NBC: Not Worth It: Huge Majority Regret Iraq War, Exclusive Poll Shows

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A divided nation finally agrees on something overwhelmingly: the war in Iraq was simply not worth fighting.

Seventy-one percent of Americans now say that the war in Iraq “wasn’t worth it,” a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Annenberg poll shows, with skepticism about the lengthy war effort up substantially even in the last 18 months.

Just 22 percent now believe the 2003 war effort was worthwhile.

In a January 2013 NBC/Wall Street Journal poll asking the same question, 59 percent of Americans said the war wasn’t worth it, versus 35 percent who said the opposite.

Half of respondents also said that the United States does not have a responsibility to help the Iraqi government as the country descends into sectarian violence, while 43 percent said that America should intervene.

Americans are even more pessimistic about Iraq – where insurgent groups now threaten to overpower the government – than about the war in Afghanistan. An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll earlier this month showed that 27 percent of respondents said the Afghan conflict was worth it, versus 65 percent who disagreed. Negativity about Iraq appears to rival that of the Vietnam War; three Gallup polls conducted from 1999-2000 found that about 7 in 10 Americans believe that 1970s war was a “mistake.”

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/iraq-turmoil/not-worth-it-huge-majority-regret-iraq-war-exclusive-poll-n139686

NO ESCALATION IN IRAQ.

1) We can not end the 1400 year old Sunni/Shia conflict

2) We are creating enemies, not making Ameirca safer

3) It will kill us in 2014

4) The majority is against it, and we are a democracy..... right?

[Takket]

1. I saw a Fox poll

Fox poll said something like 56% favor not sending troops to Iraq and 33% think we need to to fight the terrorists.

That is FOX NEWS POLL.

If 56% of people in a fox news poll don't want us sending troops to Iraq, we SHOULD NOT BE SENDING TROOPS TO IRAQ.

We SHOULD be pushing for the 3 state solution.

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2. After our track record the first time, what could go wrong???

The only possible motive for further involvement is oil, and war profiteering.

[Generic Other]

3. Is it wrong of me to want the wingnuts

to show some humility for a change? When the hell have they ever been right about a war in the last 50 years? They were the ones who literally hooted the rest of us down, chanting "USA" like adolescent apes, mocking and dismissing those of us who warned them of the folly of their ways. Goddamn them.