3 in 5 Americans think Iraq will never become a stable democracy

Tue, 06/10/2008 - 2:52pm

A new poll by CBS News reveals some serious gloom: 61 percent of Americans polled believe Iraq will never become a stable democracy, up eight percentage points since September. Have they all been reading ForeignPolicy.com?

Here's the question: Which of these do you think is most likely?

 

Jun. 2008

Sept. 2007

Iraq will become a stable democracy in the next year or two

6%

4%

Iraq will become a stable democracy, but it will take longer than a year or two

29%

42%

Iraq will probably never become a stable democracy

61%

53%

Not sure

4%

1%

 

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The real question

by Lure D. Lou on Tue, 06/10/2008 - 11:28pm

is whether the US will return to becoming a stable democracy after being hijacked by an idiot junta with no program other than fantasy and war-mongering. History will show how the US slid dangerously close to overthrowing its own brilliant constitution based upon an assault of fear mongering propaganda and some really misguided ideas about the capabilities of a bunch of cave dwelling psychopaths. We can only be thankful that these useless tools will be off the stage as we need to prepare for the coming struggles with China, Russia and Iran. One wonders if any of the political class now before us has the right stuff to put together the programs to set us on a course, not for some creepy Rumsfeldesque wet-dream of global domination, but of national survival in a new world whose contours are just coming into focus. $8.00 a gallon gas anyone...? Who really cares about Iraq anyway? It's the biggest lost cause since the Russians pulled out of Afghanistan...it just hasn't sunk in to the skulls of all the war profiteers who figure that McCain will be good for at least another 100 Billion before the inevitable coitus interruptus.