The Daily Background
| Poll: 2/3rds of military families now say war “going badly”
by Arlen Parsa
The New York Times includes this brief overview of polling in an article published today about how more and more families of military members are turning against the war– and this Administration:
Experts cite three causes of eroding morale among military families: longer and multiple deployments, the continued chaos in Baghdad, and the growing death toll — April, May and June were the deadliest three months for American troops since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.
Among military members and their immediate families who responded to a national New York Times/CBS News poll in May, two-thirds said things were going badly, compared with just over half, about 53 percent, a year ago. Fewer than half of the families and military members said the United States did the right thing in invading Iraq. A year ago more than half held that view, according to the a similar poll taken last July. The May poll had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 7 percentage points.
Senator Webb alluded to this poll in his confrontational Meet The Press appearence alongside Senator Graham, which I posted earlier.
