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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-22-04 06:22 PM
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Support for war in Iraq is slipping fast, before this attack in Mosul....
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And once the support is lost, will it ever be regained? This is not good for the Monkey Boy...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14266-2004Dec20.html

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President Bush heads into his second term amid deep and growing public skepticism about the Iraq war, with a solid majority saying for the first time that the war was a mistake and most people believing that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld should lose his job, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

While a slight majority believe the Iraq war contributed to the long-term security of the United States, 70 percent of Americans think these gains have come at an "unacceptable" cost in military casualties. This led 56 percent to conclude that, given the cost, the conflict there was "not worth fighting" -- an eight-point increase from when the same question was asked this summer, and the first time a decisive majority of people have reached this conclusion.

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