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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>From the January 9, 2006 edition of the Army Times (<a
href="http://www.armytimes.com/">www.armytimes.com</a>) –<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Troops sound off<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Military Times Poll finds high morale, but less support for
Bush, war effort<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>By Gordon Trowbridge<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Times staff writer <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Support for President Bush and for the war in <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> has
slipped significantly in the last year among members of the military’s
professional core, according to the 2005 Military Times Poll.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Approval of the president’s <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region>
policy fell 9 percentage points from 2004; a bare majority, 54 percent, now say
they view his performance on <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>
as favorable. Support for his overall performance fell 11 points, to 60
percent, among active-duty readers of the Military Times newspapers. Though
support both for Bush and for the war in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region>
remains significantly higher than the public as a whole, the drop is likely to
add further fuel to the heated debate over <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> policy. In 2003 and 2004, supporters
of the war in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>
pointed to high approval ratings in the Military Times Poll as a signal that
military members were behind the president’s policy.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The poll also found diminished optimism that <st1:country-region
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> goals in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> can be accomplished, and a
somewhat smaller drop in support for the decision to go to war in 2003.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The mail survey, conducted Nov. 14 through Dec. 23, is the
third annual effort by the Military Times to measure the opinions of the
active-duty military on political and morale issues. The results should not be
read as representative of the military as a whole; the survey’s
respondents are on average older, more experienced, more likely to be officers
and more career-oriented than the military population. But the numbers are
among the best measures of opinion in a difficult-to-survey population.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>“The professional military seems to be lessening in
its certainty about the wisdom of the <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region>
intervention and the way it has been handled,” said Richard Kohn, a
professor of political science at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">North
Carolina</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> who studies civil-military relations.
“This seems to be more and more in keeping with changes in public views,
and that’s not surprising.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The survey mirrors a similar shift in <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> public
opinion over the last year. The CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll, for example,
recorded an eight-point drop in public approval for <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> policy, from 47 percent in
November 2004 to 39 percent in December 2005.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The drops in support seen in the Military Times Poll are
“real drops, but I see them as reflecting the tone of the country,”
said David Segal, a military sociologist at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Maryland</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>.
“People in the military talk to folks back home. … Eventually, the
military does catch up [with public opinion].”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Other changes from ’04<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Opinions on the president and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> weren’t the only shifts
in the 2005 poll:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>• Positive feelings about Congress, civilian and
uniformed Pentagon leaders, and the media all fell.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>• Respondents also were less likely than in the past
to believe other segments of the country viewed the military favorably. In
2004, 37 percent said civilians viewed the military very favorably; that fell
to 24 percent this year. Last year, 77 percent said politicians saw the
military very or somewhat favorably; 63 percent said so this year.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>• There was somewhat more support for opening military
service to openly homosexual Americans: 59 percent said open homosexuals should
not be allowed to serve, down six points from last year.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>• Opposition to the draft fell slightly, from 75
percent last year to 68 percent this year.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>• Nearly two-thirds said the military is stretched too
thin to be effective, though that figure is down substantially from two years
ago.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>• Job satisfaction and approval of pay, health
benefits, training and equipment remain high — though in many cases, the
support is less enthusiastic than in past years, based on responses.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>• For the first time in the three-year history of the
poll, more than half of respondents said they had deployed in support of the
wars in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region> or <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>But few of the opinoin shifts appear as significant as those
on the president.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>To be sure, support for the president and his policies
remains stronger in the Military Times Poll than in surveys of the general
public: The president’s approval rating is as much as 20 percentage
points higher than in the civilian population. Part of that difference is
partisan: While roughly a third of Americans describe themselves as Democrats,
just 13 percent of Military Times Poll respondents do so.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>In follow-up interviews, most poll respondents said they
remain solidly behind their commander in chief and his policy in <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>“I think we’re fortunate as a country to have
someone who has the focus and the persistence that he does because it’s
so easy to get sidetracked,” said Navy Cmdr. Jeff Bohler. “The
ability of the president to persevere in the face of overwhelming criticism is
really impressive. It takes someone with a spine and courage.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Many attributed the fall in support, both among the public
and the military, to a misguided lack of patience.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>“We live in a society where … people want
answers right away,” said Air Force Capt. Randall Carlson, a physics
instructor at the Air Force Academy, who said he approves of the
president’s policies. “Unfortunately with <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>, there are
no easy answers.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>‘They don’t report good news’<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>While 73 percent of respondents believe it’s likely
the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region> will
succeed in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
that’s down 10 points from a year ago.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>“We’re losing a lot of troops. The suicide
bombers are not stopping,” said Air Force Staff Sgt. Melida G. Castano.
“It doesn’t look promising at this point.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>But others blamed the loss in confidence on the media, which
many said have failed to report positive news in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Four of every five
respondents said they believe media reports often are inaccurate.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>“They don’t report the good news, and if they
do, it’s on the back page,” said Marine Chief Warrant Officer 3
Michael Edmonson.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Though the number of respondents who have deployed to <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region> or <st1:country-region w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:country-region>
was up 17 percentage points from a year ago, to 61 percent, that does not seem
to have significantly affected opinions on <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>. There was no significant
difference in opinions between those who have deployed and those who
haven’t, and responses from the Army and Marine Corps — the
services under the most strain in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> — were not much
different from other services.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Kohn, the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">North Carolina</st1:PlaceName> researcher, said the
shifting opinions on <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>
may simply reflect shifts in the rest of the country. But he said he believes
military opinions are at least partially insulated from civilian trends.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>“The military is very capable of drawing differing
judgments from the general population,” he said. “Military people
think about these things with considerable sophistication. That is also
sometimes undermined by their instinct to be loyal to the administration
— any administration — to the government and to the mission.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>As in the previous two years, Military Times Poll
respondents were reluctant to express opinions, even anonymously, about the
commander in chief or his policies. About one in five refused to say whether
they approved of the president’s performance on <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> or
overall.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>“That’s my boss,” Army Lt. Col. Earnestine
Beatty said in a follow-up interview. “I can’t comment.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Kohn said he worried that asking such questions of military
members and publishing the results could tarnish the military’s image as
a nonpartisan institution.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The poll “tends to communicate to the American people
that the military is just like any other interest group,” Kohn said.
“We want the public image of the military to be decidedly
apolitical.” <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>How we did it<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>On Nov. 14, we mailed questionnaires to 6,000 people drawn
at random from our list of active-duty subscribers. Recipients were asked to
mail their answers to an independent firm that machine-tabulated the results to
guarantee anonymity. We stopped processing incoming questionnaires Dec. 23.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>About 4,000 of the 6,000 people who received questionnaires
turned out to be on active duty. Of those, 1,215 responded, a 30 percent
response rate. The margin of error in the survey is plus or minus 3 percentage
points at the 95 percent confidence interval, meaning there is a 95 percent
probability that results of the poll are accurate within 3 percentage points.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Those polled differ from the military as a whole in
important ways. They tend to be older, higher in rank and more career-oriented.
Even so, it is perhaps the most representative independent sample possible
because of the inherent challenges in polling servicemen and women, according
to polling experts and military sociologists.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The poll has come to be viewed by some as a barometer of the
professional career military.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Morale is usually fairly high in a line unit. It has alot
to do with the camaraderie among the troops, not policy directed from <st1:Street
w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">1600 Pennsylvania Avenue</st1:address></st1:Street>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Take care, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Tom Hansen<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Moscow</span></font></st1:City><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, <st1:State
w:st="on">Idaho</st1:State></span></font></st1:place><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>"Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but
the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime." <br>
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--Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr.</span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
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