Poll: Most Think U.S. Will Remain in Iraq

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050224/ap_on_re_us/iraq_opinion&cid=519&ncid=1480


The Jan. 30 elections in Iraq appear to have improved perceptions in the United States about the possibility of a stable Iraq, according to a poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. But that has not convinced the public that U.S. troops are coming home any sooner.


The poll found that 54 percent of those surveyed think U.S. troops will have to stay in Iraq for two more years, while 22 percent put the time at longer than five years.


Also, 47 percent said they think the elections will make Iraq more stable, compared with 29 percent who felt that way in January. Some 55 percent of those questioned think that U.S. troops should stay in Iraq until the country is stabilized.


Fifty-two percent say they do not think the Iraqi elections have increased the likelihood that other countries in the Middle East will become more democratic.

[redirish28]

1. we will be in iraq as long as bush is in office

[VegasWolf]

3. As long as oil is in Iraq. n/t

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. Gee...what's their first clue?

We set up shop in Germany 50 years ago...Korea 40 years ago...Saudi Arabia 15 years ago....

[Juan Martinez]

4. I feel...

I feel we are going to be there until every last drop of oil is exhausted.

Or, at least until Bush is out of office/impeached.

[LynnTheDem]

5. At least the majority of Americans aren't falling for bush's bullshit of

the old Vietnam "Domino Theory" of "spreading democracy".

That's something.

As "spreading democracy" is now bush's excuse for 1487 dead US men, women & teens, and 100,000s dead/wounded civilians, and $300 billion, and the US majority don't believe this excuse, bush will have to find yet another one. One day yet we may hear the real excuse.