http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/05/29/gis-in-iraq-no-longer-true-believers/

GIs In Iraq No Longer True Believers
By: Nicole Belle on Tuesday, May 29th, 2007 at 1:04 PM - PDT  

   'What are we doing here? Why are we still here?' " said (Staff
Sergeant David) Safstrom, a member of Delta Company of the 1st
Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry, 82nd Airborne Division. "We're
helping guys that are trying to kill us. We help them in the day. They
turn around at night and try to kill us."

   His views are echoed by most of his fellow soldiers in Delta
Company, renowned for its aggressiveness.

   A small minority of Delta Company soldiers - the younger, more
recent enlistees in particular - seem to still wholeheartedly support
the war. Others are ambivalent, torn between fear of losing more
friends in battle, longing for their families and a desire to complete
their mission.

   With few reliable surveys of soldiers' attitudes, it is impossible
to simply extrapolate from the small number of soldiers in Delta
Company. But in interviews with more than a dozen soldiers over a
one-week period, most said they were disillusioned by repeated
deployments, by what they saw as the abysmal performance of Iraqi
security forces and by a conflict that they considered a civil war,
one they had no ability to stop.  Read on…

Steve blogged about this yesterday, but it's just snowballing.  When
the troops are quoted questioning the wisdom of 'staying the course',
you know that this is just the tip of the iceberg.