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The American public’s opinion of the invasion of Iraq has changed significantly since the years preceding the incursion..

An early 2007 ( BEFORE the SURGE ) USA Today/Gallup Poll indicated that 75% of Americans felt the U.S. did not make a mistake in sending troops to Iraq in March 2003…

However, according to the same poll retaken in April 2007, 58% of the participants stated that the initial attack was a mistake. ( So essentially we have TWO polls by the SAME pollster (( but with DIFFERENT People )) stating EXACT opposite things )…

In May, 2007, the New York Times and CBS News released similar results of a poll in which 61% of participants believed the U.S. "should have stayed out" of Iraq…

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THOSE numbers supporting the war have consistantly risen SINCE the SUCCESSES of the Surge have become SOMEWHAT Public Knowlege..Interresting enough,, it SEEMS that the attempts to SLANDER Petreas had BACKFIRED for the Democrats..

HERE is just an example of some other polls taken about the War..I make NO claim that they are representative of what the American People want or think as THEY do..I make NO claims that they are EVEN representative of the AVERAGE poll..I JUST present them as a CAREFULLY chosen list to make my point..OTHERS can come up with other polls to make THEIR points and they can do it very easilly..

So WHY am I doing this??

WHAT is my POINT???

Bear with me..YOU SHALL SEE in a moment.....

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February 2001

Seven months prior to the September 11 attacks a Gallup poll showed that 52% would favor an invasion of Iraq while 42% would oppose it.

January 2003

An early January 2003 poll showed rapidly decreasing support for an invasion, although there was still more public support than there was prior to the "Gulf War" a decade ago.

Approximately 2 out of 3 respondents wanted the government to wait ( WAIT,,NOT abandon Invasion plans ) for the UN inspections to end, and only 31% supported using military force immediately. Interestingly, this same poll showed that a majority of Americans believed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, but did not expect UN inspectors to find them.. ( SO one can reasonably conclude that those SAME 2 out of 3 who wanted to WAIT believed that War was inevitable and they were NOT opposed to it ONCE their conditions were met..…IMO…)

Some polls showed that Bush's 2003 State of the Union increased US support for the invasion, but other polls showed that it had little effect.

Most polls showed that support for the invasion, depending on how the question is phrased, was at between 55-65% (58% according to CNN/USA Today, 57% according to the LA Times, and 67% according to Fox"

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Now,, I’m NOT a big fan of polls,, they are at their BEST when done HONESTLY but THAT is RARE,, They are at BEST merely an Indication of what’s going on in the hearts and minds of the American People and more OFTEN then NOT the CONCLUSIONS have proven themselves to be Totally and Completely unreliable..

The Polls themselves are SUBJECT to the biasness of the questions,, the SELECTION of those being Polled,, the motivation and agenda of the Pollster and OFTEN the carefully chosen News coming from the MSM..The CONCLUSIONS are Subject to interpretations which are ALSO based on these factors..And they CHANGE every DAY,,,OFTEN dramatically..

ONE can find a POLL whose interpreted conclusions support ANY position without a WHOLE lot of trouble..JUST as ONE can make ANY poll say whatever they want it to say by JUST asking the Questions JUST so..

They DID JUST that with the Illegal Invader Amnesty bill..They tried to CONVINCE us that 80% of ALL Americans SUPPORTED their Amnesty Bill based on a POLL that asked the simple question;;

"Are YOU against Immigration?" ( Presumably,,LEGAL or otherwise)

They EVEN knew the KINDS of people that would be opposed to their bill...

IGNORANT RACISTS…..

SO you SEE, trusting the POLL is merely a matter of HOW much you can Trust the POLLSTER..

However,, taken as a whole,,ONE may extrapolate SOME conclusions based on these samples…

There are MANY claims being made by SOME who are in NO position whatsoever to make their claims and present their opinions as FACT when it IS in Fact,, MERELY their opinions..

BUT despite their claims,,

There has NEVER been a TIME when the VAST majority of Americans were against the War on Terror and FEW times when Americans were against the War against SADDAM and of THOSE,, NEVER has that opposition risen to the level of 70 or 80 persent..

The VAST Majority of Americans have NEVER been opposed to EITHER the War against Terror OR the War against Saddam NOR have the Majority of Americans EVER had ANY trouble in telling the difference between the two…It SEEMS that ONLY those opposed to the War have THAT difficulty...And they are PERSISTANT in trying to CONFUSE the two...

Opinions Fluctuate between approval and disapproval based on a variety of factors.. ( Mostly on whether it’s GOOD News or Bad News coming out of Iraq and Afghanistan ) and SOMETIMES this has resulted in a temporary DIP below the 50% mark in the approval ratings but by FAR,,MORE Americans have CONSISTANTLY SUPPORTED the War over the long run then those who opposed it..

THEY don't like War..ONLY a MADMAN would WANT war but they ALSO see the necessity of this war and they NEVER forget WHO the enemy is despite the efforts of the left..They want to get out SURE,,, but as WINNERS,, NOT with our tails tucked between our legs..

Here’s another thing about these Polls,,ONE in Particular,,

PAY ATTENTION to THIS BECAUSE THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT POINT that I’m making here!!!!!!!

I found it interresting to NOTE,, for instance,, the Gallop poll of February of 2001 that shows,, QUITE CLEARLY,, that less then ONE month AFTER George W.Bush was inaugurated and SEVEN months BEFORE the attacks of 9/11,,

52% OF ALL AMERICANS WOULD FAVOR AN INVASION OF IRAQ…

Now LOOK,,YOU can question or EVEN debate the accuracy of the FIGURES of this Poll but you CANNOT question the TIMING or the SUBJECT of this Poll..

THIS seems to fly in the FACE of the WELL Publicized and incessantly repeated LIE that Ole George managed to CONVINCE a STUPID America to go for the Invasion of Iraq by associating it to the attacks of 9/11..

HOW could he have DONE this if that HADN’T EVEN HAPPENED YET???

So,,The BIG lie about George W. Bush's BIG lie is in Fact and QUITE clearly PROVEN by the very EXISTANCE of THIS poll,,,,,,a BIG LIE….

And ALL this talk about a "CONFUSED" America that you keep hearing about OVER and OVER again on thiese boards is LIKEWISE,,,,a BIG Lie...

So,,in conclusion,,the NEXT time you hear,,on these boards or anywhere else what it IS that these self-appointed spokesmen for ALL of America says is what the VAST Majority of Americans WANT or do NOT want,, Consider the SOURCE and consider THEIR source..It is MOST likely coming from SOME poll carefully calculated and manipulated to say EXACTLY that……