Only 28 percent of Americans think U.S. will win war in Iraq: poll
Only 28 percent of Americans think their country will probably or definitely win the war in Iraq, down from 35 percent in December, and the lowest since the question was first asked in September 2005, a poll published on Tuesday showed. The share of people who now call the war a mistake is 59 percent, the same as September 2005 and the highest level in the 58 times the question has been asked since the war began, according to the USA Today/Gallup poll, which was conducted from last Thursday through Saturday. Six out of 10 people said they want Congress to set a timetable to withdraw all U.S. troops by the end of 2008. Three-quarters said Congress should require that U.S. troops come home if Iraqi leaders don't keep pledges to reduce violence. Another 76 percent support requiring that U.S. troops returning from Iraq to stay in their homeland for at least one year before being redeployed to the country.

At the same time, six in 10 people said they don't want Congress to deny funding for additional troops to be sent to Iraq. A slim majority, 52 percent, said they don't want lawmakers to revoke the authority they gave U.S. President George W. Bush in 2002 to use military force in Iraq.

Democratic Senator Joseph Biden, a presidential candidate and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is pushing to revoke that authority. Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton, another White House hopeful, wants to cap troop levels in Iraq. In the poll, President Bush's approval rating was 33 percent, a slight dip from last month's 37 percent, while 63 percent disapproved of his performance, higher than the 59 percent in February. The poll of 1,010 people has a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage