Bush's approval rating drops nine points in eighteen days, to 59%, in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, a poll in which he's consistently done quite well (better than in other polls). And

An overwhelming majority of Americans -- 80 percent -- said they fear the United States will become bogged down in a long and costly peacekeeping mission in Iraq, up eight points in less than three weeks.

There's still a general sense that the war was a good idea and that casualties aren't outrageously high yet. Read the results here.