VIETNAM WAR POLLS

Wingnuts often accuse Kerry of being a traitor, etc. because of his 1971 Senate testimony but they forget the conclusions that most of America had reached well before Kerry spoke out.

In a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday, more than half of those surveyed wanted to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq within the next 12 months. In 1970, roughly half of those surveyed wanted to withdraw U.S. troops from Vietnam within 12 months.

In both surveys, about one-third supported withdrawing troops over as many years as needed, and about one in 10 wanted to send more troops. LINK



In the comparable quarter for the Vietnam War (the third quarter of the war's third year -- that is, the third quarter of 1967), Gallup found 41% saying the conflict was a mistake. It was not until the third quarter of the fourth year of the Vietnam War (August-September 1968) that a majority of Americans said the war was a mistake. LINK