"With U.S. troops continuing to take casualties in Iraq, less than half of Americans now believe the U.S. is in control of the situation there -- a dramatic decline from April, when 71 percent thought it was," reports CBS News. Moreover, "For the first time a majority now says the Bush administration overestimated the extent of the Iraqis' weapons."

According to CostOfWar.com [3], the cost of the war in Iraq has reached

and counting.