Another 'Get R Done' meme: Afghanistan war: Stay until job is done, say majority of Americans

[unhappycamper]

President Obama (r.) walks from the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, June 23 where he announced that Gen. Stanley McChrystal had been relieved of duty as top war commander in Afghanistan and would be replaced by Gen. David Petraeus (2nd l.).


Afghanistan war: Stay until job is done, say majority of Americans
By Mark Sappenfield, Staff writer / August 9, 2010

The leak of more than 91,000 classified Afghanistan war documents – accounts that gave an intimate and unvarnished look at the faltering campaign – appears to have virtually no effect on American public opinion, a new TIPP/Christian Science Monitor poll suggests.

Of those respondents who were at least somewhat familiar with the WikiLeaks story, 79 percent said the revelations did not change their support for the war one way or the other.

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Some 69 percent of respondents said the Afghanistan war was important to US national security, with 36 percent of those saying it was very important.

Indeed, a majority of those polled rejected any deadline for withdrawal, with 57 percent saying a large-scale drawdown of US troops should occur only when conditions on the ground warrant.

Yet respondents also criticized Mr. Obama’s war plan. Only 27 percent said the administration had laid out clear goals for success. And only 9 percent supported a withdrawal date of next summer – the moment when Obama has promised to start bringing some troops home.



unhappycamper comment: That '69 percent of respondents said the Afghanistan war was important to US national security' should hike their asses down to their local recruiting station. Put your mouth where your money is.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. Majority of the American population don't understand history of Afghanistan

the job will never be done there. Bting back the troops.

[hobbit709]

5. Majority of the American population doesn't even understand the history of the US.

[Bragi]

2. Predicable response from a militarized, misinformed public /nt

[hobbit709]

3. Just what exactly is the "job" we're supposedly doing over there?

Making enemies faster than we're making friends or going broke faster than a drunken sailor on shore leave?

[LaurenG]

4. so in other words most Americans want to stay indefinitely?

not this American. :(

[LargeGreenSpider]

6. The "job" in this case

... is to provide protection for for-profit fossil-fuel energy companies while simultaneously feeding tons of money to the military industrial/entitlement complex.

[krabigirl]

7. Wow..i guess i know the wrong americans then, because most people i know on both sides ro

are tired of this war.

[jwirr]

8. Well that won't be long - the empire is almost broken. So we will be

done destroying our nation soon if we continue on this path. I am thinking in terms of Chalmers Johnson's ideas. We cannot afford the wars.