AP Poll: Few expect victory in Iraq (dissatifaction of Bush's handling of Iraq @71%)

[maddezmom]

By NANCY BENAC, Associated Press Writer
5 minutes ago



WASHINGTON - Americans are overwhelmingly resigned to something less than clear-cut victory in Iraq and growing numbers doubt the country will achieve a stable, democratic government no matter how the U.S. gets out, according to an AP poll.

At the same time, dissatisfaction with President Bush's handling of Iraq has climbed to an alltime high of 71 percent. The latest AP-Ipsos poll, taken as a bipartisan commission was releasing its recommendations for a new course in Iraq, found that just 27 percent of Americans approved of Bush's handling of Iraq, down from his previous low of 31 percent in November.

"Support is continuing to erode and there's no particular reason to think it can be turned back," said John Mueller, an Ohio State University political scientist and author of "War, Presidents and Public Opinion." Mueller said that once people "drop off the bandwagon, it's unlikely they'll say 'I'm for it again.' Once they're off, they're off."

Even so, Americans are not necessarily intent on getting all U.S. troops out right away, the poll indicated. The survey found strong support for a two-year timetable if that's what it took to get U.S. troops out. Seventy-one percent said they would favor a two-year timeline from now until sometime in 2008, but when people are asked instead about a six-month timeline for withdrawal that number drops to 60 percent.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061208/ap_on_re_us/iraq_ap_poll_1

[Hekate]

1. Dropping like a stone; Bush's numbers are in free-fall

Congress too -- what is it now? 13%? Guess that one-party government, permanent majority plan isn't working out so well for the Repubs.

:popcorn:

Hekate

[ClintonTyree]

2. Who ARE that 29% that still think he's doing a great job?

:wtf: Must be his family and all of the no-bid contractors making piles of money from death, and I'm not at all sure of his family. What sort of brain-dead moron could possibly think Bush is a great leader, a man of vision, an honest hard working diplomat that cares about everyone in this country? Again, WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?

[0rganism]

4. Those are the 29% who will be the core support of the GOP in 2008 elections

You saw some of them on TV two years ago, wearing the purple heart bandages at the republican convention.
When you take that 29% and stick on another 10% for so-called "moderate swing voters" and touch-screen vote swappers, you get the turnout numbers we have to beat in order to win in 2008.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

7. Halliburton has more than 100,000 employees

I'm just thinking out loud here...

[0rganism]

3. 60% favor withdrawal in 6 months -- bigger than bush's 'mandate', right?

but no, the article says 71% is merely "strong support" and when "that number drops to 60%", it's clearly just a few fringe kooks and hippy drug addicts letting their freak flag fly.

[boobooday]

5. I love America

Fool me, can't get fooled again . . .

Waking up late is better than never!

Too bad nobody listened to the HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of us who tried to stop this before it got started.

[wishlist]

6. Ironically, Bush said yesterday that Americans need a 'wake-up call'

The man is in deep denial but I'm afraid he is being enabled in his entrenchment by Tony Blair and John McCain's disagreements with the ISG report.

[Amonester]

8. Maybe they're thinking about issuing a "new" .pdf document

into which they'll write something like "absent some catastrophic catalyzing event –like a new September Eleven" in it, and then MIHOP.

[Jcrowley]

9. Bush's Iraq approval at new low- 27%

Bush's Iraq approval at new low

WASHINGTON President Bush's approval rating on Iraq has slumped to a new low.
Just 27 percent of those questioned in a new A-P-Ipsos poll approve of the way he's handling the war. At the same time, dissatisfaction has climbed to an all-time high of 71 percent.

Ohio State University's John Mueller, who's an authority on presidents and public opinion, says Bush's support is continuing to erode and there no reason to think it can be turned around.

The poll also indicates nearly two-thirds of the American people do not think Iraq is going to end up with a stable, democratic government. Only nine percent think the Iraq war will end with a clear-cut victory.

http://www.wwaytv3.com/Global/story.asp?s=5786844

[Aviation Pro]

10. At what point....

...will the earnest, and now in the minority, Senators from the RepubliCON party make their way to the White House and the Naval Observatory to tell the criminals get out?

[The Count]

11. Earnest Republicans? Is that like the tooth fairy?

[aquart]

12. You're confusing earnest with honest.

So have they.

[DoYouEverWonder]

13. Hopefully

not until after Jan 4th.

[Judi Lynn]

14. Support eroding,no reason to think it can't be turned around. (That's the OLD way!)

With _{George W. Bush,} they'll merely find someway to smear the entire REST of the world until he appears unnaturally better off than you'd expect.

It used to be so easy for the Republicans to label everyone who disagreed with their murderous, greedy rampage as "terrorist appeasers," etc. Now that our numbers are growing, they're going to have to resort to something stupendous to explain it all.

[goforit]

15. Time to frog march them out of office!