(CBS/NYT) Poll: Most Support Iraq Timetable

[sabra]

Source: CBS

CBS/NYT Poll: 61% Say Congress Shouldn't Fund War Without Timetable For Withdrawal

(CBS) While Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a Democratic bid to force a vote on U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq, a CBS News/New York Times poll finds a majority of Americans think Congress should not continue to fund the war unless a timetable for withdrawal is put in place.

Sixty-one percent of Americans surveyed think the war should be funded only if there's a timetable for withdrawal. Twenty-eight percent say funding should be continued without a timetable, while 8 percent think all funding for the war should be blocked, no matter what.

There's a sharp political divide on the funding issue. Most Democrats (77 percent) and Independents (60 percent) think funding should be tied to a pullout timetable, while more than half of Republicans (53 percent) think funding for war should continue unfettered.

Americans remain extremely dissatisfied with the course of the war. Seventy-four percent, about the same number as last month, say the war is going badly, including 45 percent who say it's going very badly.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/07/18/opinion/polls/main3071073.shtml

[endarkenment]

1. Note that the article cited does not explicitly state the questions

asked. When that is done I immediately suspect the poll. I like that 61% say no funding without a timetable for withdrawal, but it remains an open question how many americans support Get Out of Iraq Now rather than Lets Hang Out for a Few More Friedman Units and Then Bug Out.

[humbled_opinion]

2. IMHO

Bush is really posturing this September report from his in country croney's, so that he can give us the Surge worked routine, i.e., the Iraqis are trained and we will start withdrawing troops in the coming months based on Commanders assesments... etc, etc,... This is his face saving tactic...

Note there will never be a full withdraw... Basing talk will start next....

[anotherCTliberal]

3. Who the hell did the poll? 49% Repuke, 8% Dem, 22% Indie think the war is going well? OMFG

I agree with you. There will never be full withdrawal. Remember we can't leave before we "win". IIRC there already several permanent bases there already.