Decline in Iraq news may have boosted U.S. opinion
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A recent decline in U.S. news  coverage from Iraq coincides with improved public opinion about  the war just as the 2008 presidential campaign heads to an  early showdown, a study released on Wednesday said.
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A new Iraq intelligence report says the troop increase is having some success. Did politics influence the findings?
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The United States may be able to reduce its troop levels in Iraq after the January elections if security improves and Iraqi government
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Do Americans trust the top U.S. military commander in Iraq to report what's really going on without making the situation sound better than it is?
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Violence in Iraq is down, but Iraq needs to take advantage of that.
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Public support for the war in Iraq has fallen to a record low, with only 29 percent of Britons believing that it was the right thing to do, according to a poll.
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Public support for the war in Iraq has fallen to a new low and Republican support is beginning to waver, a poll published Tuesday found. In the latest CNN-Opinion Research Corporation poll, 69 percent of those polled believe things are going badly in Iraq, and anti-war sentiment among Republican poll respondents has suddenly increased.
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Congress is expected this week to pick apart U.S. military data suggesting attacks and civilian casualties in Baghdad have sharply decreased in recent months.
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The intelligence community's bleak set of judgments about Iraq, made public yesterday, differs significantly from the flawed assessments of that country's alleged weapons programs that the White House released more than four years ago.
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CONFIDENCE SLIPS &#151; Fewer than half of Americans, 47 percent, think it's likely Iraq will establish a stable, democratic government. In April, 55 percent said they believed such a government probably would be established.
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Despite a tepid embrace from the White House, the Iraq Study Group's recommendations will help shape President George W. Bush's new policy if only because of their popular support, analysts said on Wednesday.
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A majority of Americans approve of U.S. plans for limited troop withdrawals from Iraq but are not more optimistic about the war after testimony last week from a top U.S. general, a new poll found on Tuesday.
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U.S. News & World Report - President Bush and his strategists say they are concerned that partisan differences are pulling Americans apart over Iraq, partly because of the harsh political campaigns that ended in the Democratic takeover of Congress in the November 7 election.
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Americans remain sharply divided in their views of how President Bush is handling Iraq, and their confidence that a stable, democratic government will be established in that country has eroded, an Associated Press poll found.
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Their president's approval ratings are at historic lows. The war in Iraq is grinding down their political prospects, and their party is showing deep divisions on issues such as education and immigration.
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Most Iraqis think the recent US troop surge has failed, a new BBC/ABC opinion poll across Iraq suggests.
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Wide public discontent over the war in Iraq helped sweep Democrats to the control of Congress last year. But Iraq is becoming less of an issue for both parties, either on the campaign trail or in the nation's capital, ahead of the fast-approaching presidential primaries.