Sixty percent of Americans oppose Iraq war: poll

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Sixty percent of Americans oppose
the U.S. war in Iraq and a majority would support a partial
withdrawal of troops by year’s end, a CNN poll said on
Wednesday.

It was the CNN poll’s highest number opposing the war since
fighting began in March 2003, a figure that has risen steadily
since then, according to the Opinion Research Corp. survey
conducted last week on behalf of the cable network.

The poll showed 36 percent of respondents said they were in
favor of the war — half the peak 72 percent who supported the
war as it began, said the poll of 1,047 Americans.

The telephone survey, which had an error margin of 3
percentage points, showed 61 percent believed at least some
U.S. troops should be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of 2006.

Voter anger over the Iraq war, plagued by insurgent and
sectarian violence with a daily civilian death toll, was cited
in the Connecticut Democratic primary defeat Tuesday of U.S.
Sen. Joseph Lieberman, who strongly backed President George W.
Bush’s war effort.