Answer this question:

If the U.S. withdraws all combat troops from Iraq, will terrorists stop trying to attack the United States?

Eighty percent said no, 15% were not sure, 5% said, "yes, if we leave Iraq they will stop trying to attack us."
That 5% probably posts incessently at DU, HuffPo and Kos.

What is more interesting from the same Rasmussen poll is that 16% are not sure if "it possible for the U.S. to win the war in Iraq?"

Forty percent say it is possible, 44% say it is not possible--but 16% is a large number of people are "not sure."

But this report is missing the key and logical follow-up question: why?

Why is it not possible?
Why are you not sure?

A few years ago, Pew asked a similar poll question and a surprising number of people answered, "can win, but will not."  Pew, like Rasmussen, didn't ask the obvious follow-up question. 

The answers to those questions will shape the debate and foreign policy as implemented by elected officials for the next 10 months.

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