Commanding majority opposes more troops in Iraq
By Ronald Brownstein
LA Times
WASHINGTON — A commanding majority of Americans oppose President Bush's decision to send more troops to Iraq and just over half the country wants Congress to block the deployment, a Times/Bloomberg poll has found.
As he seeks to chart a new course in Iraq, Bush also faces pervasive resistance and skepticism toward the U.S. commitment — more than three-fifths of those surveyed said the war was not worth fighting and only one-third approved of his handling of the conflict.
And in a striking measure of Bush's declining credibility, half said they believed he deliberately misled the U.S. in making his case for invading Iraq.
On all three questions, these are Bush's weakest showing in a Times poll.
Asked about Bush's recent announcement that he would dispatch another 21,500 troops to Iraq, three-fifths said they opposed the move, while just over one-third backed it.
Even Bush's political base, a source of support throughout his presidency, showed signs of cracking: about one-fourth of Republicans said they do not believe the war was worth fighting and a roughly equal number opposed the troop increase.
"I want us to get out. I want us to leave," said poll respondent Beth Anderson, a Republican from Belle Center, Ohio, who has a son in the Army.
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LA Times
WASHINGTON — A commanding majority of Americans oppose President Bush's decision to send more troops to Iraq and just over half the country wants Congress to block the deployment, a Times/Bloomberg poll has found.
As he seeks to chart a new course in Iraq, Bush also faces pervasive resistance and skepticism toward the U.S. commitment — more than three-fifths of those surveyed said the war was not worth fighting and only one-third approved of his handling of the conflict.
And in a striking measure of Bush's declining credibility, half said they believed he deliberately misled the U.S. in making his case for invading Iraq.
On all three questions, these are Bush's weakest showing in a Times poll.
Asked about Bush's recent announcement that he would dispatch another 21,500 troops to Iraq, three-fifths said they opposed the move, while just over one-third backed it.
Even Bush's political base, a source of support throughout his presidency, showed signs of cracking: about one-fourth of Republicans said they do not believe the war was worth fighting and a roughly equal number opposed the troop increase.
"I want us to get out. I want us to leave," said poll respondent Beth Anderson, a Republican from Belle Center, Ohio, who has a son in the Army.
(Continued here.)
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