Poll: US will be bogged down - Iraq - 70%

[dArKeR]

With public confidence declining in President George W Bush's handling of the war in Iraq, nearly 70% of Americans feel the United States will be bogged down in the country for years without achieving its goals, a poll finds.

The Newsweek poll released on Saturday also found that nearly 6 of 10 people are concerned that the US military will be overextended should another security threat arise outside Iraq. And 7 of 10 are concerned the costs of the war will increase the deficit and hurt the economy.

The war costs the United States roughly $1bn per week.

The poll of 1 011 adults was taken on Thursday and on Friday, just after last week's suicide truck bombing at the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad that killed the top UN envoy there and at least 22 others.

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,6119,2-10-1460_1406248,00.html

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[whathappened]

1. sounds about right

if we had all the people out there with a thought in there heads about where we are going with this and what will be there when were done , it would be 100 percent

[Jacobin]

2. Only Smirk's core 30% deluded cheerleader group is

as usual out of touch with reality.

This one's gonna bite him on the ass, big time.

Smirk is going DOWN.

And its, 1, 2, 3, what're we fightin' for....don't ask me I don't give a damn...next stop is IraqNam..

[tedoll78]

3. You know who this is helping?

Dean. Denouncing this war was gutsy, risky, prophetic, and now it looks like it's paying-off in spades. Too bad that payment is tainted by the blood of our men and women.

[Jacobin]

4. Yep. Its as clear as a bell

That's what I want in a president. Someone who will stand up to idiotic nationalistic ranting and just say "no, it won't work, its not right, there's a better way".

I'm sending him money every month and hope I can give him the maximum by the end of the election cycle.

[HawkerHurricane]

5. 70% think we will be

And 30% of us know we already are.

[sushi]

6. Clyde Prestowitz, a former Reagan aide

and author of "Rogue Nation: American Unilateralism and the Failure of Good Intentions," says that the bombing of the UN building in Baghdad shows that Iraq could be another Vietnam.

"For a moment after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in April, American neo-conservatives thought they had died and gone to heaven...
...The passage of time, however, has made it clear that they should have been more cautious."

"In Vietnam, as in Iraq, the US acted nearly alone ... The Tonkin Gulf incident, which served as the pretext for the Vietnam war, eventually turned out to be as non-existent as the imminent threat of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has proven to be."

"After the first euphoric flush of victory in Iraq it quickly became apparent that US intelligence was badly flawed. Not only were there no WMD to be found, but although the populace was happy to be rid of the Iraqi dictator, it was far from thrilled with the US presence.
Because the Americans believed their own propaganda about being welcomed, they became wholly unprepared to deal with the war's aftermath."

"The US occupation of Iraq has made the country a magnet for anti-American fighters across the globe who are joining resistance forces.
It has also served as the greatest spur to recruitment that al-Qa'ida ever had. Just as in Vietnam, America has created a threat where non previously existed."

"So, the doctrine of unilateral preemption is proving a costly one. It is als unsustainable,... As Dwight Eisenhowere once said:
'In an empire on which the sun never sets, the leaders never sleep.'
George W. Bush should ponder this as he burns the midnight oil at the White House."

(Sorry, can't find a link).

[KoKo]

9. Robert Byrd warned on the Senate floor: This is another Gulf of Tonkin

Resolution. He said he voted for the first one.....in hindsite it was wrong. He would not vote for another one.

I hear nothing in the Media about Byrd's One Man Stand day after day trying to stop this on the Senate floor.

I hear nothing in the Media about the warnings of the thousands who protested for weeks in their home towns and in major cities across the US and the hundreds of thousands in Europe.

A government who doesn't listen to it's people will act alone and pay the price.......eventually.

[sushi]

10. People all over the world

have protested, not only in Europe and the US, but Bush and Blair have ignored us all. Maybe because they're so powerful. They forget that they're spending the taxpayers' money, not theirs.
I heard Ms Albright say on NBC that Bush has to tell the people how much the war in Iraq is costing them! And the senator from Arizona said the same thing after coming back from Iraq.

Senator Byrd has learnt from his mistakes. Others apparently haven't.

[Noordam]

7. Us anti-War people told them this from the begining.

nt.

[Deja Q]

8. $1bil per week? Since the pukes say it's "our money"...

Hell, I'm in debt and I have to learn to keep a budget.

How come President Apostate, Mr. Dickless Shrubbypants*, gets to continue frittering away money he claims belongs to us?!

If it is OUR money, as pukes say it is, I demand it go somewhere else!