AP, WASHINGTON (AFP) – One American in seven agrees with President George W. Bush that the Iraq conflict constitutes the most important fight in the war on terrorism, according to a Washington Post-ABC poll.
However, 61 percent of the 1,003 persons questioned between October 26 and 29 figured that Iraq is part of the war on terrorism, although only 14 percent said it was the most important one.
Last April, a similar Post-ABC poll found that 77 percent thought the Iraq conflict a factor in the war on terrorism, a figure that has steadily decreased, to 66 percent in September, to 61 percent last week.
Overall approval of the Iraq war has similarly been dropping, from 75 percent in April to 50 percent in September to 47 percent last week, according to the poll.
“These are very important changing perceptions,” Andrew Kohut, polling director for the non-partisan Pew Research Center, told the Post. “What's going on is potentially threatening to support for the war because it's no longer being seen as something we did to protect ourselves” against terrorism.
The Post/ABC poll has a margin for error of plus or minus three percent.
