Poll: Americans disapprove of Bush's Iraq veto

Source: CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A majority of the U.S. public disapproves of President Bush's decision to veto a war spending bill that called for U.S. troops to leave Iraq in 2008, according to a CNN poll released Tuesday.

The poll found that 54 percent of Americans opposed Bush's May 1 veto, while 44 percent backed the president's decision to kill the $124 billion bill.

Now that the veto has been cast, 57 percent of Americans said they want Congress to send another spending bill with a timetable for withdrawal back to the White House, the poll found -- but 61 percent would support a new bill that dropped the timetables in favor of benchmarks for the Iraqi government to meet to maintain American support. (Full results )

While it found that more Americans believe Congress, rather than the president, should be responsible for setting policy in Iraq, the survey may give the Democratic leadership some pause. The percentage of people saying Democratic control of Congress is good for the country dropped from 59 percent in a March poll to 51 percent now.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2007/05/poll-americans-disapprove-of-bushs-iraq.html

If they cannot override a veto, or even if they can they should start impeachment proceedings immediately

Attacking a country based on a lie is a BIG DEAL

this benchmarks thing is the stupidest idea ever.

they're stretch marks..har, har....

Wallah! A benchmark only matters if it has a timeline. They're figuratively fighting over semantics while our troops and all the Iraqi civilians caught in the crossfire are literally dying to get this occupation over with.

The more Bush delays, the more Americans will die.
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America is Un-American, says Bush.

Nice.

is on the table. That's what Americans want, and the Dem congress needs to get on with it. The whole damned country knows bush & cheney are guilty of lies and war crimes, and should be impeached and removed from office.

:kick::kick::kick:

44% of the people approve of the veto, are you really hurting him?

Now the Dems are re-writing a war funding bill into something that Bush will sign. In other words, he won. For chrisssakes! Why even bother to write another bill? Just say, “You want to fund the war, there’s the bill we have passed already. Sign the goddam thing!” But our Dems have a long-standing tradition of having NO BALLS. So because of reasons like this, the net effect of Democrats or Republicans being in charge of congress is just more of the same.

that is what I take from this. The Dems can get their numbers back up (59% is really high) by sending W a bill with timetables-just change them by one day or so.

with this whole Iraq mess, I wonder if its such a good idea to bring all the troops home when we have an officer corps that blindly carries out Bush's every whim. Those military officers over in Iraq wearing their pistol in a shoulder holster over their uniform look like two-bit gangsters to me and I don't trust 'em.

After everything we've been through - 44% choose partisanship over common sense. That's the real problem in this country.

Which says clearly to me that Americans are virtually split down the middle on this issue.

I'm just glad that I spend most of my time with people against the war. Otherwise, I think I'd be getting into a lot of fights.