Public majority wants Australian troops withdraw from Afghanistan: survey

In most people want the withdrawal of Australian troops in Afghanistan, Australia's fourth death, in the past two weeks.

Seventy respondents were Yahoo7 online survey have said they want from the withdrawal of a decade of war.

This is the second that Rowan Robinson Combat Engineer Sapper destroyed in an operation Monday night in a huge arsenal Helmund province declared dead.

His death has taken in Afghanistan since 2001 the number of killed 27 Australians. Robinson is the fourth Australian soldier killed in the past two weeks.

In response to the poll, Defense Minister Stephen Smith said he was not surprised, but he insisted that the efforts in Afghanistan will continue until 2014.

"This is not surprising, the terrible two weeks, we have to face the tragic death of my four,"he said in Belgium, where he met with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) defense ministers in Brussels on Wednesday Seven Network.

"In this regard one would question why we are there. "

Smith said the Australian troops before the end of 2014 is likely to remain in Afghanistan, he expects more deaths.

"We must steel themselves more, but we are on track to hand over the security responsibilities to Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police and local by the end of 2014, " he said.

"We do not want to always be there, we want to go out.

"This is what we have in Afghanistan a long period of time and my own analysis of the situation is ... Our position is that, now we are six or seven years too late position. "

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said earlier that Australian troops in Afghanistan face an uphill task, especially since they entered the local fighting season, but she was sure the country, Australians were not fighting the "endless war. "

Australia currently has about 1,500 troops in the southern Uruzgan province basis.

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