MILITARY — MILITARY FAMILIES OVERWHELMINGLY REJECT IRAQ WAR: President Bush has long claimed the support of the military community for his war positions. “They know that the only way to stop them [terrorists] is to stay on the offense, to fight the extremists and radicals where they live, so we don’t have to fight them where we live,” Bush said last April. He added, “The families…understand that our troops want to finish the job.” A new Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll finds that “nearly 6 in 10 military families disapprove of Bush’s job performance and the way he has run the war, rating him only slightly better than the general population does. Among those families with soldiers, sailors and Marines who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan, 60% say the war in Iraq was not worth the cost.” Nearly 70 percent of families with veterans favor withdrawing troops from Iraq either immediately or within the next year, with only 26 percent favoring staying “as long as it takes.” VetVoice has more.

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