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"For months, President Bush has struggled to maintain public support for the war in Iraq in the face of periodic setbacks on the battlefield," reports Doyle McManus. "Now he faces a second front in the battle for public opinion: charges that the administration is not telling the truth about how the war is going. ... Several recent polls have found that a majority of Americans now believe that the United States made a mistake in going to war in Iraq, and increasing numbers - but not a majority - said they want U.S. troops to be withdrawn immediately. 'What's interesting in this decline in support for the war is that it has sprung from the public itself,' said pollster Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center. 'It wasn't led by politicians or by an antiwar movement.'"
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