Gallup poll finds public split on Iraq (49% calling for a timetable)

[sabra]

http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=222999&cat=World

Gallup poll finds public split on Iraq

A new Gallup Poll finds that U.S. voters are almost evenly split on setting a timetable for withdrawing from Iraq.

The Gallup Organization polled about 500 people with 49 percent calling for a timetable and 47 percent saying that U.S. forces should remain in Iraq until the country's goals are met. Those who favor a timetable were asked whether the troops should come home in six months -- 28 percent -- or longer -- 21 percent.

Only 19 percent think that Iraq will have a democratic and stable government within a year while 75 percent predict there will not be one. Respondents were equally split on whether the country will eventually have a democratic stable government with 46 percent saying yes and the same percentage no.

The public is also split on whether the war was justified with 50 percent describing it as a mistake and 47 percent disagreeing. On whether the war has been worth the cost, 52 percent say no and 46 percent yes.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

1. How on earth . . .

. . . could it be split on the justification of this chaotic bloodbath?

Jesus-Christ-on-a-trailer-hitch.

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[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

2. 47% Of Americans Still Retarded....

And that's not really being fair to retarded people.

[yellowdogmi]

3. Any poll that mentions a timetable is dishonest.

It is a framed word to scew the answering. Part of the problem of vietnam was that politicians at home made policy for the soldiers on the ground. Any time table also falls under that heading. While I agree we need to bring them home demanding a time table makes it look like we did not learn the lessons of our past. It plays into the repukes hands. Then * get's to say we are politicizing the war and report that he is against a timetable. Right now their only time table is home by election day. IMO