From Newsday….
At least eight Americans have died in Afghanistan and Iraq in recent days, it emerged yesterday, as a new poll showed a majority of Americans, 66 percent, want the United States to withdraw some or all troops from Iraq.
…While 12 percent of Americans said they want more U.S. troops to be sent to Iraq and 15 percent said the number should stay the same, 30 percent said the number of troops should decrease, and 36 percent said the U.S. should remove all troops, according to a CBS News/New York Times poll out yesterday.
Fifty-three percent of Americans polled said Bush’s recent strategy to send more U.S. troops to Iraq to quell violence has had no impact on the situation, and 66 percent said the war is going badly, down from 74 percent the week before.
The survey of 889 U.S. adults was conducted July 20-22 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.