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Bush loses ground with military
families
Faye Fiore
LA
Times
Friday December 7, 2007
Families with ties to the military, long a reliable
source of support for wartime presidents, disapprove of President
Bush and his handling of the war in Iraq, with a majority concluding
the invasion was not worth it, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll
has found.
The views of the military community, which includes active-duty
service members, veterans and their family members, mirror those
of the overall adult population, a sign that the strong military
endorsement that the administration often pointed to has dwindled
in the war's fifth year.
Nearly six out of every 10 military families disapprove of Bush's
job performance and the way he has run the war, rating him only
slightly better than the general population does.
And among those families with soldiers, sailors and Marines who
have served in Iraq or Afghanistan, 60% say that the war in Iraq
was not worth the cost, the same result as all adults surveyed.
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"I don't see gains for the people of Iraq . . . and, oh,
my God, so many wonderful young people, and these are the ones
who felt they were really doing something, that's why they signed
up," said poll respondent Sue Datta, 61, whose youngest son,
an Army staff sergeant, was seriously wounded in Iraq last year
and is scheduled to redeploy in 2009. "I pray to God that
they did not die in vain, but I don't think our president is even
sensitive at all to what it's like to have a child serving over
there."
Patience with the war, which has now lasted longer than the U.S.
involvement in World War II, is wearing thin -- particularly among
families who have sent a service member to the conflict. One-quarter
say American troops should stay "as long as it takes to win."
Nearly seven in 10 favor a withdrawal within the coming year or
"right away."
Military families are only slightly more patient: 35% are willing
to stay until victory; 58% want the troops home within a year
or sooner.
Full
article here.
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