Support for Afghan war drops CNN poll finds

[Better Believe It]

Support for Afghan war drops
CNN poll finds
CNN
August 6, 2009

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A new national poll indicates that support among Americans for the war in Afghanistan has hit a new low.

Forty-one percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Thursday say they favor the war in Afghanistan -- down 9 points from May, when CNN polling suggested that half of the public supported the war.

Fifty-four percent say they oppose the war in Afghanistan, up 6 points from May.

"Afghanistan is almost certainly the Obama policy that Republicans like the most," CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said. "Nearly two-thirds of Republicans support the war in Afghanistan. Three-quarters of Democrats oppose the war."

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/06/poll.afghanistan/index.html

[Oregone]

1. Maybe he will milk some centrist votes out of this escapade

This entire jaunt may fish some votes out of the right, who favor it. I wonder if a consultant noticed this.

Can I think of any other reason we are there?

[mwb970]

2. Why *are* we there anyway?

To "get" bin Laden? To "spread democracy"? To avenge 9/11? I really have no idea what we are trying to accomplish in Afghanistan.

What do the always war-supporting republicans claim we are accomplishing there? Big profits for American corporations? At least that would be worth dying for.