The United States seems to loose their so-called ‘war against terror’ even before the war has come to close in Iraq. Not only the opposition, Democrats, has condemned the war put up by the Bush (Republican) government in Iraq and demanded the gradual withdrawal of the US troops, about half of the American people believe that the United States could not win the eventual war, eradication of the Islamic militancy and proper rehabilitation of millions of Iraqis ravaged by the war, in Iraq. And not to talk about the world community, apart from the West, that has completely ruled out the Iraqi military incursion by the US troops and labeled it as an unholy war.
According to a CNN poll, the first since the war began four years ago:
* Forty-six percent said the United States could not win the eventual war in Iraq.
* Less than half of Americans think the United States can win the war in Iraq.
* Thirty-seven percent said the United States will in fact win the war in Iraq, whereas 54 percent said it will not.
* Twenty-nine percent said things were going well in Iraq (an all-time low).
* Fifty-four percent of Americans believes that Bush administration deliberately misled Americans about whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
* About six out of ten of those polled want to see U.S. troops leave Iraq either immediately or within a year.
* Fifty-two percent Americans said Congress should block funding for the new deployment, whereas 43 percent opposed such a move.
* Fifty-nine percent opposed the president’s troop increase.
* Fifty-one percent reported a favorable opinion of the Democratic Party, compared to 47 percent who accepted the Republican Party positively.
* Fifty-nine percent said a Democratic Party-controlled Congress was a good thing.
The poll was accomplished by Opinion Research Corp. Pollsters consulting 1,027 adults for the survey that had a sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Support of the Americans for the US presidents’ decision to dispatch additional troops to Iraq may have increased to 37 percent, 5 percent up from a mid-January poll; the latest survey suggests that most of the Americans want Congress to break through and shoulder the ‘primarily responsible’ for directing the war policy.
Democrats have severely opposed and planning to challenge the so-called extended security plan by passing a bill that would set a schedule for U.S. troops to withdraw, possibly by fall 2008 or by the end of this year, if Iraqi authorities and government fail to meet time limit for taking liability to look after their nation on their own.
