Hands Off Iraq! Hands Off Syria!
Despite Propaganda: Americans Oppose U.S. Intervention In Iraq
Above:
Anti-war groups hold a demonstration against a US military intervention in Iraq
in front of the White House in Washington on June 16, 2014. NICHOLAS
KAMM/AFP/Getty Images.
Poll: Fifty-five percent are against U.S. intervention of any kind, while only 20 percent support it.
WASHINGTON
— Americans overwhelmingly oppose U.S. intervention in Iraq in the face of an
advance by radical Sunni Islamists that routed the Iraqi army, a Reuters-IPSOS
Poll showed on Thursday.
Fifty-five
percent of those polled said they were against U.S. intervention of any kind,
while only 20 percent supported it. There was little disparity in the overall
response among Democrats, Republicans and independents.
Among
those who supported some form of intervention, the most popular action was
humanitarian aid for refugees from the conflict, and the second most popular was
air strikes to support Iraqi government forces.
When
presented with President Barack Obama’s position that there would be no U.S.
military intervention unless the Shi’ite-led Iraqi government took steps toward
power-sharing with Sunni and Kurdish leaders, most still opposed U.S.
engagement.
Forty-five
percent responded that the United States should not get involved in the conflict
“no matter what,” 34 percent said Obama was setting appropriate conditions for
engagement and 21 percent said U.S. involvement was needed to keep extremists
from taking power.
The
poll reflected predictable splits between Republicans and Democrats on ascribing
blame for the Iraq crisis, in particular on the decision by Democrat Obama to
pull all U.S. forces out of the country in 2011, eight years after they were
sent in by Republish President George W. Bush.
Sixty-one
percent of Republicans said the crisis was evidence that U.S. forces should not
have left Iraq, compared with 26 percent of Democrats. However 74 percent of
Democrats said it was evidence that withdrawing the forces was the right
decision, compared with 39 percent of Republicans.
The
online poll of 1,019 Americans was carried out between June 17 and 19 and had a
credibility interval of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
(Reporting
by David Storey; Editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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