Poll: Views on Iraq Unchanged Despite Better Casualty Reports (60% Think Forces Should Be Decreased)

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Source: ABC News

Views on Iraq Unchanged Despite Better Casualty Reports
Sixty Percent Think U.S. Forces Should Be Decreased
Nearly six in 10 see no progress restoring civil order in Iraq. (Maya Alleruzzo/AP Photo) ANALYSIS by PEYTON M. CRAIGHILL
Nov. 6, 2007

Reports of fewer casualties in Iraq haven't altered most Americans' perceptions of the war: Fifty-nine percent still don't think the United States is making significant progress restoring civil order there, and a record six in 10 want the level of U.S. forces reduced.

Those results in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll seem to reflect a continued hardening of attitudes on Iraq. Views on progress are unchanged from early September, and they haven't been positive since December 2005, shortly after the Iraqi elections.

Sixty percent favor withdrawing U.S. forces, a new high (by a scant 2 points from September), while just 9 percent favor increasing troop levels, matching the low set in December 2005. At the same time, relatively few, 17 percent, favor an immediate withdrawal of all U.S. forces, matching its average in polls since 2006.

All told, 63 percent say the war was not worth fighting, almost exactly its average this year, and a majority, steadily since December 2004. Intensity against the war continues to run high, with 51 percent saying they feel "strongly" that it was not worth fighting, more than double its strong supporters.

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[Acadia Blue]

1. No matter how Bush paints it, people see through his lies.

[DuaneBidoux]

2. Iraq as it has been known is disintegrating--that is why casualties are down.

Sunnis, Kurds, and Shiia and separating and the Iraq that was known before the U.S. will never exist again.

The fallout? Maybe Allah will decide that.