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Bush Losing Military Families

60% no longer support Bush or Iraq war
By Peter Fearon,  Newser Staff
Posted Dec 7, 2007 6:15 AM CST
Bush Losing Military Families
U.S. soldiers at a check point in central Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, April 26, 2007. A new poll says President Bush is losing the support of military families.(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)   (Associated Press)

Military families, traditionally staunch supporters of presidents in time of war, are abandoning President Bush and wavering in their endorsement of the conflict in Iraq, according to a new Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg  poll. Nearly 60% of military families disapprove of the president's job performance and say the war is not worth the human cost.

"I pray to God they did not die in vain, but I don't think our president is even sensitive at all to what it's like to have a child serving over there," said one woman whose son was wounded in Iraq. "We support the troops; we don't support Bush," said another military mom responding to the poll. (More poll stories.)

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