Originally Posted by Skybird

Instead of
"Do you think the troop boost will succeed in what it intends?",
they ask
"Do you want our troops to fail?".

Reminds me of myself having said: "Iraq cannot be won for this and that reason", and people attacking me, saying "Skybird hopes and wishes for America to fail."

Suggestivfrage (leading question) this method of manipulation is called. Tells everything one needs to know about that poll. Oh, Fox News, you say? Okay, that explains all.

The German TV and print/online medias that I scan refer to other American polls regularly, once or twice a week. General mark: two out of three Americans doubt that Iraq will be successful (no one talks of victory anymore, even Bush has given up that phrase), or that a troop boost is helpful and desirable. Two longer TV docus since X-mas in German TV referred to field commanders saying: "This is far too little, and comes far too late."

Are all these Americans wishing that they hopefully will fail? Hardly. But a sense of realism finally seems to gain the upper hand over blind emotions. The one who thinks he can decide in a state of emotion, is wrong - he gets decided.