Gallup Says 59% Now Oppose Iraq War

[ailsagirl]

Gallup’s latest poll for CNN and the USAT shows Bush stuck at a 47% approval rating. What is noteworthy in the most recent poll is:

·Bush’s disapproval rating has now climbed to 51%, which ties its highest number ever in a Gallup poll;

·Only 23% of those polled had a “great deal” of confidence in the Bush Administration’s ability to protect the country from another terrorist attack, thereby shaking to the core the “daddy protector” image that Bush had built his reelection upon;

·59% now oppose the Iraq war, the highest number Gallup has ever recorded;

This poll sample contained the following party ID breakdown:

Republicans 33.0%
Independents 31.1%
Democrats 34.2%

Short of ramping up towards another war, with either Iran or Syria as Condi’s comments seemed to indicate yesterday, and with W refusing to endorse Cheney’s assessment that the insurgency was in its “last throes”, and with Democrats adopting a strategy we called for months ago to target specific House GOP members to kill his Social Security plan, it may be a long summer for Bush, but a dangerous one for the rest of us, with $60/barrel oil.

And that’s before we find out who was helping Saddam all those years. Why does the White House not want Saddam to go on trial any time soon?

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[Terran1212]

1. And yet less than 25% of congress wants withdrawal

Democracy just doesn't work in this country. It's too much out of the people's hands.

The US wanted to leave vietnam in 1969, but our very corrupt government wouldn't allow it.


A repeat of the same fatal flaw is in progress....

[ailsagirl]

3. Aren't the representatives supposed to REPRESENT their

constituents' beliefs??

:crazy:

[Terran1212]

7. In THEORY yes, but the US government despises Democracy

They don't wouldn't want to uproot the powers that be in Washington (like AIPAC, for one)....

[ailsagirl]

9. But WE put them in office. Or vote them out.

Of course, now that the voting process has been corrupted,
I guess I can't say that anymore.

[Larkspur]

8. No, according to Edmond Burke, 18th Century English MP, good judgement

is what representatives owe their constituents.

Burke was admired by most of our Founding Fathers and was a contemporary of them.

What Burke meant by this is that Reps were not to be hostage to constituents self-centered requests but must exercise good judgement when making decisions or pursuing their constituents' requests.

[bettyellen]

2. lost 8% support in two months......

[SteppingRazor]

4. This is great and all, but...

WHERE THE HELL ARE THESE PEOPLE???

Why aren't they doing something about it? I can only hope that, now that most are opposed to the war, their feelings will only deepen to the point of taking action as the 2006 campaign approaches.

[ailsagirl]

6. Good question!! In the sixties, you better believe there were many

many protests. :hippie:

Every night on the 6:00 news, we'd hear the latest casualty
figures, along with lots of footage.

And, no, the media weren't barred from photographing the
thousands of flag-draped coffins.

Times have changed.

[HockeyMom]

10. and pictures of little napalmed Vietnamese kids

You can bet the people would be turned off too if their saw bloody corpses of little Iraqi kids. They learned their lessons well, which is why the first thing they had to do was CONTROL THE MEDIA.

However, I HAVE seen some pretty gruesome pictures in the PRINT media; dead and hospitalized Iraqi kids, the American corpses hanging from the bridge. Unfortunately, not too many people read newspapers anymore.

On another note, though, this IS starting to remind mr of the turning around of public opinion toward the war. It didn't happen overnight then either. Once the "sleeping giant" of mainstream America wakes up, there is not stopping it.

[ailsagirl]

12. My concern is that if it hasn't awakened by now, it never will

It's the same media who still say, after 40+ years, that Oswald shot JFK.

We've been lied to for so many, many years

[kevinmc]

5. By Tom Delay and Dennis Hastert standards............

59% of Americans are Anti-American.

[PurityOfEssence]

11. Frank Newport: terrified, lily-livered nazi shill

FEAR grips the right. Mercifully unknown to them, they haven't much to fret: the corporate media will keep reality at bay.