Only One Quarter of U.S. Adults Think That Sending More Troops to Iraq Will Improve Security

[sabra]

Source: Harris Poll

Only One Quarter of U.S. Adults Think That Sending More Troops to Iraq Will Improve Security and Reduce Killings

ROCHESTER, N.Y., March 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A majority of U.S. adults are pessimistic that "the surge", i.e., the addition of more than 20,000 U.S. troops, will be successful, with only about one quarter of all adults (26%) believing that this will improve security and reduce the killings in Iraq. A similar 29 percent of adults think that sending the additional troops is the right thing to do.

President George W. Bush has spoken of the strong evidence that Iran is helping the Shiites in Iraq by providing them with weapons. A 59 percent to 10 percent majority of adults (with 31 percent undecided) think this is true. However, only a third of adults (32%) would favor bombing Iran even if this is proven to be true.

These are some of the results of a new Harris Poll of 2,223 U.S. adults surveyed online between March 6 and 14, 2007. The survey also includes several questions tracking long term attitudes about the war in Iraq. In general, these show very few changes since January, except for small drop in those who think that invading Iraq was the "right thing to do" to 34 percent, its lowest point yet.

Read more: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,79012.shtml

[Zenlitened]

1. Send that one-quarter over to Iraq ASAP. They can let us know how it works out.

:crazy:

[Throwing Stones]

2. I hate polls like this

What does it actually tell us? That sending more troops won't improve security? No, it's a stupid opinion poll of people without any expertise on the matter.
I am vehemently opposed to the surge, but this is like asking a group of accountants if they think the surgery will improve the patient's health.

[LiberalFighter]

3. Surgery will improve health if you have the right doctor and he knows what he is doing

Even he could screw it up or the patient is too far gone.

[EFerrari]

6. Well, it does tell you that BushCo is losing support among the 30%ers

[OneBlueSky]

4. this whole notion of "improving security" is just a wee bit disingenuous . . .

when you stop to think that the security problems were and are caused entirely by our illegal invasion and equally illegal occupation of the country . . .

[sofa king]

5. In other news, one quarter of Americans throw out babies with bathwater.

One quarter of Americans polish their shoes with cow shit.
One quarter of Americans confuse manholes with their anuses.
One quarter of Americans outthought by bag of hammers.

And so on....