Despite years of polling up until a few weeks ago showing massive American opposition to the war in Iraq, a new poll from Fox News showed a remarkable shift in public opinion which seems to be based on the mistaken belief that the war is now “over.”
The poll shows that 58% of Americans now think the US “did the right thing” in the war, suggesting that there is already of whimsical “alls well that ends well” viewpoint swelling in the opinion of American voters, despite the massive death tolls, unfathomable cost, and fairly major handicap of the war still going on.
Obama Administration officials have been championing the notion that the war is “over” for weeks now, with President Obama giving a high profile speech on Tuesday praising President Bush for starting the war in the first place.
Which may explain why the poll also showed that a small majority of Americans give President Bush credit for the “success” of the war. 50,000 US troops remain in Iraq, as well as tens of thousands of security contractors.
Though violence is somewhat down from its peak in 2006-07, the death toll is soaring in recent months in Iraq, with July serving as the deadliest month in over two years for Iraqi civilians. US military officials on the ground in Iraq predict that the Iraqis will eventually ask the US to stay beyond the supposedly “firm” December 2011 deadline for leaving the country.
Why wouldn't Americans buy the latest B.S? They bought the WMD B.S. They bought the Tonkin Gulf "attack", Pearl Harbor, the Wellington house propaganda and the B.S. about the Maine. This is the country that invented yellow journalism.
We have been buying the BS since the day it started. We also love being taken advantage of.
A FOX Poll is always suspect! I have never supported either war or the president who started it!
Our military seems to be self perpetuating and needs a war going on to exist and get the big bucks. It is out of control and needs to be stopped!
A vast majority of Americans questioned believed the first sentences of the Declaration of Independence were penned by Karl Marx. That was thirty years ago. Americans elected George W. Bush on the premise that this scion of New England oligarchs was a "good old boy" from Texas who was a representative of average white Americans. They believe that God loves their country more than others. In short Americans will believe anything including Obama being a Muslim.
American Proles will swallow anything/
Kind of like the little towns having parades for the dead. Eases their guilty conscious.
Why do you think that all government from the local to the federal talk about "educating" the people.. yet they have no money when it comes to "educating them"… in the other hand they can and have and will cut the poor’s medical or Medicare or their Social Security and rise the senior citizens buss fare with 50C or more and call it "saving money for the state". This is a true "democracy" or if you will "Liberalism" in not knowing what a hell they are doing and why. But when it comes to create jobs they have no idea what a job and being unemployed means…, simply because they never worked in their life they been a “professional politicians” like Barbara Boxer.
I wonder what Edward Bernays would make of this?
The hazards of outsourcing war to corporate amerika. After they've been bled dry the poor fish will come screaming to the gov't demanding they do something. Appropriate hearings will be held, brows will be beaten and harsh words spoken. Serious Laws will be enacted that turn out to actually strengthen rather than weaken the corporate stranglehold. Then the moment will pass and some shiny new thing will appear on the near horizon and, all forgotten, it's off to the war again!