A new survey of the 100-member board of the National Association of Evangelicals finds most of these evangelical leaders think U.S. military forces need to remain in Iraq “until the job is done.” Asked “What are your views on the war in Iraq?”, even those who think invading Iraq was a mistake say the troops should not leave now.

NAE President Leith Anderson noted that evangelicals, in general, remain divided about whether war is ever justified. “Most evangelicals in America subscribe to the theological position called ‘Just War Theory,’ that it is morally justifiable to go to war under certain conditions,” he said. “However, there is also a strong evangelical voice in the ‘Peace Church’ tradition that opposes all war.”