A new Military Times poll is being gleefully spun by the moonbats as proof that President Bush has lost the support of our troops. (The Military Times cautions that its mail-in poll, of 1,215 active-duty servicemen who subscribe to the Military Times and its family of newsweeklies, “is not necessarily representative of the military as a whole.”)

Approval of the president’s Iraq policy fell 9 percentage points from 2004, according to the survey. But despite the relentless anti-war drumbeat of the MSM and the Dems, our troops still support President Bush–and his handling of the war in Iraq–by large margins. Read the poll results for yourself. Some highlights:

Should the U.S. have gone to war in Iraq?
Yes 56%
No 26%
No opinion/no answer 7%
Decline to answer/no answer 11%

Regardless of whether you think the U.S. should have gone to war, how likely is the U.S. to succeed?
Very likely to succeed 31%
Somewhat likely to succeed 42%
Not very likely to succeed 17%
Not at all likely to succeed 3%
No opinion/no answer 6%

Do you approve or disapprove of the way George W. Bush is handling the situation with Iraq?
Approve 54%
Disapprove 25%
No opinion 9%
Decline to answer 12%

President George W. Bush has my best interests at heart.
Strongly agree 19%
Agree 39%
Disagree 18%
Strongly disagree 11%
No opinion/no answer 12%

Our troops’ view of Congress, on the other hand, is another matter:

Congress has my best interests at heart.
Strongly agree 2%
Agree 29%
Disagree 40%
Strongly disagree 17%
No opinion/no answer 11%

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Reader Tom B. writes:

Michelle -

Don’t know if you caught this:

But the first question on the poll shows that the majority of respondants to the Military Times poll have not even deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.

I’m a current GI and former Marine who has not yet deployed, either (although that will change in a few months time). Although I have spoken with many of my fellow soldiers who have been downrange, where does most of the information I get come from? The MSM…same as any civilian out there. And, like many of them, I view what I’m told skeptically.

The point is: this poll was taken among people, albeit servicemen and women, who, for the most part, have not put boots on the ground, and seen with their own eyes, the true state of things in Iraq and Afghanistan.

That certainly adds a dimension to the results of the poll, wouldn’t you say?

Reader Christopher J. writes:

Michelle, just a heads up on the Military Times family of publications. I was a regular reader of the Marine Times for most of my 17+ year career up until about 2004. It became obvious to me they had a left-leaning agenda. One of their regular features is a cartoon section titled “How others See the Military.” IMHO, they are mostly shots at the military and the president, hiding behind the guise of “other people’s oppinions,” but negative towards the ones they claim to serve. I sent them an email complaining with no obvious impact. So I stopped buying and reading it.

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