zogby poll: 72% of US soldiers say they should have been withdrawn from iraq in 06.
you have a third cousin in iraq? well then you should know what the military thinks i guess.
2007-08-25 18:34:19 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
I'm a Marine Corps infantryman who can't wait to get to the fight. All my buddies feel the same.
2007-08-25 18:42:08 · answer #1 · answered by John S 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I answered the same question 3 months ago:
Hey how’s it going. I looked at your link and saw that it was basically an article with none of the details of the poll itself. The only poll I could find that related to this topic was dated 28 Feb 2006, so if you have a link to a different survey please let me have a look at the link if you could. Anyhow the little "how the survey was conducted" blurb for the survey I found said:
"The survey included 944 military respondents interviewed at several undisclosed locations throughout Iraq. The names of the specific locations and specific personnel who conducted the survey are being withheld for security purposes. Surveys were conducted face-to-face using random sampling techniques. The margin of error for the survey, conducted Jan. 18 through Feb. 14, 2006, is +/- 3.3 percentage points."
According to the Dept. of Defense there are roughly 2.3 million members in the various branches of the military.
944 respondents can hardly be considered a large enough sample to say that 3 out of 4 troops want to withdraw from Iraq.
I’ve been in the Army for over 11 years with multiple deployments to Iraq. We did not sit around and whine about how unjust the war is, or that the US should pull out from Iraq. There were very few people that didn't know what war was before 9/11, that didn't know what a military did, almost 6 years later there shouldn't be anybody that’s the least bit confused with the dangers of being in the military, we all volunteered and all of us wanted to be in the military, its the life we chose, if a person doesn't like the life style, then they leave. Every bit of training we do revolves around what to do in combat, not what we do when we're hanging out at home on vacation. This is what we get paid to do, this is what we train to do day in and day out, it’s our purpose. Moral is high, we're doing our job, what we volunteered to do. Do I enjoy leaving my wife and daughter to go to war, no, nobody does, so I don't happily go skipping off to war without a care thinking "wow, I'm glad I joined the Army so I could get in shape and get all this college money for nothing." Any military member that still tells you that they didn't know what they were getting into this far into the war is absolutely wrong. Everybody I've been deployed with is motivated and determined to do their job no matter what political party is in charge at the moment.
Conducting and posting the results of a survey based on the opinion of 944 out of over 2 million people, and then standing by those results as though they were fact is very irresponsible and should not carry much weight with anybody.
2007-08-26 09:40:43 · answer #2 · answered by jwhite_555 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Be careful putting too much faith in that Zogby poll. The questions were very much skewed to get an answer that the people paying for the poll wanted. No where in that particular question was the choice to stay until victory. It was basically a "should we pull out now or next year", kind of question. Sort of a "do you still beat your wife yes or no" kind of question. No matter which answer was chosen it made it look like the soldiers wanted to quit.
Remember something very important about polls. Someone has to pay for them. That person gets to decide how the questions will be phrased and what possible answers are presented. That person often does not want to actually find out any particular information. They want to insure they receive a particular outcome.
Polls are not supposed to be sources of news for this very reason.
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2007-08-26 01:50:08 · answer #3 · answered by Jacob W 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
It's been two years since I went to Kuwait, but none of the tens of thousands of soldiers and Marines I met send that we should pull out of Iraq. Some of the people I worked with thought so, but they just did not want to be deployed. Ironically, the people in my command who felt we should leave Iraq were the same people who like to tell "war" stories.
2007-08-26 02:29:57 · answer #4 · answered by wichitaor1 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Most of my friends/ soldiers in Iraq want more soldiers to come in and do this job right. Get democracy to the Iraqis and understand that the Iraqi government is not doing much for their own country or people.
2007-08-26 01:42:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
And I suppose that you know what all the troops think too.
My whole family has a history of serving in the military, thank you. I have friends serving in Iraq now and have, and they all say the same thing. We must finish the job.
2007-08-26 01:42:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, I have been there twice and am going back for a third and I still think we need to be there. When to work is done we should go home, not befor. The time table should not hing on the number of troops killed and wounded. It should be based on when the country will be able to stand on its own.
2007-08-26 01:42:31 · answer #7 · answered by jason272fist 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Been to Iraq three times, I think you're just another clueless liberal when it come to anything relating to the military.
What people such as yourself can never seem to get through your polluted minds is that we have an all volunteer force...
2007-08-26 01:48:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Most of the soldiers I've talked to disagree with you.
2007-08-26 01:45:17 · answer #9 · answered by DOOM 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
No, we should not have withdrawn our troops anytime in 2006, it would have been disastrous to have done so!
2007-08-26 02:40:25 · answer #10 · answered by Sgt Little Keefe 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋