UPI Poll: Support for growing U.S. forces

UPI Poll: Support for growing U.S. forcesWASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- The Bush administration plan to expand the U.S. military by 92,000 troops is favored by more than half the participants in a UPI-Zogby International poll.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said he wanted the U.S. Army to add 65,000 soldiers and the U.S. Marines to add 27,000 personnel over the next five years. The increases would give the United States an Army of 547,000 troops and a corps of 202,000 Marines.
The war in Iraq, tied to cutbacks in the size of the military during previous administrations, has left the U.S. military stretched.
And nearly two-thirds of respondents to a Jan. 16-18 Zogby interactive poll either "strongly agree" or "somewhat agree" with the concept. And most of those -- 39.2 percent of the total sample -- were in the "strongly agree" column. Another 24.1 percent "somewhat" agreed.
But 20.1 percent said they "strongly" disagreed and 12.9 percent "somewhat" disagree.
Not surprisingly military personnel who were asked backed the idea, with 49.3 percent "strongly" agreeing and 23 percent "somewhat" agreeing. Fifteen percent "strongly" disagreed.
There were 6,882 U.S. participants in the poll, giving the data a margin of error of 1.2 percentage points.
(1/23/2007) - United Press International, DailyIndia.com
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