CNN Poll: 9% believe "U.S. Mission in Iraq has been Accomplished"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Three years after President Bush declared major combat over in Iraq, Americans have strong doubts that the United States will fulfill the promise of his "Mission Accomplished" backdrop, a poll released Monday found.

The CNN poll, conducted April 21-23 by Opinion Research Corporation, found that only 9 percent thought the U.S. mission in Iraq had been accomplished, while another 40 percent believed it would be complete someday.

Another 44 percent said the United States would never accomplish its goals in Iraq, where American troops are still battling insurgents three years after the invasion that toppled former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. The poll had a sampling error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.

Bush's May 1, 2003, victory speech aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln was a carefully managed piece of political theater, from his flight suit-clad arrival aboard an S-3 Viking antisubmarine jet to the "Mission Accomplished" banner that hung from the carrier's bridge. "My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed, and now our coalition is engaged in securing and reconstructing that country," Bush said.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/01/iraq.poll/index.html

[Dinger]

1. They Probably Believe The World Is Flat Too

Absolutely hopeless fucking cases, hopeless.

[babylonsister]

2. WHO are those idjit 9%ers? And it should read A Whopping

91% of the American public believe "U.S. Mission in Iraq has NOT been Accomplished".

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

5. Well, yes and no...

...I'm equally concerned about this:

"40 percent believed it would be complete someday..."

So 9% believe it's already happened, and another 40% believe in "staying the course"...all in all, 49% who are behind Junior (or who support the troops whether they support Bush or not)...

:patriot:

[deutsey]

3. Remember back in the '90s when NBC (I think) did a TV movie

about an alien (i.e., extraterrestial) invasion of earth? It was like an unfolding news broadcast (in fact, I think it was called "Special Bulletin"). NBC ran a scrawl during the broadcast and before and after going to a commercial break that stated this is just a movie, not a real news broadcast.

From what I remember, the network still received hundreds of panic-stricken calls from viewers who thought it was a real news broadcast.

There are just some very gullible people out there and that's what has worked in Bush's favor these past six years.

[Missy M]

4. That's the news clip the media should be playing over and...

over everyday, instead of the Bush trying to be a comedian clip. The MSM is totally inept, with a few exceptions.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

7. The Media: Chris Matthews & Lou Dobbs, Weekend of May 3 - 4, 2003:

http://www.msnbc.com/modules/chrismatthews/050303.asp?0cb=-s1W109515

MATTHEWS: Let's go to this sub--what happened to this week, which was to me was astounding as a student of politics, like all of us. Lights, camera, action. This week the president landed the best photo op in a very long time. Other great visuals: Ronald Reagan at the D-Day cemetery in Normandy, Bill Clinton on horseback in Wyoming. Nothing compared to this, I've got to say.

Katty, for visual, the president of the United States arriving in an F-18, looking like he flew it in himself. The GIs, the women on--onboard that ship loved this guy.

Ms. KAY: He looked great. Look, I'm not a Bush man. I mean, he doesn't do it for me personally, especially not when he's in a suit, but he arrived there...

MATTHEWS: No one would call you a Bush man, by the way.

Ms. KAY: ...he arrived there in his flight suit, in a jumpsuit. He should wear that all the time. Why doesn't he do all his campaign speeches in that jumpsuit? He just looks so great.

MATTHEWS: I want him to wa--I want to see him debate somebody like John Kerry or Lieberman or somebody wearing that jumpsuit.

Mr. DOBBS: Well, it was just--I can't think of any, any stunt by the White House--and I'll call it a stunt--that has come close. I mean, this is not only a home run; the ball is still flying out beyond the park.

MATTHEWS: Well, you know what, it was like throwing that strike in Yankee Stadium a while back after 9/11. It's not a stunt if it works and it's real. And I felt the faces of those guys--I thought most of our guys were looking up like they were looking at Bob Hope and John Wayne combined on that ship.

Mr. GIGOT: The reason it works is because of--the reason it works is because Bush looks authentic and he felt that he--you could feel the connection with the troops. He looked like he was sincere. People trust him. That's what he has going for him.

MATTHEWS: Fareed, you're watching that from--say you were over in the Middle East watching the president of the United States on this humongous aircraft carrier. It looks like it could take down Syria just one boat, right, and the president of the United States is pointing a finger and saying, `You people with the weapons of mass destruction, you people backing terrorism, look out. We're coming.' Do you think that picture mattered over there?

Mr. ZAKARIA: Oh yeah. Look, this is a part of the war where we have not--we've allowed a lot of states to do some very nasty stuff, traffic with nasty people and nasty material, and I think it's time to tell them, you know what, `You're going to be help accountable for this.'

MATTHEWS: Well, it was a powerful statement and picture as well.

[Missy M]

10. Their comments are nauseating to say the least....

I wish we could make them all listen to their own comments everyday, non-stop. TV pundits are the ruination of this country and I don't give a damn what any of them have to say, nor do I want their opinions. I have yet to figure out why all of the above were so taken with that silly little stunt of Karl Rove's.

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. The US mission in Iraq has been accomplished.

It has nothing to do with the list of non-sequiturs in *'s speech. The mission was to enflame the oil producing region, causing a sharp rise in the price per barrel, which the oil companies had already contracted for at @$30 a barrel, guaranteeing them obscene profits for the forseeable future.

Mission accomplished.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

8. You're right...the PNAC Mission has been Accomplished.

It's got nothing to do with purple fingers. It's got everything to do with a neoconservative new world order. But purple fingers sell better to the unwashed masses glued to their TVs...

:patriot:

[Left Below]

9. Of course the Mission is Accomplished.....

The World Bank has loaned the new Iraqi government $685 million backed by................... you guessed it - oil reserves.


Prices for gas in Iraq are up 10x.

When they default, the reserves go into recievership.

Mission Accomplished!

Thank you, soldiers. For preserving American "values" with your cheap lives.

[Supersedeas]

13. it is a plausible theory...not to be heard on network news but neither is

Colbert

[ComerPerro]

11. Only 40% think it will ever be accomplished?

LMAO.

Lets see, lets be generous and say 35% of the country approves of Bush. They are ALL of the 9%, and the remaining make up the 40%.

That means that outside of Bush's hardcore, believing base, only about 14% of the country thinks there will ever be "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq..


Pretty sad...


And those people, the 14%, are probably just being optimistic...

[0007]

12. Let's have a poll on a "Nuclear Winter" and who do you

think will nuke who first, 'eh?

That's what this is all leading up to, isn't it?

How will life exists after a Nuclear war? We all know how the wealthy will burrow deep into their well stocked bunkers.

[Mountainman]

14. I remember a freeper thread that was about how the plane W flew in was

going to be put in a museum in FL and some feepers were planning to take a vacation so they could go to the museum to touch the plane.

Sorta like the face of Jesus on a coffee cup. Pilgrims are going there to touch the coffee cup.

[Jacobin]

15. Stop and think about that for a moment.............

9 percent is almost One out of Ten polled. That's a LOT of damn people who are dumber than a fricking sack of hammers......MILLIONS of them.

Makes me wanna stay indoors.

[incapsulated]

16. And they all work for Haliburton. n/t

[Proud Liberal Dem]

17. Well, isn't it???

Prior to the invasion, Bush's STATED "goals" (if you will) for invading Iraq were supposedly to secure and/or destroy Iraqi WMDs(which was apparently done even BEFORE we stepped foot in Iraq), removing Saddam Hussein and his regime from power, and installing a US-style democratic government. By my observation, each and every one of these things seem to have been accomplished to date. I'm not saying that any of these things were necessary or desirable in the first place(I was anti-war from the start) nor that any of these things were even done "well," especially by this gang of idiots and "yes-men" masquerading as the so-called "leaders" of our country. I'm just pointing out that the goals that were laid out by Bush HAVE apparently been "accomplished." So, why are our troops still over there WITH NO APPARENT END IN SIGHT? Bush is even suggesting that we might still be in Iraq until AFTER he leaves office! :mad: I think that we should either just declare victory and quickly bring our tired and battle-weary troops back home to their families (got "family values" anybody?) or Bush really needs to be clear with us about what exactly our "exit strategy" (which he and other Republicans seemed to think was so important when Clinton was President) is, something that he has been curiously and frustratingly "vague" about. Frankly, I'm not even sure if he knows or even cares about Iraq anymore, especailly since he seems to have recently turned his attention towards Iran in the not-so-unfamiliar manner with which he treated Bin Laden just after starting his big push for war in Iraq. :eyes: If the mission has NOT been accomplished, what more needs to be "accomplished"?