That's right. It's official. The war in Iraq is now the more unpopular than Vietnam was.
A new USA Today/Gallup poll finds that:
63% of Americans [say] the United States made a mistake in sending troops to Iraq
More details after the fold.
The following graphic shows the question posed, and tracks the answer over the past 5 years:
The Poll about the Vietnam War was done in May 1971:
twelve years into the Vietnam War,
or 7 years if you believe The Gulf of Tonkin Incident was the beginning of the war,
or 6 years from the date the "official escalation of the war" started,
or 3 years after the Tet Offensive.
By time of the 1971 poll there had been:
53,849 American troop fatalities,
97,763 fatalities in the South Vietnamese Army,
over a million North Vietnamese Army fatalities,
and countless civilian deaths...
That poll showed that only 61% of those polled thought it was a mistake.
As for the Iraq war, it took 5 years to get to 63%.
It took:
4,032 American troop deaths,
1,201,597 Iraqi deaths
$514,025,000,000 (as of 6:10 PM today, April 24, 2008)
If anybody knows how to get this news and statistics to McCain, please do. However, I doubt his 100-year policy would change.
Peace.