WASHINGTON, Oct 25: For the first time, a majority of Americans believe the Iraq invasion was the ‘wrong thing to do’, according to a poll published on Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal.

Fifty-three per cent of those asked in the Harris Interactive survey felt that ‘taking military action against Iraq was the... wrong thing to do’, against 34 per cent who thought it was correct, the newspaper said.

The percentage of people opposing the US-led invasion of the country in March 2003 was up from a figure of 49 per cent in a parallel poll last month, rising above 50 per cent for the first time since the surveys began.

A year before, in September last year, both sides were even at 43 per cent.

The latest poll also found that 66 per cent of Americans believed President George Bush was doing a ‘poor’ or ‘only fair’ job of handling Iraq, against 32 per cent who deemed it ‘excellent’ or ‘pretty good’.

Forty-four per cent of those polled said the situation for US troops in Iraq was getting worse, compared to 19 per cent who thought it was improving.—AFP