Just yesterday, the president was asked whether he cared about public support for the war, or whether he's content with letting the results vindicate his strategy eventually. Bush said, "Yes, I care, I really do. I wish — and so, therefore, I'm going to spend a lot of time trying to explain as best I can why it's important for us to succeed in Iraq."
He may want to consider a different tack. He's been trying to explain this for years, and support for the war has never been this low.
Opposition among Americans to the war in Iraq has reached a new high, with only about a third of respondents saying they favor it, according to a poll released Monday.
Just 35 percent of 1,033 adults polled say they favor the war in Iraq; 61 percent say they oppose it — the highest opposition noted in any CNN poll since the conflict began more than three years ago.
And this isn't a situation in which the president can just spin his way out of the problem. The same poll showed that most Americans (54%) don't consider him honest, most (54%) don't think he shares their values, and most (58%) say he does not inspire confidence.
First, Republicans are still planning to make Iraq a key part of the midterm cycle? Really?
And second, if the GOP's plan is to smear war critics as unpatriotic terrorist-sympathizers, are they really poised to condemn three-fifths of the country?
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