{"id":8264,"date":"2006-08-22T10:44:49","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T14:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8264.html"},"modified":"2006-08-22T10:44:49","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T14:44:49","slug":"war-opposition-hits-all-time-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/war-opposition-hits-all-time-high\/","title":{"rendered":"War opposition hits all-time high"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just yesterday, the president was asked whether he cared about public support for the war, or whether he’s content with letting the results vindicate his strategy eventually. [tag]Bush[\/tag] said<\/a>, “Yes, I care, I really do. I wish — and so, therefore, I’m going to spend a lot of time trying to explain as best I can why it’s important for us to succeed in Iraq.”<\/p>\n

He may want to consider a different tack. He’s been trying to explain this for years, and support for the war has never been this low<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[tag]Opposition[\/tag] among [tag]Americans[\/tag] to the [tag]war[\/tag] in [tag]Iraq[\/tag] has reached a new high, with only about a third of respondents saying they favor it, according to a poll released Monday.<\/p>\n

Just 35 percent of 1,033 adults polled say they favor the war in Iraq; 61 percent say they oppose it — the highest opposition noted in any CNN poll since the conflict began more than three years ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And this isn’t a situation in which the president can just spin his way out of the problem. The same poll showed that most Americans (54%) don’t consider him honest, most (54%) don’t think he shares their values, and most (58%) say he does not inspire confidence.<\/p>\n

First, Republicans are still<\/i> planning to make Iraq a key part of the midterm cycle? Really<\/i>?<\/p>\n

And second, if the GOP’s plan is to smear war critics as unpatriotic terrorist-sympathizers, are they really poised to condemn three-fifths of the country?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just yesterday, the president was asked whether he cared about public support for the war, or whether he’s content with letting the results vindicate his strategy eventually. [tag]Bush[\/tag] said, “Yes, I care, I really do. I wish — and so, therefore, I’m going to spend a lot of time trying to explain as best I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}