Poll: Public split on Bush handling of Mideast crisis (disapprove 46-43%)

[DeepModem Mom]

CNN Poll: Public split on Bush's handling of the Mideast crisis
Friday, August 4, 2006

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Respondents to a CNN poll released Friday were nearly evenly split on President Bush's handling of the current conflict in the Middle East.

Forty-six percent of 1,047 Americans participating in the telephone poll, conducted by Opinion Research Corporation for CNN, said they disapproved of Bush's handling of the crisis, while 43 percent said they approved. Ten percent had no opinion....

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On the current Middle East conflict between Hezbollah and Israel, more than two-thirds -- 68 percent -- said their sympathies lie with Israel, compared to only 6 percent who sympathize with Hezbollah. Eleven percent said they sympathized with neither, while another 11 percent had no opinion.

Forty-one percent said they thought Israel's military reaction to the July 12 kidnapping of its soldiers by Hezbollah -- which triggered the current conflict -- was "about right," but 32 percent said it went too far.

Respondents were also split about what Israel should do now. Forty-six percent said it should continue its military campaign until Hezbollah is unable to launch attacks against it; 44 percent said Israel should agree to a cease-fire as soon as possible....

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/04/bush.poll/index.html

[LisaM]

1. What "handling" of the crisis has he done? Snort.

That's a trick question.

[IndianaGreen]

9. You took those words right out of my mouth, LisaM

When I saw the thread title in LBN the first thing that popped in my mind was "what handling?" Bush has gone missing on the Middle East since he took power in January 2001. He is now going to Crawford on vacation while the Middle East burns. Even a war criminal like Tony Blair has decided to postponed his own vacation. What's Bush's sorry ass excuse?

[patdem]

2. Not asked if their sympathies lie with Lebanon?

I do not think that poll was fair..it did not even CONSIDER Lebanon in this conflict..

[madame defarge]

3. Given that is was conducted for CNN...

I seriously wonder who the hell they called... I'd love to know the political party breakdown of who they asked.

And now that George's poll numbers are presumedly on the rise, let's see if his administration starts believing in poll numbers again...

[Frank Cannon]

4. What kind of "handling" has this idiot done?!!

Have I missed something here? The guy's been as useless as teats on a boar, as he usually is about anything!!

[panader0]

5. Which Middle Eastern crises? Iraq is a worse crises.

The casualties are much higher. Our own troops are there. WTF?

[Ezlivin]

6. Monica Lewinski did more handling than Bush ever has

And that includes himself.

[liberal N proud]

7. Handling of the crisis? what handling would that be?

[donkeyotay]

8. They should have asked a follow up question to the 46%

"Forty-six percent said it should continue its military campaign until Hezbollah is unable to launch attacks against it"

Are you willing to pay to arm Israel, reconstruct Lebanon, re-arm Israel, fight a regional war in the middle east and see Iraq go from bad to worse?

These stoopid polls that never ask people questions like "who should pay for this policy?"

[agincourt]

10. Often I wonder,

would we have this war if the Syrians had not been kicked out of Lebanon?