Mlitary, Too, Now Looking For The Exit In Iraq

Thanks to Democratic Undergound for the links to a poll taken among active duty military personnel and published yesterday at MilitaryCity.com which finds:

Approval of the president’s Iraq policy fell 9 percentage points from 2004; a bare majority, 54 percent, now say they view his performance on Iraq as favorable. Support for his overall performance fell 11 points, to 60 percent, among active-duty readers of the Military Times newspapers.
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The poll also found diminished optimism that U.S. goals in Iraq can be accomplished, and a somewhat smaller drop in support for the decision to go to war in 2003.
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• Nearly two-thirds said the military is stretched too thin to be effective, though that figure is down substantially from two years ago.
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• For the first time in the three-year history of the poll, more than half of respondents said they had deployed in support of the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan.

The declining support is not surprising as the military is composed, like the American public, of mostly resonable people who can be fooled for some of the time, but not all the time. More and more it's looking like time is up for this lyin' & spyin' White House gang.

Not reported in the write-up on the site is whether those deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan are more or less or similarly positive/negative in their appraisal of Bush's Iraq policy than those who have not served there. Now that would really tell the story of what's happening over there.