68% Want Troops Safely Home in 6 Months

[davidswanson]

As Congress considers President Bush's request for another $100 billion for Iraq, 68% of Americans want Bush to bring U.S. troops home within 6 months, according to a Democrats.com telephone poll of 628 adults conducted from May 1-4, 2008 by ICR ( http://www.icrsurvey.com ).

The poll marks a 14% increase from 54% in September. Most of that increase (11%) came from those who want Congress to require Bush to use existing funds to bring our troops safely home, bringing that total to 51% - a majority of Americans.

Broken down by party, 85% of Democrats want our troops home within 6 months, as do 78% of Independents. By contrast, only 32% of Republicans want our troops home soon.

Democratic support grew by 15% since September, and Independent support grew by 20%. By contrast, Republican support was unchanged.

The new poll differs slightly from last September's poll because Congressional Democrats have proposed giving President Bush $70 billion more than he requested in order to avoid another unpopular funding vote before the November election.

The new poll asked: "President Bush wants Congress to spend 100 billion dollars more in tax dollars this year to keep U.S. troops in Iraq." The comparison data below is only for the identical questions, with last September's data immediately below in italics.

HERE ARE THE RESULTS:
http://democrats.com/iraq-poll-2

[BlueManDude]

1. Many of that 68% will vote for McCain. Go figure.

[galaxy21]

2. Well, sure they want an end to unjust war....but voting for an elitist?

Clearly, this outweighs actually, you know, saving lives.

[BlueManDude]

7. The vote for president is the least rational vote that people cast.

[madrchsod]

3. 6 months is impossible...

we should have everyone and everything out by the in spring of 2010..

[Bigmack]

4. We don't have planes?

What's the fucking problem? Blow the equipment and installations in place and load the airplanes.

[MindPilot]

5. That's always been my contention...

The only thing the US military can do better than going in is getting out.

[Fireweed247]

6. They could get out if they wanted to

But the plan was always to stay as long as possible

We need a new Congress that will cut the funding to Iraq!
www.peacecandidates.com