Majority in U.S. Feels Misled on Iraq War

[struggle4progress]

<snip> Polling Data

Do you think the Bush administration deliberately misled the American public about whether Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, or not?

Jul. 2005 Jul. 2004 Jul. 2003

Yes, deliberately misled 51% 45% 39%
No, did not 47% 52% 58%
No opinion 2% 2% 3%

Source: Gallup / CNN / USA Today
Methodology: Telephone interviews to 1,006 American adults, conducted from Jul. 22 to Jul. 24, 2005. Margin of error is 3 per cent.

http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/8285


Fewer Americans Confident on Iraq Success

<snip> Polling Data

How confident are you that U.S. policies in Iraq will be successful?

Jul. 2005 May 2005 Mar. 2005

Confident 23% 25% 30%
Not confident 59% 54% 49%
Not sure 19% 20% 21%

Thinking about everything that has happened, do you think that taking military action against Iraq was the right or wrong thing to do?

Jul. 2005 May 2005 Mar. 2005

Right thing 38% 39% 41%
Wrong thing 49% 48% 45%
Not sure 14% 13% 15%

Source: Harris Interactive
Methodology: Online interviews with 2,339 American adults, conducted from Jul. 12 to Jul. 18, 2005. Margin of error is 3 per cent.

http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/8281

[Skittles]

1. most of them are only feeling bad because the war is going badly

if it was going "well" they could not care less how we got there......damn, too many Americans just don't get it

[struggle4progress]

2. IMHO, wars as a general rule go badly and tend not to confirm ..

.. the inevitably rosy predictions made by the armchair pro-war crowd before the start of major combat operations ...

[Jack Rabbit]

3. But Skittles, according to the right wingers I talk to, we're winning

Yep, that what's they say.