- One in three Americans say the United States is winning
the war on terrorism, according to a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll. Half say
the war is at a stalemate.
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- Public confidence that the United States and its allies
are winning has slipped to 33%, the lowest level since Sept. 11.
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- In January, amid news reports that the U.S. military
had al-Qaeda terrorists on the run, 66% said the United States was winning
the war.
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- Now the news is a steady stream of warnings that terrorists
are planning to strike U.S. targets and reports that intelligence and law
enforcement agencies missed critical clues leading to the attacks on Sept.
11. And 49% of poll respondents say neither side is winning the war on
terrorism; 14% say the terrorists are winning.
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- Still, 51% say the United States should mount a long-term
war to defeat global terrorist networks. That figure is down from a high
of 62% last November. Eighty percent say the United States should keep
military forces in Afghanistan.
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- Overall, 73% approve of the job President Bush is doing.
The poll of 1,020 adults taken Friday through Sunday has an error margin
of +/--3 percentage points.
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- http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020625/4219854s.htm
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