72% of US soldiers in Iraq think we should leave

[Steve Paskey]

Yep. 72 percent think we should leave within a year, and 29 percent -- nearly a third -- think we should leave NOW.

From yesterday's Baltimore Sun:

WASHINGTON // Pollster John Zogby says he has been asked by senior military brass to give a presentation at the U.S. Central Command in Florida about his firm's recent poll of American troops in Iraq. Good. The troops have said things their commanders need to hear - including their commander in chief.

Among them: 23 percent of the troops surveyed said they want to stay "as long as they are needed," President Bush's often-stated policy. Seventy-two percent of the respondents said the United States should leave Iraq within the next year, and that included a 29 percent minority who said the United States should pull out of Iraq "immediately."

[Norman Bernstein]

Ya gotta keep up, Steve... there's a thread on this one already.

Capsule summary: a number of war supporters claimed the poll was faulty. Zogby admitted to constraints on his methodology. My own take: despite the limitations on methodology, the poll probably reflected, with loose accuracy, the actual sentiments of those who participated.

[BrianW]

Too funny! But, I like how it's worded. smile.gif

[High C]

I wonder what war it was that the soldiers on the ground enjoyed so much that they didn't want to come home?! :rolleyes:

[jack grebe]

anytime I was in a foriegn land I wanted to go home ...no suprise here