Poll: Majority Of Americans Say War Not Worth It

CBS News:

One the eve of the five-year anniversary of the start of the war with Iraq, Americans continue to think the results of the war have not been worth the loss of American lives and the other costs of attacking Iraq, according to a new CBS News poll.

Today 29 percent of Americans say the results of the war were worth it; 64 percent say they were not.

In August 2003, less than six months after the beginning of the war, Americans were divided as the whether or not the results of the war were worth it. Opinion reached a low point in March 2006 - when only one in four Americans said the war was worth the costs.

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Comments

[gubbypix]

What fantasy land does bush boy live that he does not listen to polls? There has to be an Amendment to the Constitution that prescribes that we fire the pres if the polls fall below a certain mark. As of eight years ago this P567% should have been history. No accountability for his actions, gets his instructions from his hallucinations. What does it take to get people off thier friggen arses from watching American fido and all the lame crap they watch to start protesting more and bugging the heck out of thier reps in congress to do more. What a system we have, it hasn't advanced at all

G.

[loki]

Since when has the majority of America ever matter to this President or Congress. They are all for corporations, and corporate wealth for the few elites.

[GhostintheMachine]

This is a Democracy and in a Democracy the people make their voice heard by voting. If you don't like who is in office vote them out. Most of you are suffering from a severe case of BDS. You always seem so smart second guessing the President and Congress from your basement command posts.

[serialcoma]

Amazing.. you always seem so stupid in your blind allegiance to a coward and traitor.

[CarlyCorday]

I felt sorry for the Iraqi people under Saddam and thought they'd be set free. Even so, I wasn't in favor of the invasion because I didn't want our soldiers dying. I thought it MIGHT turn into a quagmire, and another Vietnam. But I did not believe it was for oil. I feel as if I've been grabbed by the hair, my face bashed into a pile of poo on the ground, for having ever believed BUSHCO was the good guys. I will never live it down. At least I didn't vote for the chimp in 2004. Since then, I've gone from a gun-totin' hardass repug to a leftie liberal Democrat. Imagine a president that bad.

[DatelessNerd]

The moronic 29% who think this war has been "worth it" should be forced to pay for it.

[CarolinaDem]

And just how DO you square the conventional praise for our brave, superior military with their bureaucratic failures to supply their troops, make a coherent plan and figure out the difference between a burro and a burrow? Is it courage that makes bureaucracy, arms deals and stockpiling nukes a virtually unchangeable 'given' for our country? Isn't it about time to ask if our military leaders ever knew what they were doing, instead of writing stories about how they're evolving their strategies? I mean, compared to the enemy they don't quite shine at that. So what gives? Are they perhaps in something other than a war they can actually succeed in? Looks that way to 64% of us.

[dadw5boys]

THEY HAVE BEEN FIGHTING IN THE MIDDLE EAST OVER 900 YEARS !!!!

WHAT DIFFERENCE CAN WE MAKE THERE; THIS IS HOW THEY CHOOSE TO LIVE!!!!!!!!!!

[bushdoescrack]

THIS IS HOW THEY CHOOSE TO LIVE!!!!!!!!!!



who is "they"? and why are americans fighting in a country that had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11?

[baylaw73]

Overly simplistic and very, very dangerous view. They haven't chosen how to live for decades, sir. See, e.g., the U.S. overthrew of a democratic­ally-elect­ed Iranian government in the 1950s. Your comment belies ignorance and perhaps racism, if not cultural elitism.

[whimsicalpig]

How about 5000 years.

Remember the Hittites, the Assyrians, the Babylonians etc.

I think these people have learned a thing or two about warfare, it all began there

[BPCentrisAmerican]

Bush said last week he dose not make policy decisions according to polls. After 2 years of opinion polls averaging 32% and 1 out 4 people think the war is not worth the cost in blood and treasure, I would say the jury is in, and the people have spoken, in a true representative democracy that’s pretty definitive. The 24% crowd constantly call into C-Span and announce that we are a Republic, not a Democracy, if that is true than what we trying to accomplish in Iraq, if we don’t practice it here. s

[olivia]

Bush doesn't make any policy decisions. He doesn't decide when to go to the potty.

The PNAC people make policy decisions based on what is profitable for them in the short and long term. They don't care about the polls, the Republican party, or America.

[LastDaysCafe]

Name just One Accomplishment that Bush's Iraq Oil War has Achieved for America's Citizens?

As someone else said: "I'd like Bush,Cheney or Rice to confirm or demonstrate just one single positive "achievement" or thing,that the Iraq War has accomplished for America's citizens?

I'm sure the American taxpayers,the people who had to pick up all the bills for Bush's Iraq Oil War, they would really like to know or be shown just one positive thing that this long,bloody and expensive Iraq War has achieved for them!!!

[Lemeritus]

Haven't you been paying attention? We have given the Iraqis 'freedom' -- from electricity, running water, the ability to safely go to the market, and from prospering from their own resources. "The advance of freedom," Mr. Bush has said, "is the calling of our time."

Iraq was once bent under a "a legacy of torture, oppression, misery, and ruin." But, perhaps I've misremembered the speech, perhaps Mr. Bush was talking about the legacy he leaves America.

[mediamarv]

The decider says it was worth the lives lost... didn't you get the memo???

Imagine an informed public making up its own mind!

It could happen.

[shhhhhhh]

the worst thing you can say to a republican or fox news watcher is, "I make up my own mind."

they are just amazed by the independence of thinking on your own. I call these folks, "Gerber-Americans". Give them a spoon-ful and then they go play.

[shhhhhhh]

damn straight. what could we do with the 16 billion dollars a month spent in Iraq ? schools ? hospitals ? social security ? going broke my ass !! college edcations for how many people ? the list goes o.

gwb, prick cheney and all that subscribe to this crap are morally bankrupt. i hope these folks don't go to church. no need. we know where they are all going.

[Mercedes]

You people that voted for Bush twice, and agreed with his invasion of Iraq are to be held partly responsible for this insanity. No excuses!

[pigsatthetrough]

Most Americans say the war not worth it. I guess they just don't listen to Bush.

[wadenelson1]

If 64% of Americans believe it's a mistake and should be ended, then we're right about where we were in Vietnam immediately after the Tet offensive. (1967? 1968?) Like the groundhog seeing his shadow, that means we should only have about five more years of this war to go.

[transendentilist]

68

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

I am amazed and appalled that Iraq Nam polls at 29-64, while McSame polls at roughly 45-50.

Aside from the 29% Kool-Aid chuggler lost causes, who ARE these delusional 16% of Americans who think McSAME won't DELIVER on his promise of MORE OF THE SAME?

Maybe I should throw onto that pile the 7% who just haven't seen enough of the Iraqupation -- and the associated national debt -- to make up their friggin minds.

[Wilbur]

Those 16%-ers are called "independe­nts." They are given great credit for intelligence by the likes of Chrissy-boy Matthews, Timmy-boy Russert, etc., ad nauseum, when in reality these "independents" are intellectually lazy knuckleheads who are woefully ill-informed about matters. THEY are the ones who gravitate to McCain.

Wilbur

[olivia]

20% of Americans are so dumb and illiterate and so insulated they will never see the truth. You can just write them off. Bush's approval rating will never go below that.

So we are at 9% whose continued support is difficult to fathom. I imagine those are people who are very rich and completely amoral.

[Citizen54]

Unfortunately, many of our fellow citizens are buying into the notion that McSame will keep us safe. (And that, my friends, is what the election will be about.) We are easily bamboozled.