Poll: Most Americans Say War Not Worth It, 64% Say Results Of War Not Worth American Lives Lost

[maddezmom]

Source: CBS

CBS/AP) One the eve of the five-year anniversary of the start of the war with Iraq, Americans continue to think the results of the war have not been worth the loss of American lives and the other costs of attacking Iraq, according to a new CBS News poll.

Today 29 percent of Americans say the results of the war were worth it; 64 percent say they were not.

In August 2003, less than six months after the beginning of the war, Americans were divided as the whether or not the results of the war were worth it. Opinion reached a low point in March 2006 - when only one in four Americans said the war was worth the costs.

Support today breaks heavily along partisan lines. Sixty-two percent of Republicans say the results of the war with Iraq were worth the costs, while only 10 percent of Democrats and 25 percent of Independents agree. In fact, belief among Republicans that the war was worth it has risen 11 points since March 2006, while support among Democrats and Independents has remained largely the same.



Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/18/iraq/main3946663.shtml

[onehandle]

1. Results implies that something good came out of it.

There were no results.

[LynnTheDem]

2. Illegally invading and slaughtering people who had done nothing whatsofuckingever

against us...NOT WORTH IT???!!

Wow...the majority of Americans aren't the stupidest MFers on the planet.

That's good to know.

[tuckessee]

4. But 29% are the stupidest MF'ers on the planet.

Plus, a sizeable percentage of the 64% who say it's not worth it because of American lives lost probably don't give a flip about Iraqi civilian deaths or the legitimacy of the war.

They'd fully support the illegal war if only we could kill Iraqis at no cost to us.

[DCKit]

13. Only if you're assuming the polling company didn't just pick a random number.

Few of these polls make any sense and who can believe, after six years of death, destruction, inflation and economic tragedy, that even 29% of our fellow citizens believe anything the malAdmistration has done is in the interest of the people? I call bullshit.

[Winterblues]

3. Not worth the loss of "American lives" but probably worth it in Iraqi lives.

This is one of the things that really shames me as an American. Others just don't matter. Only Americans have "value"..

[BlueManDude]

6. If a bomb explodes in the marketplace killing 50 Iraqis

most Americans don't really care and it has ZERO political impact in the USA. It's just another senseless act of cruelty perpetrated by animals whose motivations we can't even begin to understand. Most Americans aren't cruel people but we get desensitized to this kind of slaughter.

Rove and the politicos at the WH understand this. The only thing that matters is American casualties.

[BlueManDude]

5. Yet many of these same folks will vote for John McCain.

It's amazing really. They deserve what they get.

[Baby Snooks]

7. The Good Germans

"Sixty-two percent of Republicans say the results of the war with Iraq were worth the costs, while only 10 percent of Democrats and 25 percent of Independents agree. In fact, belief among Republicans that the war was worth it has risen 11 points since March 2006, while support among Democrats and Independents has remained largely the same."

The Republicans want to avoid the reality of what good Germans they have been. But then some Democrats do as well. Someone should ask Madeline Albright if she still thinks it was "worth it" as well. Which would probably be a good indication of whether Hillary Clinton does.

The Bushes will write their own legacy. But history will write an entirely different one. And unfortunately the Clintons will be part of the legacy that history writes.

[depakid]

12. Propaganda viewers

Fox "news," CNN and hate radio can make people believe- and will reinforce all sorts of absurd things.

[ryanmuegge]

8. All of that cheap gas made it worth it, yo.

[Quantess]

9. Only 64%?

There are some stubborn Americans out there.

[smoogatz]

10. Cheney: "So?"

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/19/cheney-poll-iraq/

[Pogue.Mahone]

11. How's this for a convoluted response?

i support our presence in iraq but the results aren't worth the sacrifice...

the reason i say this is that the reason for going to war, to establish a democratic regime in the heart of the enemy, was a daring strategic move and the initial execution was brilliant (although to be honest, iraq wasn't exactly a first-tier opponent) but the inertia, naivete, gross incompetence, and blatant corruption of the bush administration and their corporate cronies blew it. shrubya put all his loyalty and confidence in a conceited cunt who decided he knew more than the military leaders he led and thought he could wage peace on a shoestring budget. it took them four years and four thousand u.s. lives to figure out they were worng.

now, all we're doing is trying to fix what we broke. we've lost this battle against global islamic fundamentalist terrorism and the best we can hope for is more or less a draw; to leave iraq a mess of warring factions too focused on killing each other to bother with us.

man, i can't believe my brothers and sisters fought and bled and died in iraq and this is the outcome they get...

[guitar man]

14. that wasn't the reason we were given for going

We were lied to about a nonexistent WMD threat with "booga booga Don't let the smoking gun be a mushroom cloud" bullshit in the wake of 9-11. Only after WMD failed to turn up did the reason magically morph into establishing a democratic regime there.

Saddam was a brutal, murdering bastard, but him and his regime posed no threat to us and we never had any business trying to go over there and try to nation build in a place where we were not wanted. Now we are stuck with the bill for it in lost lives, wasted treasure and lost respect on the world stage. Our great-grandchildren will still be paying for this tragedy long after we are gone.

[Karenina]

16. I feel so sorry for you.

Whatever blowback you receive as a result of the ignorance and arrogance in your life, reflected in your post, you will have richly earned. It gives me no pleasure to state that.

[fascisthunter]

15. Just Heard NPR Say a Pew Poll Found Most Americans Felt the Surge was Working

I'd like to know who these Pew folks are and who they were polling.... I say BS to both the poll and NPR.

[calimary]

17. Kick!

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