Four years into the Iraq war, most Americans say they have little or no confidence inthe information they receive – from either the military or the media – about how things are going on the ground. Fewer than half (46%) say they have a great deal or fair amount of confidence that the U.S. military is giving the public an accurate picture of the situation, and even fewer (38%) are confident in the press’s portrayal of the war.
In March 2003 – in the first week of U.S. troop deployment in Iraq – fully 85% said they had at least a fair amount of confidence in military information, and nearly as many, 81%, were confident that the press was giving an accurate picture of the war.
On the negative side, 21% now say they have no confidence in military reports, while 27% have no confidence in press reports on the war. At the start of the war, virtually nobody expressed such views.
The military brass should be very worried about the loss of belief in the military's veracity about Iraq. It will be harder to have an all-volunteer military if too mnay don't trust the military. As usual these days, there's a significant partisan split in attitudes:
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