60% oppose the Iraq war

[QueenAdrock]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/09/iraq.poll/index.html

And yet another poll shows that 50% believe that they didn't have WMD's, 50% do. So I think that says something about the other 10% who think there WERE WMD's in Iraq and are against the war.

[valvano]

is this the same CNN that admitted to hiding Iraq autrocities in order to keep their press credentials while Sadam was still in power?

http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/critiques/CNNs_Iraqi_Cover-Up.asp

[QueenAdrock]

Yeah, I guess you're right. CNN is lying to all of us, and the poll is therefore completely inaccurate. :rolleyes:

So are you trying to say you think majority of the people DO support the war?

[yeahwho]

Maybe they felt the UN inspection teams that were in Iraq searching for WMD for 4 months previously would find them without annihilating the infrastructure and killing the innocent. The International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA reported a level of compliance by Iraq with the disarmament requirements previous to the March 20th 2003 invasion.

A lot of international laws appeared to be broken to get to the point of declaring war on Iraq, I'm no legal expert but the internet does site many cases that are nicely compiled on wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimacy_of_the_2003_invasion_of_Iraq).

I am giving this 10% the benefit of the doubt and going with the belief that they felt war was illegal and a road to ruin both in a humane and diplomatic sense.

And also that they possess ping pong ball heads.

Some of the information out there say's that Ironically during the conflict, the United States' used depleted uranium ammunition in tank and aircraft cannon, which can disperse radioactive material upon striking hardened targets, and white phosphorous, an incendiary compound. Both radiological weapons and chemical weapons are classified as weapons of mass destruction, although DU is not classified as radiological, and WP is not classified as a chemical weapon.

Intelligence and brilliance is limited, stupidity has limitless boundarys.

[QueenAdrock]

And PS, here's another link. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/09/AR2006080900405.html)

But maybe Washington Post and CNN are in on it together! I bet they're both lying. Everyone loves this war, dammit.

[SobaViolence]

americans are fucking hopeless.
and jesus ain't coming back to help.

[TimDoolan]

Polls don't mean anything. They're nothing but thinly veiled political editorials. I really don't trust them.

[Jitters]

I can't wait for the next president, people are either going to love him or hate him worse than they do Bush, seeing as how Bush won't pull out the troops it will all be on the next presidents shoulders.

[STANKY808]

...and WP is not classified as a chemical weapon.


Apparently it depends on what you use WP for...

Professor Paul Rogers, of the University of Bradford's department of peace studies, told the BBC that white phosphorus could probably be considered a chemical weapon if deliberately aimed at civilians.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4441902.stm

[Documad]

I think it's really hard to write a poll question to fit everyone's feelings about the war.

I have to believe that just about everyone knows that it was a bad idea at this point, but when what do you want: cut off funding immediately vs. set a timetable vs. move troops to one corner, etc etc etc. I don't know what I'd do at this point given the horrible state of affairs. Except that I'd string up the heads of the corporations who are making a profit by serving more meals than there are soldiers and who failed to build any of the shit they were paid to build over there.

[QueenAdrock]

Polls don't mean anything. They're nothing but thinly veiled political editorials. I really don't trust them.

"But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in "reality." And reality has a well-known liberal bias." -Stephen Colbert
:D

[valvano]

i'd much prefer to have a president, be they dem, rep, ind, etc, that makes decisions based on knowledge, insight, past history, etc than what the most current opinion poll says...

we do not want to see our democracy turned into a glorified version of American Idol

:)

[EN[i]GMA]

Matt Taibbi's take on polls: http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/23442/

[Schmeltz]

i'd much prefer to have a president, be they dem, rep, ind, etc, that makes decisions based on knowledge, insight, past history, etc


And yet you voted for Bush...

[valvano]

And yet you voted for Bush...


Wrong. I voted Libertarian you dumbfuck.

Don't ASSUME, you make an ASS of U but not of ME

:p

[Schmeltz]

Really? I could have sworn you had mentioned something about voting for Bush, or gloating about the election results. Well then! I doff my hat to you, sirrah.