CNN Poll: Most still think Iraq war a mistake after al-Zarqawi death

[DeepModem Mom]

Poll: Most still think Iraq war a mistake
Number of Americans optimistic inches up after al-Zarqawi death
Monday, June 12, 2006

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- More Americans expressed optimism about the war in Iraq after the killing of terrorist mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, suggests a CNN poll released Monday, but a majority still believes the invasion was a mistake.

The poll found 43 percent of respondents said the war is going either very or moderately well, up from 38 percent in a March poll.

Fifty-four percent said they still believe the war is going either very badly or moderately badly, down from 60 percent in March.

And 55 percent said they believe the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 was an error -- a figure unchanged from an April survey.

The survey of 1,031 adults was taken Thursday through Sunday by Opinion Research Corp. for CNN. The poll's sampling error was plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian-born leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, was killed by a U.S. airstrike on a house north of Baghdad on Wednesday....

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/12/iraq.poll/index.html

[leveymg]

1. Six percent will always go with the flow.

This sounds about right, for once.

[Smarmie Doofus]

10. Try *sixty*. n/t

[BrotherBuzz]

2. Dead cat bounce for....

Commander Cuckoo Bananas

[SpiralHawk]

3. Most people, except those gathered with Commander AWOL at Camp David

nt

[Rex]

4. CNN shrills for the BFEE.

Sorry, no. Most people still think it was a WAR CRIME (mistake, nice try) to invade Iraq over a lie.

[ovidsen]

5. No, you CAN'T fool all of the people all of the time. n/t

[AX10]

6. "dead cat bounce"

That is all.

[6000eliot]

7. Who would be stupid enough to fall for that idea?

[CoffeeCat]

8. These poll results suck...

The pResident got a modest bump in the "How's the war going?" question. 54 percent said it's going very/moderately badly--whereas 60 percent thought this in March. Also, 43 percent said the war is going very/moderately well--up 5 percent since March.

I'd like to throttle these people who are persuaded by such nonsense. I'm sure this has Junior and his new strategizers high five-ing each other. These rats shouldn't be basking in any good poll news right now. I'm so sick of these nimrods. They must sit around--waiting for something to happen--so they can change their mind once again.

The war was based on lies. It is a sham. Soldiers and innocent Iraqi civilians are dying for no good reason. I can't imagine that ANYONE would think that the war is going well. I'm even more outraged that the administration's latest PR blitz can have any impact at all.

I get ashamed when I see this.

We'll see where the polls are in a few weeks---when the violence is unchanged (or exacerbated).

[young_at_heart]

9. I guess there will always be people who support war...no matter what

Cal Thomas certainly is in favor of continued war....the evil-doers must be eliminated!

[saigon68]

11. That's the Fundamentalist Christian Crusader opinion

DEATH TO THE INFIDELS

[GoddessOfGuinness]

12. Was Zarqawi in Iraq before the invasion?

Or did he slip across the border after Dumbyass' ill-thought, ill-legal blunder?