New poll – mixed bag
Polling is interesting. If you ask Americans how is the president doing his job. I think that’s a good question. Everyone in the US should have an opinion of how the president is doing. Even if that opinion is based on bad information. On the other hand, the War in Iraq is a complex matter. How many Americans are keeping up with the different insurgent groups? How many Americans know that Al Qaeda in Iraq is not the same group as Al Qaeda of Bin Laden fame? Al Qaeda in Iraq was not trained by Bin Laden instead they are a terrorist group with a great “brand” name.
Many Americans at the time of this poll were probably not aware that US troops were ambushed by Iraq police, that we trained, and insurgents. Training the Iraq police force is now a problem. Are we training folks who are going to work with the insurgents to kill us?
We need an immediate withdrawal of all US combat forces from Iraq. We need to engage Iraq’s neighbors including Iran. They have to be part of the solution. We need to send a large number of our troops to Afghanistan. There will be violence in Iraq after we leave. There is violence now. There is a lot of violence now. After we leave Al Qaeda will be driven out by Shia, Sunni and Kurds. There will be a struggle for power. It is unclear if democracy will survive in Iraq but we must leave. We can no long afford to stay.
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margaret
