John... i agree that polls can be tricky things depending on who's doing the polling. But results like this are NOT unique. Nor are results like this NEW. Polsters have been getting feedback like this for a long while now. To summarily discount them is quite convenient for one's side. And i think u miss the point of my post. Contrary to David's post, most Americans see things differently than David... per the discounted polls of course.


>Polls are a wonderful thing, eh?
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>Actually, they are meaningless unless they are posited scientifically.
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>Unfortunately, many pollsters are hired to promote an agenda and the questions are phrased in a way that the respondent is trapped into an answer that doesn't reflect his or her thoughts.
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>Forget the polls: Common sense dictates that our troops should leave only when local forces can stabilize the region. I don't understand this move to dictate a date for withdrawal. Makes no sense; unless, of course, you are so anti-war and anti-Bush that you'd rather see a nonsensical retreat than to see the mission carried out to it's end.
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>>>Anyone with any sense can see that there is a constitutionally elected government operating in Iraq despite the Democrats' attempts to say that the whole thing is a failure and that civil war is inevitable. Most Americans can see it for what it is and not for how the liberals want to paint it.
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>> 58% disapprove of GWB performance
>> 61% disapprove of GWB foreign policy
>> 61% disapprove of GWB handling of Iraq
>> 52% say military casualties & cost not worth removing saddam
>> 53% say decision to attack iraq was the wrong decision
>> 57% say US should reduce # of troops 35% say maintain troop levels
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>>I take it that no one should count you in the 58, 61, 61, 52, 53, or 57%. Please report back in 6 months on what corner we just turned over there.