PressCoverage

CNN... hopefully this is ok with Patriot's allotted acceptable news sources... i mean, his list seems to be dwindling as it suits him... soon, the only acceptable news source will be Weekly Standard...

Poll: Majority mistru(Please be quiet - edited)l of upcoming Iraq report


http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/...rss_topstories
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A majority of Americans don't trust the upcoming report by the Army's top commander in Iraq on the progress of the war and even if they did, it wouldn't change their mind, according to a new poll.

President Bush frequently has asked Congress -- and the American people -- to withhold judgment on his so-called troop surge in Iraq until Gen. David Petraeus, the commander in Iraq, and Ryan Crocker, U.S. ambassador to Iraq, issue their progress report in September.

But according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Thursday, 53 percent of people polled said they suspect that the military assessment of the situation will try to make it sound better than it actually is. Forty-three percent said they do trust the report.

patsfan13

Too bad the politics of this issue is sp poisoned that many are unwilling to give a person like Paetraus a fair shot.

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"Some guys play in all-star games, some guys don't. I don't know who picks all those all-star teams. In all honesty, I don't know who picks the combine, for that matter," Belichick said. "How does (Miami-Ohio offensive lineman Brandon) Brooks not get invited to the combine? How did Vollmer not get invited to the combine? I don't know. We can't really worry about that. We just have to try to evaluate them the best we can."

Patriot_in_NY

I absolutely CONGRATULATE you on the sourcing. Bravo....

Funny thing about polls is, everyone interprets them differently and the way they ask questions EFFECTS how people answer them. GALLOP conducted a remarkable similar poll and came to different conclusions.

from EDITOR & PUBLISHER (an equally credible source).

Kinda weird how seperate polls (with similar numbers) actual come to different conclusions when it comes to results. Who knows who to trust, RIGHT. In fact, going to your link, they even seem to hedge a bit on what/who to trust.

If you read to para 4 & 5, it says.





Again, seriously....... I completely applaud your attempt to use a REAL NEWS source to make a point. It's a huge step up and I want you to know I appreciate it. Keep up the good work.

PressCoverage

two completely different questions... not even remotely similar nor uncomparable... mine talks about trust of the report, underlining their skepticism of WH meddling, which will happen.... yours talks about their view of Petraeus himself...

mikey

CNN Poll: 53% do not trust Petraeus

GALLUP Poll: 47% have favorable view of Petraeus

53% + 47% = 100%

So what's the problem?


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Patriot_in_NY

sniff, sniff........... smells like bull ***** in here......

your splitting hairs press. Bottom line............ America is WAITING to hear what Petraeus and Crocker have to say. The WH will spin it, the opponants will spin it............ We just wanna hear what he has to say. We'll go from there.

scout

This administration has been very good at having someone by the short hairs ( thanks for everything Mr. Tenet, here's a Medal of Freedom). Petraeus was in charge of all firearms when 1/3 went missing, then undereported the amount. Thank you General, would you like to take command of the troops, oh, and I'll need a report in Sept. Yea, I trust all of them.

Patriot_in_NY

He also wrote the "current" book on counter insurgency. Btw, do YOU know anything about the military, or are you speaking out of you azz?

It's a fair question.




psssst, quoting Mikey for ANYTHING makes you loo stupid. Just saying

Pujo

To be fair, there are many people, me among them, who are so sick of this war, the false pretenses for starting it, and the constant lies and "misassessments" since then, that no amount of politically vetted government reporting is going to make me feel any more encouraged. So yeah, around half of Americans have completely lost hope of seeing the "good" ending to this war, the poll's not surprising.

Patriot_in_NY

Yeah but we only have two real choices left:

1) win it, or at least keep the peace long enough for the ethnic differences to get sorted.
2) pull back protect the KURDS, and let the barbarians slaughter each other on a scale we've not seen since 1600 AD.

I'm actually cool with either, since it will pull some political parties in that are trying to stay neutral. I.E. Sunni Syria and Saudi, vs. Shia Iran. Fukc em right it's only a few hundred thousand. - to a mil.

Bottom line............... If the while Iraq ***** doesn't work out for us, NO BIGGIE, it's just OP (other people) that will suffer, not us.

LIKE I SAID............ I'd like to save Iraq, but if they decide to all destroy each other........... I'm willing to look at other alternatives.




All I ask is that you get a clue as to what the ramifications are.......