Most Americans, indeed most people in the West, would not, I think, support an immediate withdrawal from Iraq ...
Most of the polls seem to show otherwise, though. Here's the latest CBS/NYTimes poll:
42 percent are willing to have U.S troops remain in Iraq for only a year or less. 21 percent say troops should stay for one to two years more, while 30 percent are willing to keep troops in Iraq longer than two years.
Rasmussen has been polling this since last year, and they've consistently shown that at least 59% of Americans want to withdraw troops in the next year.
You can see various other polls on this, which take a broadly consistent position.
The American electorate seems to agree, and Hillary, with her better ear for the common man and woman, made electoral hay of it.
Really? My impression was that Clinton's plan was essentially the same as Obama's, and that her responses to the questions during the debate (i.e., would she keep continuing the withdrawal regardless of conditions on the ground?) were basically the same as well.
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Date: 2008-06-05 04:49 pm (UTC)Most of the polls seem to show otherwise, though. Here's the latest CBS/NYTimes poll:
Rasmussen has been polling this since last year, and they've consistently shown that at least 59% of Americans want to withdraw troops in the next year.
You can see various other polls on this, which take a broadly consistent position.
The American electorate seems to agree, and Hillary, with her better ear for the common man and woman, made electoral hay of it.
Really? My impression was that Clinton's plan was essentially the same as Obama's, and that her responses to the questions during the debate (i.e., would she keep continuing the withdrawal regardless of conditions on the ground?) were basically the same as well.