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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 12:11 PM
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Lou Dobbs Poll: On Iraq: Withdraw, Stay the Course, or Change Strategy?
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/

On the issue of Iraq, do you believe the United States should:

Withdraw 51%

Stay the course 7%

Change strategy 42%

With over 8,000 votes.

Good for Lou for asking the question!
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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 12:12 PM
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1. Ooops!
heh
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Solidarity Donating Member (518 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 12:15 PM
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2. Holding Steady For Withdrawl

Withdraw 51% 4095 votes

Stay the course 7% 573 votes

Change strategy 42% 3430 votes

Total: 8098 votes

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Supormom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 12:16 PM
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3. Still the same.
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 12:18 PM
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4. anyone else smell burning toast...?
bwhahaha.... Bush. Is. Finished.

A one-term loser of historic proportions. Unfortunately, cleaning up his steaming mess is going to be a monumental job.
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NeonLX Donating Member (472 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 12:30 PM
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6. Nah! You're underestimating the ignorance of the sheeple.
USA USA USA!!

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tandot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 12:26 PM
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5. withdraw 51% ... who are those 7% who said stay the course?
All those people who watch Fox 24/7?
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Solidarity Donating Member (518 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 12:34 PM
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9. Stay The Course!

Didn't John Kerry say "stay the course" and we must not "cut and run" from Vietnam ..... I mean Iraq?

Well, I hope he changes his position and takes a position in favor our bringing our troops home from Iraq. I don't think he will get the votes of very many GI's and their loved ones if he continues to support the occupation of Iraq.
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damnraddem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 01:24 PM
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20. Wording is always an issue.
Kerry clearly does believe in a change in strategy -- unlike Dubya. But both are on the wrong side, as 51% of the respondents here realize.
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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 12:41 PM
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12. Battle seems between Change Course and Withdraw
An Iraqi doctor interviewed on CNN right after the initial phase of the war that they wanted us to stabilize the country and get out--instead we remain there and are building military bases (14 as I recall)-- and to what end?

Iraq is in chaos. We ought not to "cut and run". We owe stability to the Iraqi people--a task made infinitely harder by the way Bush has waged the war--the latest failures of leadership at Abu Ghraib are not limited to the low ranking reserve personnel, military intelligence and OGA (other government agencies, aka CIA)--they go all the way to the top--Rummy and Bush.
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 12:44 PM
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13. I'd like to see a poll of just the two choices...
"Withdraw" vs. "Stay the course"

I think it would be very telling if the "Change strategy" folks had to choose from these two selections...
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AgentLadyBug Donating Member (212 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 01:12 PM
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16. that would be called a "false dichotomy".....
... and a somewhat ill-advised one, imo, since it leaves out the best general course of action.....
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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 03:56 PM
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25. We owe the Iraqi people an effort to make it right in Iraq.
Edited on Tue May-11-04 03:57 PM by flpoljunkie
We need to really change course--truly internationalize the effort--if our troops are to have any chance to succeed in their mission to "bring democracy to Iraq."

Will Bush do this? Can we ever hope to bring democracy to Iraq at the point of a gun? Iraq seems to be spiraling out of control. Where will it end?

Many questions--few, if any answers.
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w13rd0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 12:33 PM
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7. So 93% disagree with Bush's "plan" (or lack thereof)...
...that's encouraging.
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NewYorkerfromMass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 01:19 PM
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18. Yes. It's a blowout.
There is no "course" to stay.
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freetobegay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 12:33 PM
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8. I voted withdraw!
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 12:38 PM
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10. Same here
Edited on Tue May-11-04 12:39 PM by RebelOne
I think we need to get out of there ASAP. We don't need any more deaths, either American or Iraqi.

On edit: Give them back their oil, too.
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 12:41 PM
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11. how about a partial withdrawal?
We keep enough troops there to prevent outright civil war that would happen if we had a total withdrawal, but leave Iraq to the Iraqis...

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Solidarity Donating Member (518 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 12:53 PM
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14. Where?
And where would they withdraw too? Kuwait would be good.

A "partial" withdrawl just wouldn't work. Some have asked how U.S. troops can be withdrawn from Iraq. That one's simple. Use planes and boats!
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 01:06 PM
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15. withdrawn to the US
Keep maybe 15,000 to 20,000 troops in place in Iraq to keep the Kurds, Shiites and Sunni from outright civil war...

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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 01:14 PM
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17. Yeah that's the ticket ...keep using that Stay the course line dubya
Bawahahahahahahahahaha!
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central scrutinizer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 01:22 PM
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19. There is a course? Who knew?
Oh, now I remember: Iraqis dancing in the streets with their liberators.
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 01:25 PM
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21. Wha-wha-WHAAAAT??? A Lou Dobbs Poll With More Than Two Choices??
How can this be??

I thought all CNN polls only offered yes/no, black/white, forus/aginus type of answers.

Amazing.

-- Allen
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Solidarity Donating Member (518 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 01:43 PM
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22. Still 51% For Withdrawl!

On the issue of Iraq, do you believe the United States should:

Withdraw 51% 4392 votes

Stay the course 7% 619 votes

Change strategy 42% 3626 votes

Total: 8637 votes

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Karenina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 02:07 PM
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23. Job One.
Get the rapist out of the room. The "American" *MIC is a RAPIST.
What it's MPs have perpetrated on Iraqi females ROUNDED UP IN GENERAL SWEEPS OFF THE STREETS (think: your local mall) is RAPE (think: YOUR daughter, wife, mom, neice, NEPHEW!!!! Dare I mention son? It was common knowledge before the invasion that 50% of Iraq's population was younger than 16).

*CNN polls, trolls, schmolls...
EVERYBODY be watching you landfreehomebrave Typs...
You simply cannot, collectively support TORTURE to support a military invasion propelled by LIES. PUHLEESE say it ain't so.

It IS bizarre, eh? To reach folks with the PLAIN TRUTH is getting increasingly difficult... hmmm.. wasn't there a publication, I mean WAY BACK in da wayback with that handle?

All I can say is if Americans want to retain their reputation as "basically good folks" they need to repudiate *dauphin & C$O$R$P$ Toot-der-sweet. (Dat lass bit be da Fonetic cheese-eating surrender monkey lingo... Diplomatic, u.s.w. Translation into plain Ami-speak: NOW) Are SO many simply unwilling to connect.the.dots?

Has American "EMPATHY" become so lost? If so, I believe you've declared your racism TRUMP SUIT.
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Solidarity Donating Member (518 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 02:41 PM
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24. Still 51%!

On the issue of Iraq, do you believe the United States should:

Withdraw 51% 4545 votes

Stay the course 7% 645 votes

Change strategy 42% 3745 votes

Total: 8935 votes

I would imagine we will see a huge surge in voting once the Lou Dobbs show actually airs. That's 6-7 PM EST
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Solidarity Donating Member (518 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 05:03 PM
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26. Vote Now If You Haven't Yet!

On the issue of Iraq, do you believe the United States should:

Withdraw 50% 5052 votes

Stay the course 7% 720 votes

Change strategy 42% 4244 votes

Total: 10016 votes

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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 05:21 PM
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27. Hey, they changed the question! Now it says
Edited on Tue May-11-04 05:22 PM by librechik
Are you offended by the lack of outrage by Arab media and governments over the killing and mutilation of Americans in Iraq?

Good grief, how do you even answer a qusetion like that? Yes or No?



Thank you Inhofe!
You have succeeded in changing the subject.

DAMN!
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Solidarity Donating Member (518 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-04 06:51 PM
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28. Well I'll Be!
They didn't like the way the vote was going on withdrawl so they changed the question!
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