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calteacherguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-08-07 11:52 PM
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60% of Americans oppose requiring all troops to be withdrawn by March, 2008.
Edited on Wed May-09-07 12:02 AM by calteacherguy
There are a lot of other interesting results in this poll...such as 57% favor a bill requiring the U.S. to "start" (how fast the poll does not say) withdrawing all troops by a specific date, and 61% favoring benchmarks with no date certain for starting withdrawl.

41% of Americans agree with our Majority leader Reid that "the war is lost." 55% disagree.

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/images/05/08/rel6d.pdf
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-08-07 11:57 PM
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1. People are queasy about setting definite dates, and frankly, so am I.
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Erika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 12:04 AM
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5. Do you have a family member serving on his third tour
at age 21?
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calteacherguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 12:04 AM
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6. No I do not. nt
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 12:10 AM
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8. My husband is an Air Force officer, and he has been deployed
to the Middle East twice in three years. He only spent a brief amount of that time in Iraq, but next deployment we won't be so lucky, I predict.
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sanskritwarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-11-07 12:17 AM
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13. I am serving my 3rd Iraq tour at 33,
My fifth war zone tour at 33 if you count Bosnia and Kosovo in the late 90's........

My seventh overseas tour at 33 if you count my two tours in Korea in 2ID.

What's your point?
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sanskritwarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-11-07 12:23 AM
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14. Is your family member
Army or Marines........
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Erika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-08-07 11:59 PM
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2. The U.S. is sick of this war
Where we wish to win, we know a war that was deceitful to start with, has little chance of success. No one with a conscience can sleep well knowing the innocent Iraqis we killed.
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Erika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 12:02 AM
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3. How many U.S. troops deaths would you consider acceptable?
We're now at 3,380.
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calteacherguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 12:02 AM
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4. None. nt
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Erika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 12:07 AM
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7. You might check www.rasmussenreports.com
and it is rightwing. We've had enough of this so called war. Iraq never was a danger to us and we are killing thousands of Iraqis. That is what is sinking into Americans. Slowly, but it is coming.
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calteacherguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 12:13 AM
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9. Here's a poll from March.
Edited on Wed May-09-07 12:14 AM by calteacherguy
Not as recent, and the questions are different than the CNN poll.

Fifty-four percent (54%) now believe the U.S. mission in Iraq will ultimately be deemed a failure, which is unchanged from last month. There are almost as many short-term pessimists, with 49% expecting the situation in Iraq to worsen over the next six months. Only 28% think things will improve during that period.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/despite_slightly_more_optimism_about_war_on_terror_54_still_believe_iraq_mission_will_be_judged_a_failure
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David__77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 12:48 AM
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10. The majority will only acknowledge defeat when it's too late.
They'll only acknowledge it when President Sadr proclaims the country free from US/UK influence.
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 09:44 AM
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11. Your title doesn't really reflect the question that 60% opposed.
Q. 21 One proposal would not provide additional funds for US troops in Iraq and would require the US to withdraw all its troops by March 2008. Do you favor or oppose that bill?

Favor 39%
Oppose 60%
No Opinion 2%

I think this is more a reflection of cutting off funding completely before the troops are out of Iraq, than it is setting a timeline (March 2008) for withdrawal.
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 02:51 PM
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12. Republican's Can't Bring Themselves to SAY - War is Lost
they know it, but I bet when asked in poll, they can't betray party.
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dave_p Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-11-07 12:37 AM
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15. The 60% weren't opposing March '08 withdrawal
They were oppositng a combination of no additional funding and the March deadline.

That's hardly surprising, as most probably haven't heard a case why defunding might be tbe only way of getting withdrawal. I'm actually impressed that 39% were in favor at this stage.
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