US Public Confidence on Iraq Plummeting

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US Public Confidence on Iraq Plummeting

A new Harris Interactive poll* shows that US public confidence in the Iraq venture is falling rapidly.

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

                                Mar. 2005       May 2005

Confident:             30%                 25%
Not confident:      49%                 54%
Not sure:               21%                 20%


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

                                Mar. 2005       May 2005

Right thing:           41%                 39%
Wrong thing:        45%                 48%
Not sure:               15%                 13%


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* http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewItem&itemID=7302


Posted by Juan Cole
Informed Comment
May 21, 2005