http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070514/APN/705141431&cachetime=5A majority of Alabama residents questioned in a recent poll say the war in Iraq is not worth the loss of life and the amount of money it has cost.
The poll is in contrast to surveys three years ago, when most respondents said they supported the war, The Birmingham News said in a story on the poll Saturday.
The statewide telephone poll of 563 registered voters was conducted May 2-3 and May 7-9 by the Capital Survey Research Center, the polling arm of the Alabama Education Association. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Overall, 61 percent of those in the survey said they thought Alabama was on the right track, but only 33 percent said the same about the nation. When asked to list the most important issue facing the country, the largest portion - 38 percent - said war.
Karl Chesser of Woodstock expressed the sentiment concerning the war of some respondents to the poll.
"We ain't accomplishing nothing," the 42-year-old USX employee said last week. "So why are we over there?"