Poll: 53% Think War a Mistake
Bush may be fighting a losing battle. According to the latest poll numbers:
Some 53 percent of people surveyed say the United States made a mistake going to war in Iraq in March 2003, according to an AP-Ipsos poll released Friday. That is the highest number in AP-Ipsos polling who have said the war was a mistake.
In December 2003, almost two-thirds of those questioned said the United States made the right decision in waging war.
How many more vets are we going to see come home without limbs?
Some drink to escape the pain. Others do drugs. And a number sink into a deep depression that ends in suicide. Life for triple amputees can be rough.....On the lawn outside the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., a mother spoke on her cell phone in between puffs on a cigarette.
"I feel like I'm on a roller coaster," Doris Smith of St. Augustine, Fla., said on the phone to her family. "At night, when I get home, I can't sleep." After hanging up, Smith explained: Her 21-year-old Army son, Chad Smith, was injured by an improvised explosive device while he was in Iraq.
"There is a lot of tragedy up on that floor," she said, gesturing toward the hospital. "So many families have been disrupted because of it, and the public is unaware of it. ... They look at the casualties, but the wounded has been astronomical."
Let's hope that in another three months, the numbers will be as high for those who say bring the troops home now.
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