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 News from Around the Americas | February 2007 
Poll: Majority Americans Oppose Bush's New Iraq Plan
 Xinhuanet
| | Demonstrators protest against the war in Iraq asking US President George W. Bush to bring US troops home and to stop funding the war, in Los Angeles. (AFP/Gabriel Bouys) |
A poll shows that six in 10 Americans oppose President George Bush's plan to use more troops to try to stabilize Iraq, a nearly equal number also oppose any effort to cut off funding for those additional forces, USA Today reported Monday.
The poll, taken by USA Today and Gallup from Friday through Sunday, showed Americans overwhelmingly supported congressional action to cap the number of U.S. troops in Iraq and set a timetable to bring them home by the end of 2008. Discontent with the Iraq war played a major part in the Democratic Party' takeover of U.S. Congress in the November elections in 2006.
Among the findings, there was majority support for congressional action on Iraq: 51 percent backed a non-binding resolution, 57 percent a cap on troop levels and 63 percent a timetable to withdraw all U.S. troops by the end of 2008.
Seven of 10 said their representative's vote on the war would affect their vote in the next congressional election; more than four in 10 called it a major factor. However, nearly two-thirds were not sure where their representative stood on the issue, according to the poll.
"They're saying the same thing they said in the 2006 elections, which they are against the current policy and they want something done about it," said James Thurber, director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University.
"They want Congress to debate it; they want Congress to focus on it; they want to bring this war to a close," said Mark Blumenthal, a former Democratic pollster. "We don't want to deny our armed services what they need to do their jobs, but we'd like to bring them home." |
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