Unfortunatly I don't have these numbers at hand, but at least 70% of U.S forces "in country" think they should be home within a year. I believe at least 60% of Iraqis feel it is O.K. to shoot at G.I.s. I am refering to well published polls. The US citizenry thinks we should be out soon. If there is a 5 gal jar full of beans, where people are supposed to guess the quanity to win a prize, and enough people guess, the mean guess will be very accurate. This same law of large numbers was going to be put to use by our country with a terrorism probability pool. It was so jaded that people were shocked, but it probabley would have worked better than what we have. I think it is time to pay attention to this law of large numbers.

NO WAY. This absolutly a bad idea.

The question is designed to belittle those that cite the growing unpopularity of this sham of a war and to keep up this nonsensical "keep tough" approach. Of course opinion polls shouldn't dictate everything, but the lies are losing steam and the American people (who wanted to believe this tard of a president) are no longer buying what this redneck is selling. No weapons, no strategy, below-average planning and execution, failied deadlines, and an Iraq that will have civil war or almost certainly lack the civil rights that soliders have died for, and the lying pretense of "the world's better off without Saddam" when we have ignored atrocities in Sudan, North Korea, and other places too numerous to mention. Sorry, the opinion polls eventually will slide towards the truth no matter how long it takes or how many lies we hear. Keep telling yourself the polls are wrong if that helps you sleep better.

This would be the American policy if Bill Clinton was currently in office.

'What if George Washington took a poll during Valley Forge?' goes the common refrain. That's a rhetorical question that we should all consider. It takes leadership to rise above the situation with a cool head. Leading by emotion and the dictates of the herd will get you a policy outcome that's contradictory and variable on 100 million different opinions, or worse, the tyrrany of the majority. Yes, we could have and should have done a better job with the Iraqi insurgency, but just because some of us are becoming wary does not mean that we should pull out. Opinion polls are very fickle; it's always best to stand with what's prudent and reasonable.

Not realistic at all, it would get it done as it should be because of the low approval rate, but that's just not going to happen, and soon enough, I doubt it would have to.

That's a bright idea.

I wouldn't rely on current public opinion polls for much of anything. For various reasons, polls have become very unreliable over the last ten years or so. Even if they were reliable, this would be a bad idea.

This item will be at the bottom of the list soon enough. But, those of you who cite opinion polls indicating the unpopularity of the Iraq War as the reason to extricate ourselves immediately, should be honest about how important you think this item is.