UNITED STATES: Six out 10 voters want Iraq withdrawal

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http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/630/630p18.htm

Six out of 10 US voters want Washington to withdraw some or all of its troops from Iraq, according to a Gallup opinion poll taken on June 6-8. Almost 28% want all US troops to be withdrawn immediately.

The US currently has about 140,000 troops in Iraq. In addition, there are 15,000 other foreign occupation troops — 8500 of them British — and at least 20,000 US-recruited foreign mercenaries, euphemistically called “private security contractors”.

On May 20, General Michael Rochelle, chief of the US Army Recruiting Command, stated that 8000 US troops had died or been severely wounded as a result of the Iraq war.

According to the Gallup poll, 56% of US voters now say the US invasion of Iraq wasn't “worth it”. The top reasons cited were the Bush administration's fraudulent claims about Iraq's (non-existent) arsenal of weapons of mass destruction; the number of people killed and wounded; and the belief that Iraq posed no threat to the US.

[fryguy]

1. must not be using Diabold machines for the polls

'cause if they were counting, it would be like 2 out of 10.....

[iconoclastic cat]

2. Reality is seeping in. Quick! Get the duct tape!

[MichiganVote]

3. 10 out of 10 could want an end to this mess...Bush will continue

and that worthless Congress will support him.

[Elidor]

4. Silly Americans! Bush doesn't care what you want!

The next accountability moment isn't for 3-1/2 years, according to Dubya's watch.

[lovuian]

5. I think its a wee bit higher than that!!! Only person I know who

wants us there is Bush!!!

[Cha]

6. And bushreich will call them

a fringe group..they don't care what "60%" want. But 95% storming the bastille will get their ACHTUNG!

[ailsagirl]

7. And yet, Congress has just okayed $45 billion to continue the war

Those corrupt sons-of-bitches.
:mad: :grr: :spank:

[flygal]

8. Time for a good ol' fashioned Terra Alert