Poll: Overwhelming Support For War In Iraq

Despite how they might like to spin it, the case can easily be made that a recent poll shows overwhelming public support for the war in Iraq.

You can see the entire poll through Hot Air. Now focus on the screen cap from the poll below.

Eighty-four percent of Americans clearly support being in Iraq for a minimum of one more year. Now forget the word surge that has been bandied about. The word in itself means nothing.

Ask yourself this, with a baseline of 84% supporting a continued presence in Iraq for a minimum of a year, what do you suppose they would say if you asked:

Given your support for one more year of war in Iraq, what would you say if military commanders felt a relatively small increase in troops could reduce the commitment to ten months and save American and Iraqi lives?

As Allah points out, Bush wants to transfer the fight to the Iraqis by November.

Update: CNN gets a scoop: Bush wants a full Iraqi takeover by November.

It is inconceivable, to anyone but a liberal Democrat, that the 84% supporting at least staying the course for another year in Iraq would refuse a request from the military for a relatively slight up tick in troops, if it were going to speed the effort and potentially save American and Iraqi lives.

Bush has more than enough support to get his surge. And the Dems will be dead in the water in 08 if they strongly resist.

See Allah for more.

Comments

[Naz]

According to a Wapo poll only 17% of Americans polled feel the war is worth fighting- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/08/AR2007010800237.html I'm not sure where they got their figures from, and neither is anyone else sure on FreeRepublic.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1765042/posts sounds like a bogus pre Presidential speech poll to me

[ApplePie]

I love how you lump the 2% of no opinion into the 84% of "Americans that clearly support being in Iraq". That is awesome.

You fail to show the real Gallup poll where this was copied and pasted from. That 61% of Amicans oppose Bush sending more troops. So if you say that only a "liberal Democrat" would be against sending more troops then 61% of the country is a "liberal Democrat".

And "staying the course" is not an option since only 26% of the country approve of Bush's handling of the Iraq war.

But hey, manipulate the facts how you want.

[Pete]

Oops, Bush set a time table for withdrawing. What a flip flopper.

[seekeronos]

Waaaaah. 82% then. Big whoop, for 2%.

Still, that is 82% in favour of maintaining a presence over there for at least another year vs. the 15% of the cut & run cowards who want us out yesterday.

As for the 61% that don't want to send more troops... well... how big of a deployment of additional troops was that part of the poll talking about?

Dan did say that it would be inconceivable to anyone but a liberal democrat to refuse a SLIGHT increase ( a qunatity that Dan did not number, but could be presumed not to be a massive surge). Granted, some numbers may have been more helpful... but I think Dan was speaking generally of a minor uptick.

Personally, I don't think a minor uptick will do much. If we could get say, 500,000 or more pairs of boots on the ground, and perhaps ease of the crazy ROE against shooting down mad-dog Islamists in the back of the head inside thier hideouts at mosques, as well as silencing the anti-Iraqi and anti-Coalition propaganda they broadcast... hell, bulldoze the friggin mosques for all I care.... THAT might actually make a difference.

Follow that up with by deploying 10,000 fundamentalist, bible-preaching Arabic speaking baptist missionaries, and then we got a game plan. Christian converts are less likely to be recruited to go shooting up neighborhoods or blowing up busloads of innocent people than Islamist scumbags.

[c]

Bush wants to turn over Iraq to the Iraqis by November. I want to win the Powerball lottery. Wishing won't make either of those true.

[Carl]

Overwhelming support?? Hahahaha!! Either you are an idiot, in denial or both. That's a good one. Hey, how's that Macacawitz victory call working out?? Hahahahaha!!

[Thomas Hormby]

I agree with seek. There are very few people who want to pull out of Iraq immediately but there are even fewer who want to escalate. Not good when the president is about to announce a major escalation (supposedly 22,000 troops according to All Things Considered) as the 'new way forward in Iraq'.

Kind of a half vitory for Republicans/hawks.

[jesus]

I agree with you Dan.We need to send more troops.Matter fact, we should start plans to invade Iran and North Korea before 08 since those pussy liberals are afraid of war.America wants war.Its good for the economy.We should also reinstate the draft so all those burnout highschool punks join the Army and become real men to protect America.

[CB]

You must be living in the Twilight Zone. Americans do not support the "surge" and you must be just one of the kool aid drinkers (about 31%) who will follow Bush and the neocons off a cliff.

Think about it: Elections have consequences! The voters spoke loud and clear in November and they want our troops home.

[John Konop]

Even Oliver North is against Iraq ’surge’

Do you think President Bush could be doing the “surge” just to hold off a civil war till he leaves office?

DP-Virginia is home to three gallant, patriotic men with much in common. They are all three ex-Marines. They are all three highly decorated Vietnam veterans. They all sought at one time or another to be our junior senator. One lost his bid, another won his, and the third both won and lost. Our state can be proud of all three, and grateful for their service to our country.

I refer, of course, to Chuck Robb, Jim Webb and Oliver North. Strange bedfellows, nicht wahr? One may challenge any suggestion that the similarities I cited can withstand the drastically divergent political paths they have trodden since Vietnam. Before Wednesday night, I would agree, they had nothing in common. Now, it appears, George Bush has given them common cause.

North writes, “Not one of the soldiers, sailors, airmen, Guardsmen or Marines I interviewed told me that they wanted more U.S. boots on the ground. In fact, nearly all expressed just the opposite: ‘We don’t need more American troops, we need more Iraqi troops,’ was a common refrain. They are right.”