Absolutely. All the polls that I see, credibility has gone down to well below 50 percent. We have lost credibility in all the periphery. We've lost credibility in Europe. Everybody I talk to, every poll that I see shows the United States with less credibility because of the mistakes that we've made in Iraq.
Murtha discusses the loss of credibility for the U.S. due to the Iraq war.
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