Post by Blaque on Mar 14, 2007 8:45:56 GMT -5
Do you think the United States can win the war in Iraq?
Why or why not?
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Less than half of Americans think the United States can win the war in Iraq, according to a CNN poll released Tuesday.
Forty-six percent said the United States could not win the war in Iraq.
And although 46 percent also said the United States still could win, the results mark the first time since the war began four years ago that a majority of Americans said the United States is not capable of winning.
An even smaller percentage, 37 percent, said the United States will in fact win the war in Iraq; 54 percent said it will not. An all-time low of 29 percent said things were going well in Iraq.
Fifty-four percent of Americans said the Bush administration deliberately misled Americans about whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction before the U.S.-led invasion.
Nearly six in 10 of those polled want to see U.S. troops leave Iraq either immediately or within a year. In addition, more people would prefer Congress to run U.S. policy in Iraq than President Bush.
The CNN poll was conducted Friday through Sunday by Opinion Research Corp. Pollsters interviewed 1,027 adults for the survey, which had a sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Though support for Bush's decision to dispatch additional troops to Iraq grew to 37 percent -- up 5 percent from a mid-January poll -- 52 percent said Congress should block funding for the new deployment. Forty-three percent opposed such a move.
Bush announced in January he was deploying another 21,500 U.S. troops to Iraq to crack down on the country's sectarian warfare and the Sunni Arab insurgency in the country's west.
The White House approved the deployment of another 4,400 support troops over the weekend, largely to handle an expected increase in the number of Iraqi prisoners.
The decision remains unpopular, according to the latest poll, but opposition has declined since Bush announced it. This week's survey found 59 percent opposed the president's troop increase, down from 66 percent on January 11.
The Democratic leadership in Congress has opposed the deployment, with the support of a handful of Republicans. But efforts to use congressional control over spending to rein in the president have split the Democrats, particularly in the House of Representatives.
Why or why not?
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Less than half of Americans think the United States can win the war in Iraq, according to a CNN poll released Tuesday.
Forty-six percent said the United States could not win the war in Iraq.
And although 46 percent also said the United States still could win, the results mark the first time since the war began four years ago that a majority of Americans said the United States is not capable of winning.
An even smaller percentage, 37 percent, said the United States will in fact win the war in Iraq; 54 percent said it will not. An all-time low of 29 percent said things were going well in Iraq.
Fifty-four percent of Americans said the Bush administration deliberately misled Americans about whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction before the U.S.-led invasion.
Nearly six in 10 of those polled want to see U.S. troops leave Iraq either immediately or within a year. In addition, more people would prefer Congress to run U.S. policy in Iraq than President Bush.
The CNN poll was conducted Friday through Sunday by Opinion Research Corp. Pollsters interviewed 1,027 adults for the survey, which had a sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Though support for Bush's decision to dispatch additional troops to Iraq grew to 37 percent -- up 5 percent from a mid-January poll -- 52 percent said Congress should block funding for the new deployment. Forty-three percent opposed such a move.
Bush announced in January he was deploying another 21,500 U.S. troops to Iraq to crack down on the country's sectarian warfare and the Sunni Arab insurgency in the country's west.
The White House approved the deployment of another 4,400 support troops over the weekend, largely to handle an expected increase in the number of Iraqi prisoners.
The decision remains unpopular, according to the latest poll, but opposition has declined since Bush announced it. This week's survey found 59 percent opposed the president's troop increase, down from 66 percent on January 11.
The Democratic leadership in Congress has opposed the deployment, with the support of a handful of Republicans. But efforts to use congressional control over spending to rein in the president have split the Democrats, particularly in the House of Representatives.