Time to Bring The Troops Home

Warnings insurgency would grow issued in '03 — and ignored

By Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. Landay

Knight Ridder Newspapers

WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence agencies repeatedly warned the White House beginning more than two years ago that the insurgency in Iraq had deep local roots, was likely to worsen and could lead to civil war, according to former senior intelligence officials who helped craft the reports. ...(more)

Poll says troops back '06 withdrawal

By Drew Brown

Knight Ridder Newspapers

WASHINGTON — Nearly three of four American troops serving in Iraq think U.S. forces should withdraw within a year, and more than one in four say the United States should leave immediately, according to a new poll published Tuesday. ...(more)

Among troops serving in Iraq;

89 percent of Army reservists,

82 percent of National Guardsmen,

70 percent of regular Army troops

think the United States should leave Iraq within a year.

29% of the Troops in Iraq think the U.S. should withdraw immediately!