Poll: Capture boosts Americans' confidence (CNN)

[stevedeshazer]

(CNN) -- The capture of Saddam Hussein boosted confidence among Americans polled Sunday, most of whom agreed the Iraqi war was worth fighting and the search for weapons of mass destruction would be successful.

The respondents also were confident that Iraq would establish a stable government and that the United States would find al Qaeda terror leader Osama bin Laden.

Of those polled, 62 percent agreed it was worth going to war. The previous high was 63 percent on August 25-26. The percent in favor was at its lowest in January -- 53 percent -- before the fighting began.

More than half of those polled -- 54 percent -- said they were very confident or somewhat confident that the elusive chemical and biological weapons would be found.

source: http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/12/14/sprj.nirq.saddam.poll/

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Saddam's capture didn't change many minds. Bushco has 11 months to "find" weapons of mass destruction. To all the naysayers, I say that the lack of WMD is still the central issue. Two AK-47's and a pistol won't cut it.

[Cush]

1. Larry King said it was a 3% jump

on his show tonight

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Thanks a three percent jump

falls under the Margin of Error.

Also the central issue are them WMDs and the lies on the way to
war

[Cush]

3. I think most people have moved on

Beyond Saddam, .......most probably thought he was already dead or captured

[stevedeshazer]

4. True

Finding a hairy Saddam in a hole is unlikely to cause people to suddenly like Bush, unless they already did.

[Sean Reynolds]

5. Wow a 3% bump....Bush is rollin now!

Does that mean he'll move up from 50% to 53%?

[Cush]

6. 3% jump in War Support

[jburton]

7. Jobs for the Unemployed

Would boost confidence more, I betcha...

[alcuno]

8. A reminder. This is not a poll of registered voters.

It's adults nationwide and it's a 4% increase over the previous 59% on Dec. 5-7.

[Military Brat]

9. Was this poll taken before or after SH's denial of WMD?

Not that it would make any difference to those who want sooo badly to believe that their little bushy-wushy would never lie to them.

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[stevedeshazer]

13. Well, Nunatak

Looks like he won't be a "martry" after all.

Maybe he can tell us where all those WMDs are, eh? Oh, that's right, they found BOTH AK-47s.

Nice try. Gloat all you want. The questions are still out there.

[IndianaGreen]

11. I hate to pee on American delusions, but consider this...

Saddam was living inside a hole on the ground, with a suitcase full of money as his companion. This is not a man that was strategizing and leading the resistance to the American occupation. This was a man in total isolation with nothing but the voices inside his head as company. Saddam's capture does not change the facts on the ground: the US is still a hostile occupation force, and the US is selling Iraq's resources to American corporations with no input from the Iraqi people.

[Justice]

23. Agree

That was my reaction completely. Again if Hussein had WMD would he have not sold them to another country in order to get out of Iraq? If he had money, would he have not used it to get out of Iraq?

The suitcase did not hold much money, the hole was pretty small. Not a man in power leading resistance.

I am very very concerned for our troops, as this capture confirms for me that the resistance is very anti-American and not at all pro-Hussein.

[Fovea]

12. They find a disoriented and dishevelled Saddam

And I say he was hauled drugged out of a cell, and loveinly laid in a tomb, to emerge clthonically into the light of day.

Wow, Karl pulled out all the stops for this one. Everything about this war but the casualties has been orchestrated to make Bush more Christlike than Woodrow Wilson. We have a seriously deranged amoral administration, rogue in every way. They will just keep escalating until someone stops them. If we are smart, it will be America that stops them, before the rest of the world is forced to.

[alittlelark]

17. You are so right

At least in my take on things.I think HS was brain fried in order to avoid those pesky questions involving Who gave him WMD's and oil field equipment.

Those photos of him said all you need to say. Even major network people were commenting on it.

All HEIL THE BFEE.:evilgrin:

:toast:

[maggrwaggr]

14. 54 percent think we're still gonna find WMDs????

Good GOD these people must still believe in the tooth fairy, too.

How ........ uh, naively optimistic of them!

That's putting it gently.

Americans just can't seem to believe that their lying thieving mafioso leaders might have lied to them.

How ..... innocent.

[IndianaGreen]

15. Most Americans are just like the Germans of Nazi Germany

See no evil, hear no evil. Believe in the Fuehrer, and ask no questions!

[lostnfound]

20. You said it! Since childhood, being on the right side of that horror has..

been firm in my mind. Some friends seem so interested in 'staying mainstream', 'not being alarmist', or 'being somewhere in the middle' ... I've always questioned whether I would have been one of the few with the guts to have stood up to the Nazis or not, and always prayed (or hoped) that I would have.

Being on the wrong side is to have failed the ultimate test of one's life, I think. And as I get older, I am coming to think that in every generation perhaps there is a challenge to be met.

[PurityOfEssence]

19. Amazing, huh?

How can there possibly be useable nouns of any sort that would fit the bill? They had to be real and ready. That's not gonna happen; they've torn the place apart.

It's just ridiculous. What's worse is that it shows the NEED to believe, and we knows where that leads...

[IndianaGreen]

22. "What's worse is that it shows the NEED to believe..."

That "need to believe" will be our eventual downfall as a nation. Saddam's capture creates additional problems for the White House's PR machine. What will Bush say when the attacks by the resistance continues unabated? Up to this time, the Bush regime has been claiming that Saddam was the master strategist behind the resistance, and that the resistance was composed of Saddam supporters.

Saddam's capture will increase demands by Iraqis for the US to leave and for Iraq to have self-government, and I don't mean that panel of puppets the US put in for window dressing.

BTW, the pictures that were shown on British and American TV of Iraqis carrying red banners celebrating the capture of Saddam, failed to take note that the banners were from the Iraqi Communist Party.

[lebkuchen]

16. Americans are more naive than Charlotte on "Sex and the City"

Makes one want to take on Samantha's role, slap the shit out of US citizens and say "Oh, come on! Get with the program!"

On the other hand, all that naivete might boost my stock portfolio enough to get me out of the hole so I can pull myself out of the market, forever. Price shares would only have to double, that's all.

[imax2268]

18. To many people

in this country live inside a box...and tend not to think outside that box...

[lanlady]

21. same thing after the killing of Saddam's sons

--all the happy talk was short-lived; the violence only grew worse. I don't see why things will be any different with Saddam in captivity.

[mbperrin]

24. Well, now! Thank goodness the deficit is gone, jobs are back,

flu season is over, states are in surplus, the hungry are being fed, the sick are being healed, who knew one old man in a hole could wield so much influence?


OK, war over! The troops can come home for Christmas! After all (the other reasons), wasn't the reason we were there was to remove SH from Iraq? He's removed now! We win! No more terror attacks ever! Dismantle Homeland Security! Repeal the Patriot Act! Yahoo!!!!!!

(Damn, who knew snorting Oxycontin at 7 am would be this good?!)