A Sad Commentary On American Public Opinion
From a recent Fox News poll:
Do you personally want the Iraq plan President Bush announced last week to succeed?
Overall: 63% Yes 22% No 15% Don’t Know
Democrats: 51% Yes 34% No 15% Don’t Know
Republicans: 79% Yes 11% No 10% Don’t Know
Independents 63% Yes 19% No 17% Don’t Know
Overall, over 1/3 of the public responding to this poll either don’t want the President’s plan in Iraq to work or don’t know if they want it to. 22% of respondents flat-out don’t even want us to win. Not don’t think we can win or don’t think we should be in Iraq, but just don’t want us to win. Meaning, by extension, that they want the terrorists to win.
There’s no other way to look at that.
Another 15% aren’t sure if they want us to beat the terrorists or not. Nice of them to at least be ambiguous, I guess.
The party splits are worse. It’s bad enough 21% of Republicans either don’t want us to win or don’t know if they want us to win, but a full 49% of Democrats couldn’t bring themselves to say that they want American forces to beat the terrorists in Iraq.
I honestly don’t even know how to respond to this.
