Poll: Troops want out of Iraq

A new Zogby poll released today shows that by an overwhelming majority, US troops want the US to pull out of Iraq within a year, with 72 percent support. Only 26 percent believe the U.S. should stay "as long as it takes" and 29 percent favor an immediate withdrawl. Furthermore 93 percent of troops don't think the belief that Iraq had WMD was the reason for invasion; 68 percent believed it was to remove Saddam Hussein from power. The scariest part of the article is where the poll shows how pervasive the belief is, sown by the Bush administration before the war, that Saddam Hussein was involved in the 9/11 attacks:

"Despite the fact that Mr Bush has acknowledged that Iraq played no role in the September 2001 attacks, 85 per cent of troops said the US mission was mainly 'to retaliate for Saddam’s role in the 9/11 attacks', a result that Mr Zogby described as 'bewildering'." (italics added)