Strong US public support for the war in Iraq - in spite of mounting costs and casualties - has been one of the main factors encouraging the administration of President George W. Bush to stay the course.
For more than a decade before battle began in March 2003, about 65 per cent of Americans consistently favoured military means to oust Saddam Hussein from Iraq. Even the revelation that the former dictator did not possess mass destruction weapons did not alter the majority of Americans' belief that the war had been the right choice at the right time.
