Poll: Majority mistrustful of upcoming Iraq report

[jefferson_dem]

Poll: Majority mistrustful of upcoming Iraq report

Fifty-three percent say they don't trust military assessment of situation in Iraq
Forty-three percent say they do trust report by U.S. Army's top general in Iraq
CNN polling director thinks mistrust is directed at Bush administration


WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A majority of Americans don't trust the upcoming report by the Army's top commander in Iraq on the progress of the war and even if they did, it wouldn't change their mind, according to a new poll.

Gen. David Petraeus confers with officers in Iraq in July. His progress report on the war is due next month.

President Bush frequently has asked Congress -- and the American people -- to withhold judgment on his so-called troop surge in Iraq until Gen. David Petraeus, the commander in Iraq, and Ryan Crocker, U.S. ambassador to Iraq, issue their progress report in September.

But according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Thursday, 53 percent of people polled said they suspect that the military assessment of the situation will try to make it sound better than it actually is. Forty-three percent said they do trust the report.

CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said he doesn't think the mistrust is directed at Petreaus as much as it is what he represents.

Holland said, "I suspect most people are hearing the words 'general' and 'Iraq' and that's what they're basing their opinion on."

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http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/16/poll.iraq.report/index.html

[rodeodance]

1. Trust has to be earned. But I do not think the WH even cares anymore.

[ThomWV]

2. How would they feel if they knew the Army isn't even writing the report?