Two new, separate Gallup polls strongly indicate that Americans favor withdrawing some or all troops from Iraq:

Perhaps most revealing was a new poll which asked 1,007 Americans, “If you could talk with President Bush for 15 minutes about the situation in Iraq, what would you, personally, advise him to do?” The poll taken in late August found that 41% said they would tell him to pull troops out of Iraq and end our involvement there.

Far behind in second place (18%) was to finish what we started or be more aggressive. Another 7% advised coming up with an exit strategy.

A separate Gallup poll found that 53% of Americans favor a reduction of U.S. troops in Iraq. This includes 26% who prefer withdrawing all troops.

In the same survey, only 40% of Americans approve, while 59% disapprove of the way Bush is handling Iraq. Fifty-three percent of Americans think going to war in Iraq was a mistake, similar to the 54% who said this in early August.

This follows up numerous other polls, including a Harris Interactive poll where 58 per cent of respondents think the invasion of Iraq has not helped to protect the U.S. from another terrorist attack, up five points since last November; and an AP poll previously reported on here at Virtue.

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In his September 6th article, “The Tipping Point on Iraq,” Robert Dreyfuss writes:

John Warner, R.-Va., . . . warned that public opinion on Iraq is approaching the “tipping point,” after which support for the war in Iraq would no longer be sustainable. “The level of concern is, I think, gradually rising,” he told The New York Times. “I don’t see that the Congress is going to suddenly pull back like in the days of Vietnam. It is the desire of the Congress to continue to work with and support the administration. But there is always a tipping point.”