Only 18% of US voters Believe Bush:

"A CNN/Gallup poll found six out of 10 people believed that Monday's hasty handover - at a moment when Iraq remained so perilous - was a sign of failure. Just a third regarded it as a sign of success.

Major questions still remain about Bush's handling of the war, challenging his image of straight-dealing and plain talking.

Of those polled by the New York Times and CBS, 59 percent said Bush was hiding something in his public statements on Iraq, compared to 18 percent who thought he was telling the full truth.

A further 20 percent considered the president was 'mostly lying'.

By a more than three to one margin, Americans think the risk of terrorist attacks against the US has increased, rather than decreased, as a result of the March 2003 invasion - flatly contradicting Bush's assertions that the removal of Saddam Hussein had made the world a safer place.

By a similar margin, they say the US involvement in Iraq is breeding, not eliminating, terrorists."