The Myth of The Pro-War, Pro-Bush Military Shattered in New Poll

TIM WHITMIRE News Observer (North Carolina) October 29, 2005

The shocking results from a new poll show that support among the military for President George W. Bush and his catastrophic failure in Iraq is nearly the same as the civilian population. According to the Associated Press, pollster Hunter Bacot said, “We see that those most involved in the Iraq situation, the military, are not so different from the general public after all and share the same concerns about Iraq. Conventional wisdom might suggest that the military would be more supportive of Bush in Iraq, but that simply isn’t the case if you look at the numbers.” Let’s see if the press covers this huge development.

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