WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A majority of Americans disapprove of President Bush's handling of the war in Iraq but the public is far from demanding an immediate withdrawal, according to an ABC News Washington Post poll published on Monday...
For the first time, a majority of Americans said the administration "intentionally misled" the public in going to war and nearly 75 percent said it underestimated the challenges involved, the poll of 1,004 adults found...
On Iraq specifically, 56 percent said they disapproved of Bush's work and 62 percent said they thought the United States had gotten bogged down in Iraq...
A majority also rejected Vice President Dick Cheney's claim that he Iraqi insurgency is "in its last throes." Fifty-three percent said they thought they insurgency was holding steady in strength and 24 percent believed it was getting stronger...
The ABC News Washington Post poll found that a record 57 percent also now say the administration intentionally exaggerated its prewar evidence that Iraq possessed nuclear, chemical or biological weapons...
Despite growing criticism of the administration's performance, nearly 60 percent of those polled said they believe U.S. forces should remain in place until civil order is restored in Iraq....
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The World Today - Tuesday, 28 June , 2005 12:34:00 Reporter: Michael Vincent
Overnight Iraqi Prime Minister – Ibrahim al-Jaafari told reporters in London that he thought security could be restored in his country within two years.
Just 24 hours earlier though, the US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, was suggesting it could take more than a decade for the civil conflict to be brought under control...
Then there were the comments by the United States' Vice-President, Dick Cheney, who last week predicted that the insurgency was in its "last throes" and would be over during President Bush's current term in office....
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Purl Girl - Iraq is not the problem. China and Mexico are. They are the sleeping giants. China is taking our manufacturing and Mexico is flooding our ecomony with constant drain. You cannot substain or grow an economy without manufacturing jobs. Actually, all the terrorist have to do, is sit back and watch. We are destroying ourselves at a fast rate.........
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The Usa is attracting terrorists to Iraq, so we dont have to fight them on our soil. A top general of the US military stated that on Iraq television. How would that make an Iraqi feel? Bush also has repeated that incredibly incensitive statment.
At the begining of the opperation to remove Sadam Housein from power, Air strikes took out his troops, by the thousands, those were just men, young and old, who hapened to be in the Iraqi army. The wives of those men, their children, and familys will have a hard time understanding why president Bush could not have tried other means for removing Mr. Housein from power. Never did the bush admin deny him his oil funds, they would defer to the un resolutions when it would benefit the us. or a few billionair friends of his. Bush and Cheney actualy allowed us companys to do buisness with the man who tried to kill his father. That says alot. Cheneys company Haliburton was doing buisness with sadam up until the day the bombs started dropping. 60% of Iraqi Oil was purchased by America...!! We funded his Dictatorship!!! That most likely affected the deaths of us soldiers. Stop blaming the left wing sissys for problems caused by conservatives and christians not standing up for what is right. Bush made all Iraqi natural resorces government controled, Is Bush a communist? mm more likely a facist. that garentees another dictatorship for iraq, pupets for the bush family, The ruling party wont fund opposing political parties, and its over, then the next carismatic control freak rises to the top, and the people have there next Sadam. Bush and you blind repulican idiots thanks for nuthin...
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Well, quess what, we control the Presidency, Senate, House, The Supreme court, Judicial, the military and governerships in some of the biggest states.........Hmmmmmmmmm who's the idiot?
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my personal opinion is that we have created more terrorists than we are destroying....
i still can't believe everything that al-jazeera has been getting away with putting out... they are supposedly the ONLY free-speech media outlet in the mid-east....
there is something else "bothering" me too...
there are a lot of terrorist attacks on moslems...
i have been trying to find some INTELLIGENT analysis on how this helps the terrorist causes....
don't hand me that "stupid, and crazy " crap either...they are definitely sociopaths but they have good organization and funding so they aren't stupid..just crazy.....
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aren't they really simply following the most recent/historical model? those guys in Uruguay...? maybe I'm off, but S America., for sure..the idea was to make life so miserable under the governing powers that the peeps revolted over lack of know-how/protection/frustration ???
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Actually no. The only source for saying the majority of Americans think the Iraq war has made us safer are hardliner Republican sources. I suppose if you never bother with paying attention, you can swallow that crap. Just consider the source....Bush said it is the case! Isn't that a darn near guarantee that it isn't? Look at his record.....when he ain't lying he's confused.
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quote:Originally posted by tuck: Purl Girl - Iraq is not the problem. China and Mexico are. They are the sleeping giants. China is taking our manufacturing and Mexico is flooding our ecomony with constant drain. You cannot substain or grow an economy without manufacturing jobs. Actually, all the terrorist have to do, is sit back and watch. We are destroying ourselves at a fast rate.........
Tuck, you are so right about China and Mexico it is scary. And it may be even possible that China has military in South America as I type this post.
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I met a young lady recently that was given a job at Walmart over another, because she had a college degree. The other lady had actual experience with the work, but no degree, She'll be cutting cloth and ribbons and selling paterns and needles. Excellent use of that biology degree.
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Mexico's a problem...live with it daily. But it's NOTHING compared to the China problem. In 15 years? Meskins will still be looking for cheap rent here...
But their ultimate landlord will be "inscrutable"...
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