{"id":3244,"date":"2004-12-28T17:24:15","date_gmt":"2004-12-28T23:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sgtstryker.com\/index.php\/archives\/military-times-poll\/"},"modified":"2004-12-28T17:24:15","modified_gmt":"2004-12-28T23:24:15","slug":"military-times-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/archives\/military-times-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Times Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The results of the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarycity.com\/polls\/\">Military Times Poll<\/a> are in. The results, with respect to both morale, and support for President Bush, are quite good. This is not a scientific poll, of course. But I think we will all be agreed here that this is pretty representative of the general attitude of the troops. Here&#8217;s a summary from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/world\/iraq\/2004-12-26-poll_x.htm\">USA Today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSixty-three percent of respondents approve of the way President Bush is handling the war, and 60% remain convinced it is a war worth fighting. Support for the war is even greater among those who have served longest in the combat zone: Two-thirds of combat vets say the war is worth fighting.<\/p>\n<p>But the men and women in uniform are under no illusions about how long they will be fighting in Iraq; nearly half say they expect to be there more than five years.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, 87%% say they&#8217;re satisfied with their jobs and, if given the choice today, only 25% say they&#8217;d leave the service.<\/p>\n<p>Compared with last year, the percentages for support for the war and job satisfaction remain essentially unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>A year ago, 77% said they thought the military was stretched too thin to be effective. This year, that number shrank to 66%.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, there are some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newshounds.us\/cgi-bin\/mt-tb.cgi\/4607\">leftist propagandists<\/a> out there who would like to use this poll&#8217;s lack of scientific validity to convince their readers that the morale of our troops is lagging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results of the annual Military Times Poll are in. The results, with respect to both morale, and support for President Bush, are quite good. This is not a scientific poll, of course. But I think we will all be agreed here that this is pretty representative of the general attitude of the troops. Here&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}