LA TIMES: Commanding majority opposes more troops in Iraq

[laststeamtrain]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-poll18jan18,0,6969019,full.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Commanding majority opposes more troops in Iraq
By Ronald Brownstein
Times Staff Writer

3:30 PM PST, January 17, 2007

WASHINGTON — A commanding majority of Americans oppose President Bush's decision to send more troops to Iraq and just over half the country wants Congress to block the deployment, a Times/Bloomberg poll has found.

As he seeks to chart a new course in Iraq, Bush also faces pervasive resistance and skepticism toward the U.S. commitment — more than three-fifths of those surveyed said the war was not worth fighting and only one-third approved of his handling of the conflict.

And in a striking measure of Bush's declining credibility, half said they believed he deliberately misled the U.S. in making his case for invading Iraq.

On all three questions, these are Bush's weakest showing in a Times poll.

Asked about Bush's recent announcement that he would dispatch another 21,500 troops to Iraq, three-fifths said they opposed the move, while just over one-third backed it.

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[saltpoint]

1. I like the sound of that -- "a commanding majority."

Perhaps George W. Bush knows something we don't about the future of the Middle East.

But I doubt it.

He's made terrible, world-changing mistakes in our foreign policy and is too pigheaded to admit when he's wrong.

The mark of a foolish little boy and not the president we need.

[BayCityProgressive]

2. pfff

Only Bush does the commanding. He is the decider!

[saltpoint]

3. Yep. He's a tough guy. A wildcattin' rascal cowboy.

Or, in my circle, a prepubescent 9-year old bully on any given playground in the world.

He's got a long damn 2 years ahead of him if the TIMES poll is correct.

[LynnTheDem]

4. "half said they believed he deliberately misled the U.S." ...

WTF's wrong with 22% of the other half??!

(Forget the remaining 28% of the other half; rightwingnuts will remain ignorant idiots come hell or high water.)