Subject: Majority oppose the war Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 20:58:38 -0500 Message-ID: <B14120EE5C432443B21102F7925DAD020142095F@COKE.uwec.edu> From: "Grossman, Zoltan C." <GROSSMZC@uwec.edu>
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Poll: Most in U.S. say Iraq war not worthwhile
Tuesday, May 3, 2005 Posted: 8:38 PM EDT (0038 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A majority of Americans do not believe it was worth
going to war in Iraq, a national poll reported Tuesday.
Fifty-seven percent of those polled said they did not believe it was
worth going to war, versus 41 percent who said it was, according to a
CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll of 1,006 adults.
That was a drop in support from February, when 48 percent said it was
worth going to war and half said it was not.
It's also the highest percentage of respondents who have expressed those
feelings and triple the percentage of Americans who said that it was not
worth the cost shortly after the war began about two years ago.
The new poll question, asked by telephone on April 29-May 1, had a
margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.
Asked how things are going for the United States in Iraq, 56 percent
said "badly" or "very badly," up from 45 percent in March.
Forty-two percent said "well" or "very well," down from 52 percent in
March.
The margin of error for that question was plus or minus 3 percentage
points.
Americans appeared evenly divided over whether the decision to send U.S.
troops to Iraq was a mistake, with 49 percent saying yes and 48 percent
saying no. The sampling error was plus or minus 5 points.
Early Tuesday, the U.S. military found the body of a pilot from one of
two missing Marine Corps F/A-18 jets that Navy officials believe
collided while flying in operations in Iraq. (Full story)
The number of U.S. troops who have died in the Iraq war stands at 1,587,
according to the military.
A poll conducted in February showed that the January 30 Iraqi elections
produced a bump in President Bush's approval rating. In that poll, 55
percent of Americans said the Iraq war was not a mistake. (Full story)
Political negotiations since then have delayed the formation of a new
government.
But on Tuesday, Iraqi politicians were putting the finishing touches on
the nation's new Cabinet, with Shiite Arab leader Ibrahim al-Jaafari
sworn in as prime minister.
More than 100 Iraqis, most of them security forces and civilians, have
died in insurgent attacks since last Thursday, when Iraq's transitional
National Assembly approved a partial Cabinet list.