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"Do you favor keeping a large number of U.S. troops in Iraq until there is a stable government there OR bringing most of our troops home in the next year?"
Wait for Stable Government - - - 35%
Bring Home In Next Year - - - - - 63%
Unsure - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3%
Protest Reassembles in Crawford
Opponents of War in Iraq Plan to Remain Near Bush Ranch
By Rosalind S. HeldermanWashington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, November 26, 2005; Page A05CRAWFORD, Tex., Nov. 25 -- Cindy Sheehan has returned to the dusty town of Crawford, where she was transformed from a grieving mother into a symbol of the movement against the Iraq war. ...
"Are you confident that Iraq will be successful in developing a stable and reasonably democratic government?"
Yes - - 32%
No - - 61%
Unsure - 7%
Santa Rosa lawmaker heralded movement to withdraw troops
Mercury News Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON - Long before the issue of withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq exploded in Congress earlier this month, a Bay Area congresswoman had been leading a sometimes lonely fight to bring the troops home.
Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Santa Rosa, was the first to introduce legislation calling for withdrawal, on Jan. 26, making the 68-year-old grandmother the unofficial matriarch of the movement in Congress. ...
"Do you believe the insurgents in Iraq are being contained by security forces or are they getting the upper hand?"
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Being Contained - - - - 41%
Getting Upper Hand - - 44%
Unsure - - - - - - - - - - 14%
Defense hawk Dicks says he now sees war as a mistakeSeattle Times Washington bureau
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...Dicks says the Pentagon should begin a phased withdrawal and leave some troops to help maintain order and train a new Iraq army. "We've got to be very concerned that Iraq comes out of this whole," he said.
But he added, "We can't take forever."
Some people say it takes eight to nine years to control an insurgency, Dicks said.
"I don't think the American people will give eight to nine years, and I sure as heck won't."
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