CNN Poll: Only 11% Back Call to Send More Troops to Iraq
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President Bush, according to reports, is strongly considering sending a "surge" of troops to Iraq in the new year -- 20,000 or more. Sen. John McCain and Sen. Joe Lieberman have already backed such a plan. But a new poll for CNN released Monday found that this idea draws the support of only 11 percent of Americans.
Fewer than a third of Americans still support the war in Iraq, and more than half say they want U.S. troops out of the country within a year, according to the CNN poll. This 31 percent support marked a new low in the Opinion Research survey.
What is happening here is not a "surge", it is an escalation.
For a previous example, see Vietnam, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 1966