54 % Of Americans Want Us Out Of Afghanistan

Posted by | July 14, 2010 09:58 | Filed under: Top Stories


Most Americans want a withdrawal timeline for us to leave Afghanistan according to a new CBS poll.

Today, the poll finds, 62 percent of Americans say the war is going badly, up from 49 percent in May. Just 31 percent say the war in Afghanistan is going well.

Nine years into the war, 33 percent of Americans say they do not want large numbers of U.S. troops in Afghanistan for another year. Twenty-three percent of Americans say they are willing to have troops stay there for one or two more years.

Just 35 percent are willing to have troops stay longer than two years.

Most Americans — 54 percent — think the U.S. should set a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Forty-one percent disagree.

Fifty-five percent of Americans say things are going well for us in Iraq.

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