Troop Survey

The charts below appear in a Stars and Stripes survey of deployed US servicemembers and civilian (primarily in Iraq and Afghanistan) who responded to a six-page readership survey. MORI research, whose clients include USA Today, The Washington Post, Knight Ridder and The Seattle Times, compiled the survey results.

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76% of respondents tell us that fighting the war in Iraq is either "very" or "somewhat" worthwhile. Even more, 80% say the same about Afghanistan.

It appears the "support our troops through attempted demoralization" campaign continues to fail... like many of the far left's grassroots programs.

Could it be that only 2% of Senior Officers and 5% of Junior Officers are astute enough to realize how much "worse" things are here in Iraq while 66-69% of the same "ignorantly" suggest conditions have improved?!

The "anything to embarass the President" crowd must be stark raving mad!

Clearly, at 4%, things are twice as bad as in Afghanistan where only 2% of respondents indicate that conditions are worse than when they first arrived!

Surely, the left can exploit this little factoid?!

(Don't ask me, it's political math...)

Respondents just aren't getting the message from home if they think only 5-7% of the US population is poviding weak support! Mainstream Media must triple their calls to action. More protests! More Mother Sheehan! Get Sean Penn on the horn, now!

Interestingly, only 7% of respondents claim to be ill-informed about what the public is doing to support troops in the Middle East.

That's because everywhere I go, there's another sign, another care package, another wall loaded with pictures from school children... every one of them with stories attached.

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Looks like the anti-administration "troop supporters" have found themselves ineffective...

So what else is new?