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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Bush's speech on Iraq and Petraeus's progress report on the 'surge' swayed few Americans, polls show.
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As the British announced the beginning of their departure from Iraq yesterday, President Bush's top foreign policy aide proclaimed it "basically a good-news story." Yet for an already besieged White House, the decision was doing a good job masquerading as a bad-news story.
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September was supposed to be the decisive month, when either antiwar sentiment pushed Republicans to back Democratic calls for troop withdrawals, or progress in Baghdad won President Bush time to pursue his counterinsurgency strategy. It would all be clearer, lawmakers on both sides of the debate...
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Public opinion favored President Bush's decision to go to war in Iraq about 2-to-1 soon after Saddam Hussein's capture, but months of chaos and casualties have taken a heavy toll on public support for the war. Now the public is evenly divided on whether the war was the right thing to do or whether it was a mistake.
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In our "Notebook:Iraq" blog: how gratitude has gone away.
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Less than one in four Americans approves of President George W. Bush's handling of the Iraq war, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released on Wednesday that mirrored other recent surveys.
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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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Most Americans think this week's report from Army Gen. David H. Petraeus will exaggerate progress in Iraq, and few expect it to result in a major shift in President Bush's policy. But despite skepticism about the Petraeus testimony and majority support for a U.S. troop reduction in Iraq, there has...
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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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The Bush administration has sought to downplay the significance of a US intelligence forecast painting a pessimistic picture for the future of Iraq, insisting that predictions of difficulties ahead -- including the possibility of civil
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Overall violence continues to decline in Iraq, although the rate of decrease has slowed since September and a few indicators have actually gone up in recent weeks, according to U.S. military figures released yesterday by the White House.
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British media roundly welcomed the Iraq Study Group's report on US policy in Iraq, with one newspaper declaring it a &quot;whiff of realism&quot;.
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Two Hollywood films that take up the politics of the Iraq war grew out of the conviction that the American public was not getting the full picture of the violence.
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WASHINGTON -- The United States may have to lower expectations for Iraq as it embarks on a new war plan, President Bush's choice to become the top US military commander for the Middle East said yesterday.
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Does America prefer its media to ignore deaths caused by U.S. actions?
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A majority of Americans now say the  war in Iraq was not worth fighting, a view that has driven down  the ratings of President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald  Rumsfeld, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll  released on Monday.