PRINCETON, N.J., Aug. 3 (UPI) -- A new Gallup Poll finds little shift in U.S. attitudes toward the Iraq war with a majority favoring withdrawal of U.S. troops within a year.
Fifty-five percent of those surveyed supported either immediate withdrawal or withdrawal by August 2007. Only a minority wanted troops withdrawn from Iraq immediately.
Another 35 percent of respondents say that troops should leave Iraq as the situation there allows, while a small percentage supports sending in more troops.
The poll also found a marked partisan divide with 31 percent of Democrats and only 3 percent of Republicans favoring immediate withdrawal and 46 percent and 25 percent, respectively, supporting setting an August 2007 deadline. While 58 percent of Republicans supported withdrawal without a deadline and 11 percent would like to increase the U.S. force, the figures for Democrats were 19 percent and 2 percent.
Independents are in the middle, although tending toward Democratic views.
