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Despite Propaganda: Americans Oppose U.S. Intervention In Iraq

Above: Anti-war groups hold a demonstration against a US military intervention in Iraq in front of the White House in Washington on June 16, 2014. NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images.

Congress Needs to Stand Up to President Obama and Warn Him: Military Action is an Act of War that Would be an Unconstitutional, Impeachable Offense.

The US media has been feeding the American people a steady diet of commentary by war hawks, the neocons and humanitarian war mongers from both parties who got the United States into the Iraq War and have kept the United States in Afghanistan. The media has been aggressively highlighting the violence and brutality of ISIS. Despite all of this the American public is saying ‘no’ to war. Only 20% favor military intervention according to a Reuters/ISPOS poll. These figures cross the political spectrum and are the same for people who say they are Democrats, Republicans and independents. And, antiwar activists are organizing opposition and speaking out throughout the country.

President Obama has told leaders of Congress he can take military action without congressional approval. No doubt he knows where the American people stand as the White House is constantly polling the people. He knows if he went to Congress there would be a flood of antiwar opposition.

Where is Congress? Why the silence? What happened to the much vaunted ‘checks and balances’ of the US government? Why is no one in Congress warning Obama that military attacks – including drone bombings — which would be an act of war — would violate the Constitution and be an impeachable offense? Members of Congress need to stand up and do their job — only they have the constitutional power to declare war. Why are they silent? Their silence will be complicity in acts of war not authorized by domestic or international law, acts of war that will make the situation worse in Iraq, increase anti-Americanism and result in the deaths of thousands.

We can stop the next Iraq War. Call Congress 202-224-3121 or find your representative here and let them know they should be doing their job and telling President Obama he cannot commit an act of war without congressional authorization.

Poll: Fifty-five percent are against U.S. intervention of any kind, while only 20 percent support it.

WASHINGTON — Americans overwhelmingly oppose U.S. intervention in Iraq in the face of an advance by radical Sunni Islamists that routed the Iraqi army, a Reuters-IPSOS Poll showed on Thursday.

Fifty-five percent of those polled said they were against U.S. intervention of any kind, while only 20 percent supported it. There was little disparity in the overall response among Democrats, Republicans and independents.

Among those who supported some form of intervention, the most popular action was humanitarian aid for refugees from the conflict, and the second most popular was air strikes to support Iraqi government forces.

When presented with President Barack Obama’s position that there would be no U.S. military intervention unless the Shi’ite-led Iraqi government took steps toward power-sharing with Sunni and Kurdish leaders, most still opposed U.S. engagement.

Forty-five percent responded that the United States should not get involved in the conflict “no matter what,” 34 percent said Obama was setting appropriate conditions for engagement and 21 percent said U.S. involvement was needed to keep extremists from taking power.

The poll reflected predictable splits between Republicans and Democrats on ascribing blame for the Iraq crisis, in particular on the decision by Democrat Obama to pull all U.S. forces out of the country in 2011, eight years after they were sent in by Republish President George W. Bush.

Sixty-one percent of Republicans said the crisis was evidence that U.S. forces should not have left Iraq, compared with 26 percent of Democrats. However 74 percent of Democrats said it was evidence that withdrawing the forces was the right decision, compared with 39 percent of Republicans.

The online poll of 1,019 Americans was carried out between June 17 and 19 and had a credibility interval of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

(Reporting by David Storey; Editing by Jonathan Oatis)

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