People are against the war as it is being fought-they want us to kick ass, take names and win.
...and the November election was widely seen as a repudiation of the administration's policy.
Widely seen by 'rats in congress and their MSM buddies, not by anyone else.
I'd just like to point out how this sentence is a masterpiece of tendentious journalism: Analysis time:
Polls show For this to be true, all we need is two polls. We've got our plural then. If 100 polls show that opinion FOR the war is picking up, but two show it's going the other way, the sentence is true as written. -- virtually meaningless, but true>
public opinion turning against the war So I poll 10 people in November. 9 are for the war, 1 is against it. I poll the same group in February. Now 1 is against the war, and 1 is undecided, while 8 support it. My headline is Polls show opinion turning against, and the next line is doubts about war increase 100%!
I KNOW that the numbers in this case may be more significant. My point is only that journalists are so used to lying that even when they tell the truth (It MUST happen sometimes ...) they do so in obfuscatory ways.