Washington — The American public is growing more optimistic about the war in Iraq, but seven in 10 say it's too early to tell if the war has been won.
Just more than half, 51 percent, said they thought it was necessary for coalition forces to kill or capture Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in order to win the war, according to a poll released Thursday by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
The number of people who thought the war was going very well reached about six in 10 this week as the public saw pictures of cheering crowds in Baghdad greeting American troops. That number has doubled since late March.
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