Poll: Majority Of Americans Say War Not Worth It

The only poll that counts is the one that counts the actual votes. This is basically a chicken shit country that will ultimately choose McCain because of ignorance and fear. At least that is my cynic talking today, but as long as people choose a guy they would want to have a beer with (He doesn't even drink!) or make choices based on religion, we are basically screwed.

My well researched vote is canceled because someone saw a picture of "Hussein Obama" with his heart uncovered during the star spangled banner.

This isn't a war. It's an occupation.

It will only end when the "benefits" outweigh the "costs" to those who are profiting from it.

That would include the major oil companies, defense firms, KBR, Halliburton, Blackwater, and all of the investors who own stocks in these firms,

The "occupation" is a business deal. Pure and simple.

It may be paid for in the blood of American GI's, contractors, and Iraqi civilians, but its absolutely, positively a business deal over the control of oil that will one day be pumped from beneath Iraqi sands.

And nothing more.

WWII was justified; Iraq is not. Now Bush is posturing, telling us to fear that Iran is collaborating with Al Qaeda to make WMDs. It's the same old rhetoric, the same old lies. He thinks we'll buy it; let's just hope that Congress doesn't.

Americans have felt that Iraq was not the right thing to do since July 2004. Someone please tell Cheney (for all the good it would do) that this is not a 'fluctuation in public polling', but truely our opinion, and he still works for us.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/10/opinion/polls/main930772.shtml

Don't want profiteering wars & corporate corruption? Don't vote for CORPORATE COWBOYS LIKE CHENEY.

Cheney's a good example of why voters should WATCH OUT WHO THEY VOTE FOR.

=== On Cheney's day #1 as V-P he TOLD the deer-in-the-headlights GWBush that "WE ARE ENTITLED" to do virtually anything we want. And he did it. Cheney gets away with it.

=== That Corporate greed is #1 in importance, regardless of cost.
Deregulation is essential, regardless of cost.

=== Invasions are essential, regardless of cost in lives & tax money.

=== Cheney runs the Bush-Cheney "show". Cheney believes middle-income Americans should pay the bills for CORPORATE WELFARE QUEENS out to profiteer on everything-in-sight as fast as possible.

==== THAT is the kind of "corporate cowboy arrogance" NOT to vote for ever again.

Notice how it's always the people who aren't over there fighting who seem to think they know more about the war than the people who are over there fighting ? And yes liberals I'm talking about you.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama's big national lead over Hillary Clinton has all but evaporated in the U.S. presidential race, and both Democrats trail Republican John McCain, according a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.

SO I GUESS POLLS ARE IMPORTANT ACCORDING TO THIS HEADLINE

Without non-stop war the neo cons got nothing else to run on.

The 29% who approve should enlist.

Yeah, go ahead America and whine....you voted for another Bush term, and it's looking like you're going to actually vote for a third one with Bomb Bomb McCain, DESPITE the fact, that he is going to drag our sorry asses into Iran...how much blood actually has to spill before you hit the streets, and vote with your human brains istead of those "lizard" brains. Disgusting and I could care less about the Americans who don't feel this war is "worth" it...it never was worth it, it was a LIE and yet, American's are still fooled by 30 second soundbytes and colorful graphics and rely on the words of endless pundits who are in the pockets of MSM and the elite for all their news worthy information. Here's a new quote America,,,,I've never been so ashamed of this nation as I am right now.

Here's the only thing that needs be said about this war and why it's not worth it.

Taking estimates that say this war will cost 3 trillion dollars...that means that every man, woman and child in this country, legal or otherwise, paying taxes or otherwise, on retirement or a 2 day old newborn---is responsible for $10,000 EACH to pay for it.

Worth it? I think not.

We did not invade an occupy Iraq for oil, freedom, or democracy as we were led to believe. We invaded Iraq to ensure the re-election of an already-failed administration. In that respect, Bush is entirely correct (at least from his perspective) that it was worth it.

American public support for the military effort in Iraq has reached a high point unseen since the summer of 2006, a development that promises to reshape the political landscape.

According to late February polling conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, 53 percent of Americans " a slim majority " now believe "the U.S. will ultimately succeed in achieving its goals" in Iraq. That figure is up from 42 percent in September 2007.

The percentage of those who believe the war in Iraq is going "very well" or "fairly well" is also up, from 30 percent in February 2007 to 48 percent today.

29/64? That sounds like Bush's approval/disapproval ratings. Could there be a correlation?

There is no underestimating the general intelligence of the American public.

Yeah.... we all love illegal invasion and occupation of a sovereign nation........ not to mention thousands of dead American soldiers, tens of thousand of wounded....and hundreds of thousands of dead or displaced Iraqis.... Yipee! (sarcasm)

"This poll was conducted among a random sample of 844 adults nationwide, interviewed by telephone March 15-17, 2008. The error due to sampling for results based on the entire sample could be plus or minus three percentage points. The error for subgroups is higher. "


THIS was the poll?????? You are kidding, right?

No war is/was worth it. I cry at the money spent, the lives lost during the past 5 years. Not to mention making us hated by the world community, the horror of it all.

John McCain will not keep us safe. He will sacrifice more lives for the wealth of the few. I don't think that any of the candidates get this right, but Clinton/Obama might not get us in even deeper.

Here huffpost goes again, losing my comments, though I gave up and hadn't made one in several weeks--so I'll try to reiterate word-for-word because I think the ways in which each of us (Cheney's "majorityof Americans") was suckered in is important on this Culture of Death anniversary.

I pitied the Iraqi people under Saddam and thought they would be set free. Even so, I opposed the invasion because I didn't want American troops to die. I feared for the Iraqi people nearly as much as I pitied their plight under Saddam and his sons. I knew Iraqis would be killed. I believed this might become a quagmire, another Vietnam. But I never believed it was for oil. How miserably fooled I was, believing BUSHCO was the good guys! THEY are killing Americans. THEY are my enemy. But at least I didn't vote for them again in 2004. I used to be a gun-totin' female hardass repug. Today I'm an ultra left-wing liberal Democrat. How bad does a presidential adminstration have to be to accomplish that?!

INFAMY!!! BUSCHO are war criminals. I am holding my breath in true hope of seeing them prosecuted. If I were anywhere near San Francisco today, instead of a little house in the Ozarks, I'd be in the street on this day. I expect to make it to the streets with my sign held high in the near future, as these evil times continue. The war must stop now. The criminals must pay.

(Okay...clicky button. Saved it this time, so I can repost and repost until it appears, if that is even possible here. *sigh*)

I watched part of the HBO series "John Adams" last night, and I found the production to be a poignant and powerful depiction of the founding of our nation. For me, the series served as a timely reminder of the historical and philosophical roots of our country and of the true sentiments that inspired our founding mothers and fathers to pursue such an amazing feat. Several insights registered as I watched the show.The patriots -- men, women, slaves, native Americans -- who fought for liberty and freedom risked all in challenging the British establishment to escape precisely the conditions our executive office and congresional leaders have today wrought upon us. They would roll in their graves if they witnessed what we as a nation have become -- the vacuum of integral leadership in the Executive Branch, the passivity of Congress, and the apathy and ignorance of the American people who have allowed this to happen.Taxation without representation is tyranny -- We, the American people, have no rights and no true representation as it stands, and this situation is clearly reflected in the words, attitudes, and actions of this administration. Of course Bush and Cheney do not acknowledge the polls and the will of the American people. It was never their intention to serve the nation, but to pillage and plunder the coffers and constitution of the US, as well as several other nations abroad could they get away with it...and they have.Religion, Christianity more specifically, did not inform the framing of the Constitution. Not for a minute did I ever believe, as so many individuals assert today, that this nation was intended to be the vehicle for domination of the Christian Right, nor exclusive to other faiths and religions.Just my two cents for the day.....I have many more thoughts to share, but I will refrain and recommend that you watch the series yourself. It is truly inspirational."Trust no man with power to endanger the public liberty"-John Adams 1772

Bush and Cheyney should go to Iraq, Bush should take his two drunk daughters with him and while they're at it, take Hillary and Joe Lieberman along too, since they voted for it! Vote for McCain and get another 100 years of war! How many people have sons or daughters of draft age, because believe me if they keep starting wars, eventually they are going to have to bring the draft back. How many of you want your sons or daughters in a crazy land where people blow themselves up for the fun of it? We need to get off their soil, they do not want us over there.

I watched part of the HBO series "John Adams" last night, and I found the production to be a poignant and powerful depiction of the founding of our nation. For me, the series served as a timely reminder of the historical and philosophical roots of our country and of the true sentiments that inspired our founding mothers and fathers to pursue such an amazing feat. Several insights registered as I watched the show.
The patriots -- men, women, slaves, native Americans -- who fought for liberty and freedom risked all in challenging the British establishment to escape precisely the conditions our executive office and congresional leaders have today wrought upon us. They would roll in their graves if they witnessed what we as a nation have become -- the vacuum of integral leadership in the Executive Branch, the passivity of Congress, and the apathy and ignorance of the American people who have allowed this to happen.
Taxation without representation is tyranny -- We, the American people, have no rights and no true representation as it stands, and this situation is clearly reflected in the words, attitudes, and actions of this administration. Of course Bush and Cheney do not acknowledge the polls and the will of the American people. It was never their intention to serve the nation, but to pillage and plunder the coffers and constitution of the US, as well as several other nations abroad could they get away with it...and they have.
Religion, Christianity more specifically, did not inform the framing of the Constitution. Not for a minute did I ever believe, as so many individuals assert today, that this nation was intended to be the vehicle for domination of the Christian Right, nor exclusive to other faiths and religions.
Just my two cents for the day.....I have many more thoughts to share, but I will refrain and recommend that you watch the series yourself. It is truly inspirational.
"Trust no man with power to endanger the public liberty"-John Adams 1772