Gallup: Americans Feel We Are 'Worse Off' Because of Iraq War

sabra

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Thu Jun-15-06 11:13 AM
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Gallup: Americans Feel We Are 'Worse Off' Because of Iraq War

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Gallup: Americans Feel We Are 'Worse Off' Because of Iraq War

NEW YORK While most public opinion polls this week show a slight bounce in President Bush's approval ratings, the most recent Gallup Poll, taken June 9 to 11, reveals that Americans continue to have a negative view of what the war has really accomplished for Americans.

Gallup asked Americans if the war in Iraq had made things better off, the same, or worse off for six entities: the American people, the Iraqi people, the strength and preparedness of the U.S. military, the war on terrorism, the prospects for democracy in the Middle East, and the image of the United States around the world.

The result for that final category was the most clearcut: 6 in 10 Americans said the image of the U.S. was "worse off," with only 11% saying "better off."

Significantly, 42% said that the people of our country were worse off, with 26% saying better off and 31% "the same. Gallup called this "a decidedly negative tilt in attitudes about the impact of the war on the home front." While in this category, as in all others, Republicans had a more positive views, still only 48% wuld say that Americans were "better off" because of the war.

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UpInArms

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Thu Jun-15-06 11:33 AM
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1. Karl Kraus said it best:

"War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off."

and, who was Karl Kraus, you ask?

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kkraus.htm

Austrian satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright, and poet. Karl Kraus is considered the foremost satirists of the 20th century in German language. His most important play is the pacifist Die letzten Tage der Menschheit (1915-1919), which rose from his reaction to World War I. For his rarely performed magnum opus Kraus was three times nominated by French academicians for a Nobel Prize in Literature.
"In every situation, in joy or sadness, outwardly and inwardly, a woman needs the mirror." (from Dicta and Contradicta, 2001)

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From 1904 onward, Kraus's satire became more moral than political, and eventually he whole-heartedly defended the unpolitical or "natural" man. "Politics," Kraus said, "is what a man does in order to conceal what he is and what he himself does not know." During World War I Kraus was one of the most fierce critics of the militaristic atmosphere, a decade before Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (1929). From the earlier stages of the war, Kraus rejected the propaganda of the Axis. When Hofmannsthal had high hopes for an Axis victory, Kraus commented Hofmannsthal's patriotic writing sarcastically.

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Tanuki

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Thu Jun-15-06 02:41 PM
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3. Thanks

I was not familiar with Karl Kraus...I will have to check him out!:hi:

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daleo

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Thu Jun-15-06 05:20 PM
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5. He's pretty subtle for this day and age, it seems

But good.

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CountAllVotes

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Thu Jun-15-06 12:17 PM
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2. well duh

:dem: :kick:

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warrens

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Thu Jun-15-06 02:50 PM
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4. 26% BETTER OFF????

Man, there are some stupid morons in this world. We've really got to find a way to keep people that stupid out of voting booths. They'll believe ANYTHING.

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VegasWolf

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Thu Jun-15-06 05:23 PM
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6. What is even scarier is that some of us are probably genetically linked

to some of the 26%.

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Thickasabrick

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Thu Jun-15-06 05:41 PM
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7. In reality - some people are better off. Military contractors,

mercenaries, and people who own stock in companies that thrive during wartime. This might represent 1-2% of the better off people, the rest are just retarded.

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