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Poll: Ohio voters back U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, including more troops
Ohio voters believe the United States is doing the right thing in Afghanistan and support the recommendation from Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander, to send 40,000 more U.S. troops, according to a poll released on Thursday, Nov. 12.
The Quinnipiac University Poll found that voters support U.S. involvement, 48-43 percent. By a 51-40 percent margin, they support sending the additional troops, the poll found.
However, 55 percent said that they’d be willing to commit U.S. troops for two years or a shorter time period.
That limited support “is hardly a mandate for the type of long-term commitment that the Pentagon has said will be needed for victory,” Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said in a press release.
The poll was taken from Thursday, Nov.5 to Monday, Nov.9 with 1,123 Ohio voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.3 percentage points.
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By bring home
November 12, 2009 12:15 PM | Link to this
this is a war that will never be won no matter how many troops are over in Afghanistan. This war is about religion and when only 2% of Afghanistans people know what their religion is about there will always be violence over than and a hatred toward all western countries.