Poll: Majority of Republicans Want More Action in Iraq

Published June 23, 2014 3:11pm ET



Most Republicans say the United States should doing something about the violence in Iraq, according to a poll from CBS News and the New York Times. The poll found 52 percent of Republican adults say the U.S. has a “responsibility” to act in Iraq over the recent wave of terrorism there, and 53 percent say the country should be doing more there. Just 43 percent of Democrats and only 37 percent of independents said the U.S. has a responsibility in Iraq.

Overall, 42 percent say the U.S. has a responsibility to Iraq, the Middle Eastern country from where American troops fully withdrew in 2011. Over the last few weeks, militant terrorists led by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have marched through several cities in defiance of the Iraqi military. President Barack Obama, who authorized the withdrawal, said last week he plans to send a few hundred “military advisers” to Iraq to assist Nouri al-Maliki’s government. 

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