25%.
By on Mar 14th, 2006 at 12:57 pm
25%.
Percentage of Americans who believe the Iraq war was worth the costs, according to a new CBS poll.
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Finally, some truth on the matter.
Iraq was the wrong place to go after 9/11. But the Bush Cabal would not listen to reason, nor were they interested in really protecting a nation from those who had the means to do us harm.
Every nation goes through a period of Madness. It’s our nation’s turn, or so it appears.
March 14th, 2006 at 1:04 pmThat standard nutty 25%… Same folks who think the sun revolves around a flat Earth and that ‘Intelligent Design” should be taught in public schools as a Science…
March 14th, 2006 at 1:05 pmI can hear it now, ‘you 75% are ‘helping the terrrrusts!’….your all under arrest!’
March 14th, 2006 at 1:05 pmOT but does this surprise anyone?
Subject: Presidents and their IQ
F.D.R. (D) (number didn’t come thru)
132 Harry Truman (D)
122 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)
174 John F. Kennedy (D)
126 Lyndon B. Johnson (D)
155 Richard M. Nixon (R)
121 Gerald Ford (R)
175 James E. Carter (D)
105 Ronald Reagan (R)
098 George HW Bush (R)
182 William J. Clinton (D)
091 George W. Bush (R)
The six Republican presidents of the past 50 years had an
average IQ of 115.5, with Nixon having the highest at 155.
Clarence Swinney
March 14th, 2006 at 1:13 pmPresidential Historian
In answering my own question…Yeah Dubya’s surprised me, I didn’t think it was that high!!!
March 14th, 2006 at 1:15 pmHey folks,
That 25% looks just as crazy from the VON Show in San Jose.
March 14th, 2006 at 1:20 pm#4 – Holy crap! 91? That explains a lot. My dog is smarter than that!
March 14th, 2006 at 1:30 pmhow is it possibel that 25% are still that stupid?
there is physical evidence that BUSH AND BLAIR wanted to provoke a war w/ Iraq by flying in their no fly zone!
http://shiftshapers.gnn.tv/headlines/7381/Dirty_Tricks_Bush_Blair_Considered_Luring_Saddam_Into_War
March 14th, 2006 at 1:36 pmI’d agree with the sentiment of the IQ thing, but the data is completely false. Debunked by Snopes years ago.
March 14th, 2006 at 1:37 pm#7 The difference should have been obvious. After all, your dog doesn’t eat his own poop.
March 14th, 2006 at 1:38 pm#9 – We’re using the ultra-right wing-nut playbook on news: repeat it often enough and it automatically becomes true!
You know, like “There were WMD’s in Iraq!” and “We went into Iraq to bring democracy!” and “Pres. Bush didn’t break any law when he spied on Americans!”
March 14th, 2006 at 1:48 pm#10 – No she doesn’t, but she is pretty dumb. Sweet as anything, but dumber than dirt.
March 14th, 2006 at 1:58 pm#11 Srry, could you repeat that? I had a 1,000 points of light in my eyes from that shining city upon a hill.
March 14th, 2006 at 1:58 pmThe real reason for going into Iraq is still unknown
Why Did Bush Destroy Iraq?
http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=8697
Read the above article
March 14th, 2006 at 1:58 pmI can think of no other reason except a perosnal grudge between the Older Bush and saddam
The war was wrong and America and UK should pay heavy compensation too
March 14th, 2006 at 1:59 pm#13 Those aren’t “1,000 points of light.”
They’re “villagers with torches.”
Run, George, run!
March 14th, 2006 at 2:09 pm25% of 298,300,436
is about 75 million nutters in America , the other 75% who have sense should round them up and stick them in Bushes secret prison gulags hes been building
March 14th, 2006 at 2:11 pmI wonder if any of those 25% lost a loved one for Bush’s wet dream, would they join the 75%.
March 14th, 2006 at 2:16 pmIt’s so easy to say that somebody else’s sacrifice was worth making.
The Bush Whitehouse is just like that idiot cheerleader that fell on her head recently. Being carried out on a stretcher with a fractured neck, they still continue to cheer.
March 14th, 2006 at 2:46 pmHow could it have been worth the cost in lives and treasure?
March 14th, 2006 at 3:12 pmWe invaded Iraq for what? For whom?
Three quarters of the polled think it hasn’t been worth it — but it wasn’t worth it three years ago either — nothing has changed; only the opinion of Americans who find it hard to accept the apparent failure of their leaders.
Bush has ruined everything he touched in his adult life — when he left, he left everything worse than when he went entered the picture. Unfortunately, this time he has ruined America.
The 25% are the terminally uneducatable in this country. They will always be with us. They watch the 700 Club and christian programming during the day and faux news at night.
March 14th, 2006 at 3:29 pm#4 I think that is obvious. Look at my man Clinton, though. He is gifted; no wonder repubs are so scared of him.
March 14th, 2006 at 3:36 pm#19 HAHAHAHA. I thought the same exact thing when I saw her with a neckbrace and cheering. What a dolt.
March 14th, 2006 at 3:38 pmFirst of all I’d like to see a breakdown of this poll to see how many of these numskulls have lost love ones in this war . Secondly , 91 ? no a surprise , I can’t wait to tell my daughter(126 14 years old ) this . Thanks .
March 14th, 2006 at 3:58 pm#14. After we invaded Iraq the oil coming out of that country is nothing more than a trickle. In effect, it’s been capped. And the world’s second largest reserve is now protected by the US military. Since March 2003, global oil supplies have been pinched and prices have gone up. A gallon of gas in the US has doubled since the invasion. The Saudis are making moola, and when the Saudis make moola so do the Bushes. It’s all about money. See Smedley Butler. See Halliburton.
March 14th, 2006 at 11:05 pmDoes anyone know Dan Quayle’s IQ. Everyone thought Quayle was too dumb to be President. I bet he is smarter than George W. Bush.
March 15th, 2006 at 12:17 amActually, Dan’s IQ exceeded that of both Bushes. Poppa from inbreeding and W from a congenial mental defect inherited from his dam. IQ is a measure one’s ability to reason .Danny’s problem was that he could not remember fuck – unlike W, he can think.
March 15th, 2006 at 12:46 amIn response to solataire’s comments about ‘wet dream’…how disgusting. You are obviously a demicrat. No noble Republican would stoop to such a level. We are men of GOD.
LET FREEDOM REIGN!
March 15th, 2006 at 5:47 amI guess 25% of ‘m were illiterate. Again, it’s Bush to blame.
March 15th, 2006 at 7:22 amI can’t believe that with this data – the Democrats (less Feingold) still have no spine. My theory on why they don’t support censuring Bush is that the Democratic Leadership Council (led by Carville, et. al.) think that they can wage the war better. The so-called moderate Democratic clique (Evan Bayh, Joe Lieberman, Hillary Clinton, Levin and Biden) in my view are no better than and are actually a part of this 25% of Americans – Unfortunately, the sad truth is our country may not be better off after the 2006 elections. Susan
March 15th, 2006 at 8:39 am#28. Where to begin? First of all, learn how to spell democrat! (And people made fun of Dan Quayle.) Second of all, are you saying that all Republicans are men? That would explain their position on women’s rights. And finally, to quote a bumper sticker I saw recently, “God is not spelled G.O.P!” There are plenty of men (and women) democrats who are of God. The Republican party does not own God nor does God favor any one political party.
March 15th, 2006 at 9:22 amSomeone earlier mentioned that we’re using the Repugnican playbook by repeating something often enough….. Well, folks, their playbook seems to be working. They seem to be winning (and stealing) elections with their playbook. Rather than sitting back complaining about their playbook, why dont we use it ourselves. Say “Bush is a fucking war criminal” 99,000 times a day and even a Repugnican with a mean IQ slightly greater than a gnat, will likely start to believe it.
March 15th, 2006 at 11:29 amIn May of 2001 Bush gave the Taliban a money gift of $43,000,000. What did the Taliban do with this money gift? (WASHINGTON POST)
March 15th, 2006 at 12:36 pmOn TV Bush bragged that he was a C student at YALE. I did not know that he has an IQ of
091
Why does he send our youth to their deaths in an unnecessary war? We have not killed any white people since WW2.
We have 43 million people without health insurance. That is more important than “Democracy” for Iraq. How many innocent Iraq women and children have Bush’s bombs have maimed and killed for “DEMOCRACY”
Iwas in WW2 and have seen the results! It is something that I prefer to forget.
I think when the official poll shows that his approval rating is 33% (this is one of the magic Illuminati numbers, isn’t it?) that the next faux attack will be staged.
March 15th, 2006 at 12:42 pmthat 33% thing is interesting. faux attack yes. the repubs need another “big one” if they are going to keep the presidency in 2008. here’s one for you all. how do you know that 9/11 was not a real terrorist attack? because the bush adm. has never acted as if it was a real terrorist attack. simple enough. now if they can come up with an aids like virus that ataches itself to bibles.
March 15th, 2006 at 5:05 pmWhen we invaded Iraq V.P. Cheney advised us that the Iraq people would welcome us. What happened to that prediction? Why was Cheney wrong about that?
March 17th, 2006 at 11:37 amNow the President tells us we are addicted to oil. Whose fault is that? I wonder what the price of gasoline would be if we did not invade Iraq?
I was against the war when it started and I am against the war now.
Now he talks about destroying Iran. That could start WW3.
I was in WW2 and I have nothing good to say about that. I have 2 teenage grandsons and will do all I can to keep them out of this war!
Will Bush start a draft?
Did anyone tell Bush that there are 3 ethnic groups in Iraq. Did Bush study History in Yale?
Iraq was created out of the Otterman Empire after WW1. (1921)
Is it possible that President Bush is getting his instructions from GOD to destroy Iran? If that happens it might start WW3! Where can you find that information? I need to know because I do not know how Bush can justify making war on people to give them Democracy?
April 2nd, 2006 at 1:46 pmI am not sure that we have a democracy because you can have your computer seized by the US Government. They don’t even have to tell you why(Patriot Act)
I was in WW2 and don’t want my grandchildren sent into combat to save Arab oil. Brazil has become self sufficent in energy and does not have to buy Arab oil! Why can’t we do that?
President Carter warned the US that this could happen. If the Arabs cannot sell us oil what else could tey sell us SAND?