Americans overwhelmingly think Iraq will fail (CNN Poll)

[kpete]

Poll: Iraq won't be governing itself soon
Asked if it was worth going to war, smaller majority says no

Wednesday, January 11, 2006; Posted: 6:23 p.m. EST (23:23 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Americans overwhelmingly lack confidence that Iraq will have a stable government in place within the next year, and more than half say that the war has not been worth its cost, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Wednesday.

Fewer than one in five, or about 19 percent, of the 1,003 adults quizzed Friday through Sunday, said they believe Iraqis can assemble a sound, democratic government in the next 12 months that is able to maintain order without the assistance of U.S. troops. Seventy-five percent said they didn't believe that would happen.

Removing the deadline seemed to improve respondents' confidence, as 46 percent of those polled said the country would one day be able to produce a stable government. Another 46 percent said Iraq would never be capable of such a feat without U.S. assistance, and 7 percent said they had no opinion. (Watch the expectations for Iraq in 2006 -- 1:56)

The poll also suggested that most Americans remain skeptical about the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, with 52 percent telling pollsters it wasn't worth going to war. However, this is a marked decrease from a poll taken fewer than two months ago, indicating that 60 percent of Americans didn't think the war was worth the cost.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/11/iraq.poll/index.html
via:http://americablog.blogspot.com/

[Benhurst]

1. "Removing the deadline seemed to improve

respondents' confidence, as 46 percent of those polled said the country would one day be able to produce a stable government."

Hell, even the United States may one day be able to produce a stable and democratically-elected government. Big deal.