any more than slightly more liberal than their opposition.

[w4rma]

3. And that's why Lieberman is losing his primary battle.

Fight them in the primary.

[Terran1212]

11. The Party usually vigorously controls the primaries

It's a hard nut to crack.

[Kolesar]

6. Campaigning is much more sophisticated than that. For instance,

candidates can focus their campaign on:
1. local issues
2. developing a constituency
3. registration and get-out-the-vote

[leftchick]

7. I don't think it is so taboo anymore

It is pretty obvious that hawks like Hillary, Biden and Lieberman are being challenged and hopefully eventually marginalized. I am happy to see that there are lefty protesters where ever Hillary speaks. That is quite a change from her first run for the Senate. They ignore not just what Democrats say but what the American people are saying to their peril.

[Alacrat]

5. No Shit

The troops need to come home now! Everyone knows this except for W.(Lieberman and the rest of the repugs) Iraq can go back to the killing fields it was before we invaded, I don't care anymore,and I'm tired of our guys getting killed over there. The Iraq government can take care of themselves, and if not so what. If they want freedom, let them die for it, not us.

[DemonFighterLives]

9. Welcoome to DU!

:hi:

[LynnTheDem]

10. Iraq was not a "killing fields" before we invaded.

Sorry, but you swallowed a bit of that nasty rightwingnut koolaid. Spit and rinse immediately!

Welcome to DU. :hi:

[keta11]

16. Iraq was not the clusterf*ck it is now

when Saddam was power. The Republican invasion of 2003 is the course of the chaos. I wonder where you have been getting your news.

[llmart]

17. Welcome to DU!

Your last sentence sums it all up nicely.

[DemonFighterLives]

4. Enough damage done

Get out now!
:dem:

[onehandle]

8. We have to Stay in Iraq!

I'm addicted to the fifty cent gas prices and the many postcards of thanks we get in the mail from grateful Iraqis.

Our solders live in a oil paid for paradise and have a better chance of dying in California than in Iraq.

2 in 3 Americans just don't get it.

[Rageneau]

20. It's the photos of all those kids throwing flowers at us that I'd miss.

That, and the new spirit of democracy and brotherhood our blood and treasure have bought them.

[onehandle]

21. You said it, fellow believer!

How can two-thirds of Americans ignore the Iraq Liberation and its Total Success!?

[arewenotdemo]

12. "finish what we started"?

Do the backwash one-third mean the extermination of the Iraqi people?

Or are they still hoping Bush's vanity war will trigger the Rapture?

[Terran1212]

14. Rapture

Just to answer your question ^_^

[UDenver20]

13. An IDEAL Democrat (at this point) would say...

"My position on Iraq has changed - just like that of my constiuents. This is a representative republic; meaning that our job is to REPRESENT people, not to convince them that their opinion is wrong. If the other party would like to bury its head in the sand despite an overwhelming popular opinion - then I would be very affraid to have an "R" after my name as a candidate this fall."

But do they say it? No.

PLEASE GOD, WHY?!?!?!?

Seriously... this shit isn't all that hard.

[HockeyMom]

15. That is precisely what I want MY Senator to say

I am not holding my breath.

[Vidar]

18. No pockey money in peace.

[mwb970]

19. At least they acknowledge that smart people lean left.

As usual, the poll showed liberals and Democrats strongly backing a pullout and conservatives/Republicans urging stay-the-course. Newport writes: "Suggestions that the United States engage in some type of gradual withdrawal increase significantly as educational level increases."

[Terran1212]

22. Haha expected nt