Why is Hillary Clinton planting questions in here new events? Is Senator Clinton taking a page out of FEMA's phony press conference playbook?

"I certainly would like to see our troops come home now.We have no reason to be over there. The true reason why we are over there is to protect all those oil fields, so the top 3 oil companies can continue to rake in billions of dollars to go into their pockets, while the working class man has to pay over $3.00 a gallon for gas. I pray for all of our troops safety and come home, but Americans need to wake up and see what is really going on."

Life must be very simple down there in Hayesville,North Carolina . Must be wonderful to have such a clear view of the world…or is it a cynical view of the US?

I certainly would like to see our troops come home now.We have no reason to be over there. The true reason why we are over there is to protect all those oil fields, so the top 3 oil companies can continue to rake in billions of dollars to go into their pockets, while the working class man has to pay over $3.00 a gallon for gas. I pray for all of our troops safety and come home, but Americans need to wake up and see what is really going on.

2003 65% favor, 35% oppose
2007 22% favor, 68% oppose

Polls don't mean much when 33% of Americans are wondering sheep..

Of course we are succeeding, that's what the rich people "Republicans" are saying you know why mafia OIL, OIL, OIL, OIL, OIL, OIL, OIL, OIL, OIL.

Hank , Fort Myers, FL

You have no idea what you are talking about. Yes, Colin Powell was very reserved about the war, but he is not "against" it. Powell is a soldier, and he has repeatly said the decision of a war rest on the president, and it is never his position to "for or against" a war. He never made any recommendation on going or not going to Iraq. He only warned Bush about "If you break it, you owe it", which is once we invaded Iraq, it is our responsbility and we cannot leave until the job is done. Powell's view is completely opposed from you, so stop lying about what Powell believes. There is a very good reason why Colin Powell donated $2300 (maxmium allowed) to John McCain in this election, and nobody else. Maybe you can explain to me why he donate his money to the only pro-war and pro-surge, most hawkish candidate.

As for Iraqis, most Sunnis prefers Saddam, but overall, most Iraqis still prefer this chaos than Saddam. Kurds certainly do not want the old days, and neither the Shias. Since Kurds and Shias made up the 80% of the population, you are just wrong. There is a recent poll on Iraqis, and again the poll shows Iraqis feel still prefer today than Saddam.

Boy, there are a lot of morons commenting to this ticker. Everyone is self-righteous and totally convinced their preferred news outlets are neutral. Hog wash! Many of us are tired of hearing all these baseless and mindless partisan accusations of malfeasance and profiteering. You people are playing right into the hands of politicians that depend on division and infighting for political gain. What sheep!!!

Heres the real problem with the country we live in when it comes to foreign lands and our politics. 1. The backing of revolutions and supporting revolutionary leaders who are on our side until they get in power i.e. Castro and etc. 2. Going into countries and talking certain groups in trying to revolting i.e. the Iraqis that were gassed, it just wasn't a test. As far as the US being defeated, we do a pretty good job on ourselves, look at all the in fighting we are doing on the war. Its amazing how many Jane Fondas we have in this country and some of those were elected. And the wasy this country is going its not much fun anymore.

Even the troops want out of this God forsaken "war". It's not a war, there's no clearly defined enemy so there can be no clear victory. This is a total quagmire and we all know it's for private interests and oil. Why do people continue to justify this rubbish? If you really "support the troops" you would want them to come home not fight and die in a phony war to line the pockets of Cheney and the rest of BushCo's cronies.

Brad in TX said: "At least Bush has enough fortitude to finish a job, unlike those in the Democrat Party who start out strong but turn their backs on a job when it becomes too much to bear!"

Hey Brad, what about all those members of G.W.'s own party who've lept off his train? The truth is–the President launched this ill-advised war against the views of many senior military generals, and even his own State Department secretary. Instead of listening to the logic–he (childlessly) eliminated all dissent by making those people resign or firing them and replacing them with "yes people". Well now the yes men (and women–sorry ladies) are gone, his true-blue and loyal advisors (those people he forced to leave or fired remember)are not advising him any more. He cannot change course, he cannot accept that his prosecution of this war was a very serious and stupid mistake because it would brung great discredit to his own place in history–and to the political efforts of the whole GOP for decades to come. So like a man strapped to a train–he holds on tight and prays he can turn this over to somebody soon!! You see, he can't give up. I don't think he really cares who gets elected–he just wants the monkey off of his own back! In summary, everybody around him with the exception of a few–have quit. He can't so he hangs on. Even Cheney is hiding away like G.W. has the plague!! But, the civilians (kids too) in Iraq are still suffering and dying, our troops are still dying and getting maimed/disabled, the situtation is definitely not better. In fact, I think most Iraqi's would prefer old Saddham back–he was brutal, and he was corrupt–but he kept food on the table and the electricity and water on. And there was relative security and peace for the average Iraqi. His arrogance and naive assessments of the aftermath of his actions caused all this–an he will deserve be run out of the White House when it comes. The sooner the better.

Ryan in Indianapolis, Brad in Texas, and Jon in Sacramento are Bush toadies. While we're on the subject of "not listening to polls," feel free to plug your ears, but you can't deny the written facts — Bush is an emasculated corporate lap dog who has lied over and over again about his war in Iraq and the fact that it's all about the oil over there. Because if it were about keeping us safe, we'd be looking for bin Laden and not making the Pakistanis do it for us.

W say, "…our troops are clearly succeeding on the ground in Iraq,…" They are dying on the ground in Iraq. 2007 is the worst year yet for casualities. That is success?

History will show that Bush was right on the Mideast

Is anyone else nauseated by the lies, rhetoric and spin-doctoring constantly coming from the White House? I think I'd fall on my face if they ever told the truth about anything.

"As our troops are clearly succeeding on the ground in Iraq, they deserve our undivided support."

The troops HAVE our undivided support. What we do not support are policies that put them in harms way for no reason and into a fight that has no military solution. Bush likes to use our volunteer military to shame us into feeling guilty for disagreeing with his failed policies. If you ask me the people who use the military to propogate their own agenda are the ones who don't support the troops.

Does anyone notice that Ryan in Indianapolis is consistenly one of the first folks on the board spouting out the President's Rhetoric like a blind sheep?

Ryan, the reactions that you receive in response to these posts is proof positive that YOU are clearly in the minority and that the so-called "liberal media" polls actually represent how the majority of America views the current administration and world events.

If you don't believe me, look at the HUNDREDS of responses to your idiotic posts on just about every topic on the Political Ticker and tell me what you see!

Things are going well in Iraq??? For whom? Maybe the insurgents…..

How many more of our soldiers and Iraqi civilians have to die before we figure out that this war was lost a long time ago????

Yep, if our military & country can hang in there for another 5 or 10 years, we ought to end up with—NOTHING !

Never heard of this poll being held by no other than CNN the Dem, channel.
Every republican I have spoke to, does not support bush and this political power war. Republicans want our troop out of Iraq. anybody dumb enough to believe in a poll from CNN, welcome to the North American Union.

Pathetic and preposterous. Is this the best that they can do?

Those in the White House are wasting their time trying to convince people to change their minds– the liberals who want our nation to fail in the Middle East are unwilling to admit any progress that is being made because it hurts their agenda for the upcoming election. The hatred for Bush and others in the administration is so extreme that they don't care that the terrorists and their protectors (Iran, Syria, etc.)are listening to all the childish name-calling and backbiting. Is it any wonder they think Americans have no spine when the going gets rough? At least Bush has enough fortitude to finish a job, unlike those in the Democrat Party who start out strong but turn their backs on a job when it becomes too much to bear!

I no longer blame Former President Clinton Or George Bush for no weapons being found. I hope the changes in our intelligence gathering works & we have better information to work with. Also having a army next to Iran isn't bad, perhaps necessary.

Winning the war in Iraq?

Yes, it might take FOREVER to change America's perception on that!

Definition of a WIN in Iraq for the USA: All Iraqis are dead…

At least the WH comes right out and says it thinks the American public is kind of slow.

This regime in D.C. right now has such
delusions of grandure. They have
convinced themselves that sometime
in the future they will be proven right.But they can't change the facts
that none of the reasons they gave
were true.And have, since their lies
have been exposed, changed their
rational for this "war". The only
thing time will get them is more
exposure of the lies and fraud and
profiteering this war has created.

The Neo-Con think tanks continue to
pump out "studies" and propganda
to maintain the pitiful support they
have now.

Democrats are invested in defeat. Their own party's success in election is dependent upon our soldiers actually failing to quell the terrorists in Iraq. Even Rep. Jim Clyburn admitted such. How proud you Democrats must be of his statement admitting it would be a 'problem' in the elections for Democrats if success was reported in Iraq. That's just sick and unforgivable.

Ryan. I don't put a ton of stock in these polls as they are small samples and likely worded in biased ways. But I have seen you post a few times here and its quite obvious you are getting you're thoughts from right wing media. I've heard your argument too many times before. As I think you stated a few days ago… THINK FOR YOURSELF.

This war will go down in history as the biggest blunder in US History. George Bush has already gone down in history as the biggest mass murderer of the 21st century to date.

3 cheers for ryan, you tell it like it is brother!! God Bless Our Troops

Again and again the Administration continues to tell us that we are too ignorant to know what's going on – and to just "trust me."

Again and again Americans refuse to be lied to anymore – except the occasional representative of the last 23% of Bush Supporters … singing their solitary one note song … and no one is listening to them or the President anymore.

CNN "polls" are a joke. You stack the poll with disenchanted liberals and then claim "Americans OVERWHELMING blah blah blah".

From one poll completed in October 12-14 you created 7-8 articles concluding how the "American people" feel.

If you were a reputible – you would release the number of individuals polled, their declared affiliation, and the specific questions you asked. Instead you hide all the facts (aside from the number of polled persons) and expect readers to believe your "objectivity".

Riiiiiight.

PS – I fully don't expect you to post this because it's a criticism of CNN and you all seemed rather overwhelmed with managing your blog.

"the White House cited recent successes in the country and said it takes time for perceptions of the war to change"

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome!

Bush just can't understand why Iraqi's don't like American troops occupying their country and torturing their people.

Our troops have already failed, they were setup up to fail by a dishonest administration that is lining their pockets and companies like Blackwater and Haliburton's pockets with gold. This is all about the MONEY, Ryan get a clue!

It is hard to hear the American voice on Liberal channels. I keep hearing about all these polls and never once have been asked to participate. All the people discussed this issue with have almost without a doubt stated that they may not agree with the war but believe we should not leave until the war has been won. It is the people complain that we should not be there will be the same people to blame Bush for not doing enough to win this war against MUSLIM Extremists who want to see Americans DEAD. Cannot have it both way folks. God Bless the troops!

HOGWASH, WHITEHOUSE SPEAKING HEAD. THIS FAILED IRAQ POLICY AND THIS PRESIDENCY IS FINISH, PASSE'. KEEP HOPING FOR A MIRACLE. THIS WHOLE PRESIDENCY AND WAR WAS BUILT ON LIES, FACADES AND CRONYISM. GOOD THINGS DO NOT EVOLVE FROM EVIL INITIATIVES. THE DAY BUSH STOLE THIS PRESIDENCY AND WAS APPOINTED BY THE SUPREME COURT WAS AN OMEN FOR FAILURE.

Regardless of how the administration wants to change our perceptions, they cannot alter the truth. The truth is that our invasion and occupation of Iraq is the worst foreign policy disaster ever pursued by this nation. The truth is the American people were mislead by their government about Iraq, about why we ivaded Iraq, and about the whole so-called "war on terror".

Ryan- I feel sorry for people like you… going through life with blinders on.

the preceptions of the American people will never change because no one can explain to them why Iraq did not have the weapons of mass distruction promised! and to that end most get it! – that is …. why are we fighting a war we were lied into! outrage sets in folks and not a life should be lost.

This war will never ever be won. At least not by the United States. Right wing nut jobs that continue to put innocent Iraqis and U.S. service personnel in harms way who think we might actually win someday are delusional.

I hope the grown-ups in the WH are actually looking after the Simpletons – GWB and Dick Vader.

68% us a lie, just another CNN lie.

CNN took this poll now because the good news of freedom in Iraq is getting around their corrupt filters and Bush's numbers are certainly to curve upwards again from here..

This was so anti-Bush we need to post it again, eh CNN?

Just like Bill lashing out at Republicans for their "possible future swiftboating" of Hillarity, it was so pro-Clinton, we needed to post that twice as well.

I have an idea CNN, post real news stories like how the last three or four months our fighting men and women have done an incredible job in Iraq and the FACT is the surge is working and we are HAVING measurable results.

Report the REAL news and then take your polls and see what people think when they are told the good and yes, the bad as well.

Nope, the media will run with the bad war news, chase after Brittany and Paris and wait for idiot Larry Craig to go to he bathroom.

Didn't Hillary just wash her hands, better get on that story.

Your network used to be better than this.

Oh, the government says things are going well in Iraq, does it? This is coming from the same people that lied to us about the need to invade Iraq in the first place. Ooookay! Happy days are here again!

The American Media wants our troops to fail and thank God this president has the Backbone to see the mission thru. CNN I would love to see how you worded the question ?????Cause you know if you put at the end of that question"you would accept defeat" the numbers would be alot lower. Thank God the grown-ups are in the whitehouse and dont run the country by phony poll numbers.