Fifteen years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the American public is divided over whether using military force was the right decision.
Nearly half (48%) of Americans say the decision to use military force was wrong, while slightly fewer (43%) say it was the right decision, according to a Pew Research Center survey, conducted March 7-14 among 1,466 adults. Current opinions about the war in Iraq are little different than in early 2014, when 50% said the decision to use force was wrong and 38% said it was right.
Support for the decision to use military force in Iraq had declined considerably over the course of the war and its aftermath. In late March 2003, a few days after the U.S. invasion, 71% supported the decision to use military force, while just 22% said it was the wrong decision.
Just a year later, the share saying the war in Iraq was the right decision fell to 55%. By the beginning of 2005, opinion about the use of U.S. force was divided (47% right, 47% wrong). Two years later, public opinion about the war had “turned decidedly negative.”
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WNU Editor: The poll results have not changed much since 2005.
4 comments:
By what measure can anyone say the Iraq war was a good idea or success?
But the Iran war, which we're sure to get now that Pres. Mush-head has surrounded himself with Neocon warmongers, TV stars, Israel lobby warmongers, Saudi Lobby warmongers and plain old dips$%t warmongers will surely go much better.
Because the world will stop turning and the sun won't come up the day after.
If the US had just stuck to Afghanistan, how could events have been worse than the last 15 years? The Iraq war, the collapse of sanctions on Iran, the metastasizing of jihadi terrorists, the reintroduction of Russia into the Middle East, Saudi Arabia and other Sunni nations in the fight for their lives, the many 10's of thousands killed including a couple thousand US troops and the uncountable mained are all direct consequences of the Iraq invasion in 2003.
In what world are these good things?
Where is a single benefit from that BIPARTISAN DECISION to go to war?
the bipartisan decision was based on lies about wmd from Bush administration
The lies you spoke started with the Bill Clinton Administration hence the bipartisanship. The historical record is crystal clear on this. Maybe the lies which you speak were in fact lies, maybe they were policy maker mistakes based upon human errors.
Given the terrible misconduct of American national security officials all during the Obama years and the obvious incompetence during the Bush years, I am now leaning towards incompetence in evaluating intelligence in addition to lies.
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