President Obama receives low marks for his handling of the situation in Iraq: just 37 percent approve, and 52 percent disapprove. While most Democrats approve, nearly a third of them disapproves. Moreover, more than two-thirds of Americans do not think Mr. Obama has clearly explained what the U.S. goals are […] Read more »
Many Americans wary of U.S. role in Iraq
Fifty percent of Americans think the U.S. doesn’t have a responsibility to do something about the recent violence in Iraq, while fewer – 42 percent — think the U.S. does, a CBS News/New York Times poll reveals. … Some 41 percent of Americans think President Obama’s response to the violence […] Read more »
Live from the War Cup
The ref just announced extra time, so this war could be going on for yet another decade. CONT. Brian McFadden, The Strip, New York Times Read more »
Obama, Cheney and the War in Iraq
When President Obama says, as he did today, “American combat troops are not going to be fighting in Iraq again,” he’s reflecting not only his own policy preferences but also a steady theme in U.S. public opinion. And as former Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials rejoin […] Read more »
Iraq in the Context of Past Polling
As Islamic militants take control of wide swaths of Iraq, including the country’s second-largest city of Mosul, the Obama administration is facing substantial criticism with regard to its 2011 decision to withdraw all American troops from Iraq. … Gallup is currently collecting new information on the American public’s opinion on […] Read more »
Whatever Obama does on Iraq, it won’t be easy — or popular
Barack Obama established his political bona fides with his early rejection of the Iraq war as a little-known Illinois state senator. And that position arguably propelled him through the 2008 Democratic primary and on to the presidency. But now the rapidly deteriorating situation in Iraq bears almost nothing but political […] Read more »