[Peace-discuss] Americans don't support administration's war

[C. G. Estabrook]

	Most Americans oppose Afghan war: Poll
	Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:38:04 GMT

Most Americans now oppose the war in Afghanistan, which has been intensified by 
the deployment of tens of thousands of troops, a poll says.

In a new low in public support for the war effort, 54 percent of respondents 
said they opposed the US-led fight against the Taliban and their Al-Qaeda 
allies, with only 41 percent in favor, according to the CNN/Opinion Research 
Corporation poll.

The survey came as violence hit an all-time high in the nearly eight-year-old 
war, with 76 foreign troops killed in July, including 45 US troops ahead of the 
August 20 elections. Another 14 Western soldiers have died in Afghanistan so far 
this month.

In the previous CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll that was conducted in May, 
50 percent of those surveyed supported the US-led war, with 48 percent against.

President Barack Obama has dispatched 21,000 US troops to the war-torn country, 
with the US contingent set to reach 68,000 by the end of the year, but the 
Democratic president's move is hurting support within his own party.

"Afghanistan is almost certainly the Obama policy that Republicans like the 
most," said CNN polling Director Keating Holland.

"Nearly two thirds of the Republicans support the war in Afghanistan. Three 
quarters of Democrats oppose the war."

The poll was conducted by telephone from July 31 through August 3, with 1,136 US 
adults surveyed and a margin of error or plus or minus three percentage points.

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