It's possible that some people are thinking that the ground troops will face almost no casualties, as happened in the Persian Gulf,

I think that's one of the things that made people start thinking differently about Vice President Bush in early 1988, where they started to see him come out on his own, become his own man, win a few,

Americans may rally around a president when he sends troops to war but not when he sends them the bill.

It's difficult to tell from these poll results how the speech will affect general U.S. public,

(Supporting troops) is important because they don't have places to go. ... They need people thinking of them.

We were thinking of our troops, the people in Iraq, Americans. We wanted to prevent innocent people from being killed. We wanted to make visible the truth of war. We were called by our faith, the law and our moral beliefs to peacefully protest the war.