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To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (248088)	7/2/2003 6:57:51 AM
From: UnBelievable	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

American Public Wavers Over Iraq Involvement President George W. Bush (pictured) on Tuesday sought to allay public concerns over the US military involvement in Iraq amid evidence of waning American public support. Two months after he triumphantly announced the end of major combat operations in Iraq on the flightdeck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, the president signalled his resolve to install a secure, representative government in Iraq. Mr Bush, who has left the realities of regime change to administration officials and Americans on the ground in Iraq aimed to demonstrate his direct involvement in the Iraq situation in a speech to US military personnel in the White House. His comments came as opinion polls showed growing public discomfort at the inability to secure Iraq and find the weapons of mass destruction that provided much of the rationale for the war to topple Saddam Hussein. According to two polls over the past two weeks from CNN/USA Today/Gallup and the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA), the overwhelming support enjoyed by Mr Bush in his Iraq campaign is fading. Worries over the security situation in Iraq, where three soldiers were reported injured after troops came under attack on Tuesday, are paramount. So is a growing belief that the Bush administration was not straight when it built its case for war. According to CNN/USA Today/ Gallup, the percentage of Americans believing "the situation in Iraq is/was worth going to war over" has dropped from 76 per cent at the height of the war in early April to 56 per cent. PIPA revealed that while most Americans believed in May that post-war Iraq was "going well", a small majority now thought things were going "not very well" or "not well at all". However, Paul Bremer, the leading US official in Baghdad, said on Tuesday: "Day by day, conditions in Iraq continue to improve, freedom becomes more and more entrenched and the dark days . . . are further and further back in people's memories." PIPA found that 62 per cent of Americans believed that when the US presented evidence of Iraq having WMD it was either "stretching the truth but not making false statements" (52 per cent) or "presenting evidence they knew was false" (10 per cent). news.ft.com