Iraq exit splits Utahns

But that support is clearly slipping as America enters its fifth year of the war, which is longer than the United States fought in either World War II or the U.S. Civil War.

Support for Bush and the war clearly breaks out along partisan political lines in Utah.

Jones found in the new survey that 67 percent of Utah Republicans still say American troops should stay in Iraq until some kind of victory is achieved. Democrats and political independents nix that approach. Ninety percent of Democrats say the troops should be brought home; 60 percent of independents say the troops should be brought home in a certain time-frame, not waiting for "victory."

Sixty-four percent of Utah Republicans think U.S. troops should be out of Iraq within three years, Jones found.

But Democrats and independents differ. Jones found that 96 percent of Utah Democrats say the troops should all be brought home within three years, and 72 percent of independents say the troops should be returned home within three years.

The Utah poll reflects the lack of national consensus about the best time frame for bringing the troops home. In a recent debate, even the leading Democratic presidential candidates couldn't promise that all U.S. troops will be out of Iraq at the end of his or her first term — in 2013.

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