Obama’s Libyan Intervention Has Lowest Approval of Any Military Op Polled by Gallup in 4 Decades
CNSNews.com
Barack Obama’s intervention in Libya’s civil war has not only failed to win the approval of a majority of the American people, according to a Gallup poll conducted Monday, it also earned the lowest public approval rating of any U.S. military operation polled by Gallup over the past four decades.
In fact, it was the only U.S. military intervention polled by Gallup that received less than majority approval from Americans.
“The 47% of Americans approving of the action against Libya is lower than what Gallup has found when asking about approval of other U.S. military campaigns in the past four decades.”
That compares to the 90 percent approval rating Americans gave President George W. Bush’s October 2001 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, the 83 percent approval rating they gave President George H.W. Bush’s January 1993 bombing of military targets in Iraq, the 76 percent approval rating they gave President George W. Bush’s March 2003 invasion of Iraq, and the 71 percent approval rating they gave President Ronald Reagan’s March 1996 bombing of Libya, and the 66 percent approval rating they gave President Bill Clinton’s August 1998 missile strikes on Sudan and Afghanistan, according to the Gallup poll.
Before Obama’s intervention in Libya, the least popular U.S. military intervention polled by Gallup was President Clinton’s 1999 intervention in the Balkan conflict over Kosovo. In a survey conducted April 30 to May 2, 1999, only 51 percent of Americans approved of that military action.
Wild Thing’s comment…….
I don’t think obama will even care what this poll says, he is a real dictator and will do whatever he wants.
DR ZHICAGO has his Barackshevik news nutworks so polls don’t matter …Up here in Duhawhere Bidenville, NO GI Joe and Obamessiah are adored… At Dover AFB the obese admin ‘troops’ have CNN on their televisions and my brother at Scott AFB (AMC HQ) say’s they’re being told to CHILL and go along with the MISSION… even though in Libya there is NO mission. He’s retiring in 20 months. IF you only knew how he really feels for he use to look at the Twin Towers weekly!
Just as scarey is the 47% of Americans that still APPROVED.
Who are these people? They are the real enemy.
Bill
There is no other subject more serious than the waging of war.
How can this President be taken seriously when he takes a half hour to go on ESPN sports television network to explain his college basketball charts, takes the fam down to Rio for Spring Break, while at the same time sending American military into harms way into a new theatre in a preemptive, undeclared, unfunded war defending unidentified Libyan rebels we do not know nor understand, and yet not take the time to address the American people to explain the very serious commitments he’s made unilaterally at home and allied abroad with Libyan oil dependent Europeans and Arab League dictators.
He’s given new meaning to March Madness.
We have no business in Libya. We do not belong there.
Darth, thanks for the information and also what your brother was told. Please thank him Darth for serving our country. Wow and soon he will retire.
Bill, your right, that to me is very, very concerning that anyone after all that has happened would stil be supportive of obama on anything.
Carlos, well said!!!