Poll: 2/3 US citizens don’t want more troops in Iraq
Two out of three Americans oppose President Bush’s plan to send more troops to Iraq, a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Friday indicates.
Nearly two-thirds of those polled also say Bush has no clear plan for Iraq.
While his numbers have inched up slightly on that question since the previous poll last week, Bush’s address to the nation Wednesday night seems to have made little difference.
Nearly half of those who saw the speech say their minds were not changed, while the rest are evenly split over whether they’d be more or less likely to support his policies.
This is the first poll gauging Americans’ positions on the strategy following Bush’s address. The telephone survey of 1,093 adult Americans was conducted Thursday. The sampling error on all the questions in the poll is plus or minus 3 percentage points.
n his Wednesday evening address, Bush said he would send more than 20,000 additional troops to help the embattled government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Malaki secure Baghdad, the scene of intense sectarian violence, and other regions roiled by the Sunni-backed insurgency.
Bush also said he would request billions of more dollars to fund reconstruction efforts.
In Iraq, the Shiite-led government gave what the New York Times calls a “grudging endorsement” of the plan to send more troops. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki failed to attend a news conference and did not give any public comment.
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