35% of people believe Iraq will be success, 46% believe Iraq will be a failure

[MissCatholic]

Thirty-eight percent (38%) now believe that the U.S. is safer than it was before 9/11. That's unchanged compared to a month ago.

Thirty-six percent (36%) give the President good or excellent ratings for handling the situation in Iraq. That is down a point from a month ago and down three from two months ago.

Just 29% now say things will get better in Iraq over the next six months. That's down from 33% a month ago. Forty-eight percent (48%) expect things to get worse. Those figures are the most pessimistic since the January 30 elections in Iraq.

At the beginning of 2005, just 28% of Americans thought the situation in Iraq would get better over the next six month. A Rasmussen Reports survey at the time found that 50% of Americans expected things to get worse.

Thirty-five percent (35%) of Americans believe that, in the long run, the U.S. mission in Iraq will be viewed as a success. Forty-six percent (46%) believe it will be viewed as a failure. Those figures are also more pessimistic than last month.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Failure, once Iraq becomes the new Iran.

[MissCatholic]

Failure, once Iraq becomes the new Iran.

There are rumours within the pentagon that civil war could start in the fall.

[MODU]

Yup, the same was said about Germany and Japan.  What terrible, unfriendly, oppressive nations they've become.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Yup, the same was said about Germany and Japan.  What terrible, unfriendly, oppressive nations they've become.

What a bunch of bullsh**t. Were we fighting hundreds of thousands of "insurgents" two years after "mission accomplished" there?

[MODU]

Yup, the same was said about Germany and Japan.  What terrible, unfriendly, oppressive nations they've become.

What a bunch of bullsh**t. Were we fighting hundreds of thousands of "insurgents" two years after "mission accomplished" there?

Actually, we were engaged in conflicts both in Europe and in the Pacific following the official surrender of both Axis groups.  The Asian theater was the worse of the two, which lasted for years.  You might want to go back and refresh your history before asking another stupid question.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Yup, the same was said about Germany and Japan.  What terrible, unfriendly, oppressive nations they've become.

What a bunch of bullsh**t. Were we fighting hundreds of thousands of "insurgents" two years after "mission accomplished" there?

Actually, we were engaged in conflicts both in Europe and in the Pacific following the official surrender of both Axis groups.  The Asian theater was the worse of the two, which lasted for years.  You might want to go back and refresh your history before asking another stupid question.

The Cold and Korean wars don't count.

[MODU]

Actually, we were engaged in conflicts both in Europe and in the Pacific following the official surrender of both Axis groups.  The Asian theater was the worse of the two, which lasted for years.  You might want to go back and refresh your history before asking another stupid question.

The Cold and Korean wars don't count.

Uh no, I was talking about post-WWII insurgent attacks from Japanese and Nazi forces that had refused to surrender.

[Alcon]

Yup, the same was said about Germany and Japan.  What terrible, unfriendly, oppressive nations they've become.

To be fair, Germany and Japan had many more advantages than Iraq does today.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Actually, we were engaged in conflicts both in Europe and in the Pacific following the official surrender of both Axis groups.  The Asian theater was the worse of the two, which lasted for years.  You might want to go back and refresh your history before asking another stupid question.

The Cold and Korean wars don't count.

Uh no, I was talking about post-WWII insurgent attacks from Japanese and Nazi forces that had refused to surrender.

Some of them didn't get the news that the war was over. I doubt they really compared to the Iraqi "insurgents". Sometimes the Americans would send some Japanese general to relay the news to them.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Yup, the same was said about Germany and Japan.  What terrible, unfriendly, oppressive nations they've become.

To be fair, Germany and Japan had many more advantages than Iraq does today.

Ever heard of Dresden, Germany or Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan?

[MODU]

Yup, the same was said about Germany and Japan.  What terrible, unfriendly, oppressive nations they've become.

To be fair, Germany and Japan had many more advantages than Iraq does today.

That's true.  People knew that a rebuilt Japan and Germany would be in the global best interest.  Funny that they don't think the same about Iraq.  I wonder how many people here would balk when they found out how much we spent in reconstruction efforts for foreign nations which we bombed to hell.  Not only did we replace what we destroyed, we also built entirely new infrastructures and industries to get their nations back up and on their feet.

[© tweed]

who the hell knows.  Even in a worst-case scenario, we'd be told we've won even if we didn't.  So 30 years from now Iraq will be viewed as a success.

[ThadK]

who the hell knows.

Seconded.

[dazzleman]

Yup, the same was said about Germany and Japan.  What terrible, unfriendly, oppressive nations they've become.

To be fair, Germany and Japan had many more advantages than Iraq does today.

That's true.  I supported the invasion of Iraq and I continue to, but I am disappointed that the administration doesn't seem to have expected that terrorists would try to prevent any type of decent government from taking root in Iraq.

I'm also disappointed that the president isn't doing more to sell his policy there.  He is letting the terrorists control the agenda and the initiative.

[opebo]

If by failure one means worse than it was under Saddam, for both its own people and Americans' security, yes, obviously.