Bush losing the support of families with military ties

Families with ties to the military, long a reliable source of support for wartime presidents, disapprove of President Bush and his handling of the war in Iraq, with a majority concluding the invasion was not worth it, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll has found.

The views of the military community, including active-duty service members, veterans and family members, mirror those of the overall adult population, a sign that the strong military endorsement that the Bush administration often pointed to has dwindled in the war's fifth year.

Nearly 6 in 10 military families disapprove of Bush's job performance and the way he has run the war, rating him only slightly better than the general population does.

And among those families with soldiers, sailors and Marines who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan, 60 percent say the war in Iraq is not worth the cost, the same result as all adults surveyed.

The survey, conducted under the supervision of Los Angeles Times Poll Director Susan Pinkus, interviewed 1,467 adults nationwide last Friday through Monday.