CNN Poll: Six In Ten Want U.S. Troops Out Of Iraq Now Or Within A Year.

    Another poll, this one done by CNN, finds that 46% of Americans believe that the United States can't win in Iraq. 37% think that the U.S. can win and 29% says that things are going well in Iraq, an all time low.

   This is the first time in four years that the majority of Americans have said that we cannot win this war.

Nearly six in 10 of those polled want to see U.S. troops leave Iraq either immediately or within a year, and more would rather have Congress running U.S. policy in the conflict than President Bush.

The CNN poll was conducted Friday through Sunday by Opinion Research Corp. Pollsters interviewed 1,027 adults for the survey, which had a sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Though support for Bush's decision to dispatch additional troops to Iraq grew to 37 percent -- up 5 percent from a mid-January poll -- 52 percent say Congress should block funding for the new deployment.

     See the Poll results

   I sure hope that many of our people in Congress see this poll since they seem to always come up with the " Americans do not want the funding cut or stopped " excuse for the reason that they do not try this tact.

 

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Edwards Voted For War Authorization On Advice Of advisor's?

    In a new book which is to be published in June by Simon & Schuster, Democratic strategist Bob Shrum writes that presidential hopeful John Edwards was pushed into voting for the Iraq war resolution by his advisors who were looking out for Edwards political future.

   Shrum says that he regrets telling Edwards to vote yes on the authority giving Bush the war authority and that if he would have listened to his instincts instead of the professionals, he would have been a stronger candidate back in 2004.     Source

Edwards said he had "no idea" what meeting Shrum was talking about. He said he hasn't read the book, so he could not address specific details.

"It was not a political calculation," Edwards told reporters after an appearance at Bennett College in Greensboro, N.C. "It was a mistake."

But Shrum said the consensus among the advisers was that Edwards, just four years in office, did not have the credibility to vote against the resolution and had to support it to be taken seriously on national security. Shrum said Edwards' facial expressions showed he did not like where he was being pushed to go.

   It would seem as if John Edwards has learned alot since 2004 as he has become much more outspoken since then and he has grown some attitude. Good for you, Mr. Edwards!

 

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