A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 59% of Americans want U.S. troops to come home from Iraq within a year. That figure has remained remarkably consistent over the past year. Last December, 64% supported the Iraq Study Group recommendation to remove “almost all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by early 2008.

The 59% who want the troops to come home include 26% who want the troops withdrawn immediately and 33% who want them to come home within a year.

Currently, 36% of American adults take an entirely different view and believe that the troops should remain in Iraq until the mission is complete.

All questions concerning Iraq reveal stark partisan differences.

Eighty-two percent (82%) of Democrats want the troops to come home within a year. Seventy-one percent (71%) of Republicans believe the troops should remain until the mission is complete.

As for those not affiliated with either major party, 66% want the troops home within a year. Only 26% take the opposite view and say they should remain.

Rasmussen Reports has been tracking this question weekly since late August. The survey was conducted in partnership with Fox Television Stations, Inc.

An earlier survey found that just 40% of voters want Congress to support the policy outlined by President Bush in an address to the nation earlier this month. Forty-seven percent (47%) should act to force the President to withdraw all troops from Iraq in the near future. The country is also evenly divided on the question of whether the situation in Iraq is like Vietnam.

Another survey found that 39% of Americans now believe the U.S. and its allies are winning the War on Terror. Twenty-eight percent (28%) believe the terrorists are winning.

All questions concerning Iraq reveal stark partisan differences.

Eighty-two percent (82%) of Democrats want the troops to come home within a year. Seventy-one percent (71%) of Republicans believe the troops should remain until the mission is complete.

As for those not affiliated with either major party, 66% want the troops home within a year. Only 26% take the opposite view and say they should remain.

Rasmussen Reports has been tracking this question weekly since late August. The survey was conducted in partnership with Fox Television Stations, Inc.