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Americans sometimes feel misled by military - poll

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Americans have become considerably less confident in the information they receive from the military, a sign the Iraq war has heightened public scepticism, the sponsors of a poll released on Wednesday said.

Seventy-seven percent of Americans polled believe the military occasionally misleads the media and 60 percent said they feel they have received too little information to make informed decisions about military matters, according to the McCormick Tribune Foundation/Gallup Poll.

"These results likely reflect Americans' dissatisfaction with the public debate about Iraq before the decision was made to go to war," said Mark Hallett, interim journalism program director, McCormick Tribune Foundation.

"Scepticism among the military, media and public should be expected," he said.