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unrestrained id said:
Well, here's a poll at least. We love our polls....




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Poll: Most in U.S. say Iraq war not worthwhile

Tuesday, May 3, 2005 Posted: 11:22 PM EDT (0322 GMT)

According to a recent poll, most Americans do not believe going to war in Iraq was worth it.


WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A majority of Americans do not believe it was worth going to war in Iraq, according to a national poll released Tuesday.

Fifty-seven percent of those polled said they did not believe it was worth going to war, versus 41 percent who said it was, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll of 1,006 adults.

That was a drop in support from February, when 48 percent said it was worth going to war and half said it was not.

It's also the highest percentage of respondents who have expressed those feelings and triple the percentage of Americans who said that it was not worth the cost shortly after the war began about two years ago.

The new poll question, asked by telephone on April 29-May 1, had a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.

Asked how things are going for the United States in Iraq, 56 percent said "badly" or "very badly," up from 45 percent in March.

Forty-two percent said "well" or "very well," down from 52 percent in March.

The margin of error for that question was plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Americans appeared evenly divided over whether the decision to send U.S. troops to Iraq was a mistake, with 49 percent saying yes and 48 percent saying no. The sampling error was plus or minus 5 points.

On Tuesday, House and Senate conferees agreed to an $82 billion supplemental spending bill for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

That pushes the total cost of the Bush administration's war on terror to more than $300 billion, according to The Associated Press. (Full story)

In March 2003, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told a House panel that Iraq, with its oil resources, "can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon."

Such forecasts proved to be off the mark. Oil revenues have been lower than predicted partly because the industry's infrastructure was in bad shape. Overall reconstruction costs also have been higher than expected.

White House claims that weapons of mass destruction would be found in Iraq also failed to materialize.

Early Tuesday, the U.S. military found the body of a pilot from one of two missing Marine Corps F/A-18 jets that Navy officials believe collided while flying in operations in Iraq. (Full story)

The number of U.S. troops who have died in the Iraq war stood at 1,585 as of Tuesday, according to the Pentagon.






I've said it before and I'll say it again. The public opinion poll is probably the lowest common denominator of actual public opinion. Why? Because most people can't be bothered to answer a string of [loaded] questions over the phone from someone who is essentially a glorified telemarketer. The only people who stick around to answer all the questions are the few who care enough about their side of the issue to be loud about it. Basically, all your respondents will be extremists at one end of the spectrum or the other, leaving no way to gauge the opinions of the vast majority who fall somewhere in the middle.

For that matter, you're assuming all of us give a flying fuck about the articles you're posting. Most people are on here to talk about comics or wrestling or baseball or the physical 'virtues' of whatever woman Wednesday is posting this week. Not everyone has nothing better to do with their lives than sit around yammering about how their side or political party has all the answers and we should have listened to you all along. A lot of us just don't care.

You're welcome to come up with a rebuttal if you want. I probably won't read it though. Because, well, I just don't care.

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