{"id":182,"date":"2005-12-14T14:12:09","date_gmt":"2005-12-14T20:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/mission-accomplished\/"},"modified":"2005-12-15T00:04:27","modified_gmt":"2005-12-15T06:04:27","slug":"mission-accomplished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/mission-accomplished\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission \r\n\r\nAccomplished?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Read the following polls of <\/p>\n

Iraqis and Americans (3 different polls). Note that half of Iraqis say the US invasion was wrong; about the same number of Americans <\/p>\n

agree. But more than 2\/3rds of Iraqis oppose our continued presence (77% according to the DOD).<\/p>\n

Yet, we will stay and continue <\/p>\n

dying and killing — adding to the ranks of those who hate us. Maybe BushCo shouldn’t be allowed to fuck things up further. Impeach the <\/p>\n

whole incompetent gang. mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

ABC News: Poll: Most Iraqis Oppose Troops’ Presence<\/a><\/p>\n

More than <\/p>\n

two-thirds of those [Iraqis] surveyed oppose the presence of troops from the United States and its coalition partners and less than half, <\/p>\n

44 percent, say their country is better off now than it was before the war, according to an ABC News poll conducted with Time magazine <\/p>\n

and other media partners. …<\/p>\n

Half now say the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was wrong, up from 39 percent in February 2004. …<\/p>\n

A fourth of those surveyed, 26 percent, say U.S. forces should leave now, and another 19 percent say troops should leave after those <\/p>\n

chosen in this week’s election take office. …<\/p>\n

The poll was conducted by Oxford Research International face-to-face with 1,711 <\/p>\n

Iraqis age 15 and over from Oct. 8 to Nov. 22. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 2.5 percentage points. <\/p>\n

DefenseLINK News: Poll Shows Nine in 10 Iraqis Want to Vote Dec. <\/p>\n

15<\/a><\/p>\n

A total of 77 percent of those [Iraqis] surveyed oppose the presence of coalition forces in Iraq, and almost half said they <\/p>\n

believe there is a rationale for attacks on coalition forces, with 40 percent saying there is no excuse for such attacks.<\/p>\n

CNN.com – <\/p>\n

Poll: U.S. can win war, but won’t – Dec 13, 2005<\/a><\/p>\n

Forty-eight percent of those [Americans] polled said they thought it was a <\/p>\n

mistake to send U.S. troops to Iraq, as opposed to 54 percent of those polled last month. Fifty percent said it was not a mistake, <\/p>\n

compared to 45 percent last month. …<\/p>\n

The poll, released Tuesday, was conducted with 1,003 Americans who were interviewed by <\/p>\n

phone. The sampling error varied from question to question, but none had a margin of error exceeding 4.5 percentage points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Read the following polls of Iraqis and Americans (3 different polls). Note that half of Iraqis say the US invasion was wrong; about the same number of Americans agree. But more than 2\/3rds of Iraqis oppose our continued presence (77% according to the DOD). Yet, we will stay and continue dying and killing — adding … Continue reading Mission <\/p>\n

Accomplished?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}