By 4 to 1 margin, Americans think Iraq war increases threat of terrorism

[DeepModem Mom]

CBS: Poll: Many Americans Feel Less Safe
Five Years After 9/11, Many Feel Terror Threat Has Grown
NEW YORK, Sept. 6, 2006

(CBS) Do Americans feel safer now than before 9/11? For many, the answer is no, according to a CBS News/New York Times poll.

Fifty-four percent of Americans say they generally feel safe, but 46 percent say they feel somewhat uneasy or in danger.

Compared with five years ago, 39 percent of Americans say they feel less safe now, compared with only 14 percent who say they feel safer. Forty-six percent say they feel the same.

More also say the threat of terrorism has grown since 9/11 than said so a year ago. Forty-one percent say the threat has increased since the attacks, an 11 percent jump from last year. Just 14 percent say the threat has decreased, while 43 percent say the threat has not changed....

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Also, by a four-to-one margin (48 percent to 12 percent), Americans think the war in Iraq has made the threat of terrorism against the United States worse rather than better....

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/06/opinion/polls/main1975940.shtml

[babylonsister]

1. Add me, add me! nt

[DeepModem Mom]

2. a.m. kick

[Pachamama]

3. We are more hated in the world than ever before & far less safe!

Thank you George W. Bush! 9/11 happened on YOUR WATCH and instead of making us safer, we are less safe, are occupying other nations and going into debt while the US infrastructure here at home is falling apart and we have no money to re-build!

Are our borders safer? NO
Are our ports safer? NO
Are we better off than we were 5 years ago? NO

The only thing he has been successful at doing is making sure the rich paid less taxes and got wealthier and that our national debt is out of control. That and making us less safe.