60 Percent Of US Think Iraq War Was Mistake, Want Timetable
How will this play out in the run for the White House?
USATODAY…The survey finds the 40% of Americans who want to stay the course in Iraq are relatively united — confident the invasion was justified and the consequences of withdrawing too soon disastrous.
However, the 60% who call the invasion a mistake and want to set a timetable to get out are fractured into four distinct groups, a USA TODAY analysis of public opinion toward the war concludes.
They include those who want U.S. troops out immediately and others, like Tease, who argue America has an obligation to improve Iraq’s stability before going. Such divisions have complicated efforts in Congress to force a change in President Bush’s war policy….
Only 60%? With all the BS coming out of MSM everyday, makes you wonder how much the MSM still matters?
60% of who? USA Today readers?
I think that 60% # is solid!
I never read USA today and always thought the war was a stupid idea.
David Petraeus: Iraqis Not Making “Sufficient Progress”
What is next?
HP-With a Senate appearance looming to explain the success of President Bush’s surge in Iraq, Gen. David Petreaus has offered his starkest commentary yet on the state of Iraq reconciliation, reports the Washington Post:
Petraeus, who is preparing to testify to Congress next month on the Iraq war, said in an interview that “no one” in the U.S. and Iraqi governments “feels that there has been sufficient progress by any means in the area of national reconciliation,” or in the provision of basic public services.
The general’s comments appeared to be his sternest to date on Iraqis’ failure to achieve political reconciliation. In February, following the passage of laws on the budget, provincial elections and an amnesty for certain detainees, Petraeus was more encouraging. “The passage of the three laws today showed that the Iraqi leaders are now taking advantage of the opportunity that coalition and Iraqi troopers fought so hard to provide,” he said at the time.
60%.
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Well, there go McCain’s chances!
60% is probably on the low side!
ps. And I don’t read U.S.A Today either.