Poll: Americans' confidence in Iraq war drops sharply

    WASHINGTON, March 18 (Xinhua) -- Americans are now starkly less confident of their country's involvement in Iraq, according to a CNN poll released Sunday ahead of the war's 4-year anniversary.

    According to the survey, 35 percent of Americans are confident about the war, a sharp contrast with the 83 percent gained four years ago when the war began.

Poll: most Iraqis say their lives not going well

    WASHINGTON, March 19 (Xinhua) -- Six in 10 Iraqis say their lives are going badly, and only one-third expect things to improve in the next year, a poll published on Monday showed.

    The survey of 2,212 Iraqis, sponsored jointly by USA TODAY, ABC News, the British Broadcasting Corp. and ARD, a German TV network, found that four years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraqis said their daily lives have been torn apart by spiraling violence and a faltering economy.