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US Poll: 66% want US to withdraw some or all troops from Iraq

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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.

Daily attacks in Iraq hit new high in June

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Via Reuters:

Attacks in Iraq last month reached their highest daily average since May 2003, showing a surge in violence as President George W. Bush completed a buildup of U.S. troops, Pentagon statistics show.
The data, obtained by Reuters from the Defense Department, showed an upward trend in daily attacks over the past four months, when U.S. and Iraqi forces were ramping up operations against insurgents and militants, including al Qaeda, in Iraq.
Pentagon officials were not immediately available to comment on the statistics.
The June numbers showed 5,335 attacks against coalition troops, Iraqi security forces, civilians and infrastructure.
June’s total was 2.5 percent below an October 2006 peak of 5,472 attacks and slightly lower than the 5,365 attacks in May.
But because June has only 30 days, the average daily number of attacks was 177.8, higher than the 176.5 last October and 173.1 in May.
The Pentagon statistics, which come as pressure mounts in the U.S. Congress for a troop withdrawal from Iraq, depicted the most intensive month for daily attacks since Bush declared major combat operations at an end in May 2003.