Majority of Americans now feel Iraq war was wrong: poll

The bad news for the Bush White House keeps coming. This is from Yahoo News:

WASHINGTON (AFP) - For the first time, a majority of Americans believe the Iraq war was the "wrong thing to do", according to a poll published in The Wall Street Journal.

Fifty-three percent of those asked in the Harris Interactive survey felt that "taking military action against Iraq was the... wrong thing to do", against 34 percent who thought it was correct, the newspaper said.

The percentage of people opposing the US-led invasion of the country in March 2003 was up from a figure of 49 percent in a parallel poll in September, rising above 50 percent for the first time since the surveys began.

A year before, in September 2004, both sides were even at 43 percent.

The latest poll also found that 66 percent of Americans believed President George W. Bush was doing a "poor" or "only fair" job of handling Iraq, against 32 percent who deemed it "excellent" or "pretty good".

With the number of US military fatalities in Iraq approaching 2,000, 44 percent of those polled said the situation for US troops in Iraq was getting worse, compared to 19 percent who thought it was improving.

Sixty-one percent were not confident US policies in Iraq would succeed, two points higher than in September.

The poll asked the opinions of 1,833 people online from October 11-17.

We are looking at a White House that exists in a fantasyland--completely detached from any sense of reality. Bush still believes he's right about invading Iraq--no matter what the public opinion polls say. The president was probably deceived by Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, and the rest of the PNAC people still residing in his administration for invading Iraq and embarking on this failure of American imperialism in the Middle East. And now the PR spin-machine has got a huge monkey wrench thrown into it with the Valerie Plame leaks pointing directly at the president's top men of Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, and Dick Cheney, with the possibility of indictments handed down this week from Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's office. It is completely mind-boggling.