US voters grow sceptical of Bush decision to go to war

PUBLIC opinion favoured US President George W Bush’s decision to go to war in Iraq about 2-to-1 soon after Saddam Hussein’s capture, but months of chaos and casualties have taken a heavy toll on public support for the war.

Now the public is evenly divided on whether the war was the right thing to do or whether it was a mistake.

Among those increasingly sceptical about the war are older people, minorities, people with lower incomes, residents of the North-East and Catholics, according to Associated Press polling.