More Americans Feel Misled On Iraq War (Gallup/CNN/USAT)

[struggle4progress]

(Angus Reid Global Scan) – Adults in the United States remain divided over their government’s rationale to launch military action in Iraq, according to a poll by Gallup released by CNN and USA Today. 50 per cent of respondents believe the Bush administration deliberately misled the American public, a seven per cent increase in a year. <snip>

Polling Data

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

Apr. 2005 Feb. 2004
Yes, deliberately misled 50% 43%
No, did not 48% 54%

All in all, do you think it was worth going to war in Iraq, or not?

Apr. 2005 Feb. 2004
Worth it 45% 48%
Not worth it 53% 50%

Source: Gallup / CNN / USA Today
Methodology: Telephone interviews to 1,040 American adults, conducted on Apr. 1 and Apr. 2, 2005. Margin of error is 4 per cent.

http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewItem&itemID=6674

[rodeodance]

1. this still reflects 45% tooo many sheepies

[saigon68]

7. Right Wing Taliborn again Whack-Jobs

Recruiting a Bunch of Mexicans to fight and die in an oily WAR for Halliburton and The Corporate Bush Criminals.

[Dancing_Dave]

15. Ah, but when Mexicans die you don't have to report

An American casualty, or report anything at all...one reason that the media is fed a list of deaths which is SO much shorter than the number who have REALLY been killed.

Well, our media lied about Iraq, lied about 9/11...and we have no future until we realize that our corporate media do nothing but lie anymore, and we should NEVER let the bogus "news" propaganda distract us from the truth that we can always we find, if we just sort through what's on the web, and what we can learn by talking to direct witnesses of the situations that concern us.

Whether we self-distruct in media induced self-delusion, or existentially work toward the truth that could save us, is entirely our individual responsibility, our own affair.

[leftchick]

19. I did not know that...

God they will do anything to hide the truth. Filthy, greedy bastards.

:grr:

[saigon68]

22. I get my info on the net --- from a variety of sources.

Only SHEEP watch FOX and CNN. I trust NOTHING in the MSM.

[leftchick]

2. poor little sheeples...

I have no pity.Our kids/parents/grandparents are dying for these lies you idiots...

[Griffy]

8. nice tagline... WAR, stops a beating heart! NT

[Jack Rabbit]

3. 45% don't feel Bush misled America into way

How many of them think Saddam actually had WMDs?

[Erika]

5. And as our kids keep on dying

The one thing I've found out is that Bush supporters do NOT want to talk about the Iraqi war, especially those with kids who have chosen not to go to Iraq.

[Theduckno2]

10. I met one person who thought Syria...

was the destination of Saddam's WMD's. Remember Rumsfeld's declaration "Absence of proof is not proof of absence."! It is still nice to see so many people wising up to the Bush-Cheney regime.

[DeepModem Mom]

4. Some eyes, slowly opening -- nt

[meganmonkey]

6. Wow - 50% say it was deliberate

:wow:

I am actually reassured by that. (please don't remind me of the other people :hide: )

[ngGale]

9. Love the way they use lie would be better...n/t

[Voltaire99]

11. Good signs.

If we had a functioning press in this country, perhaps it wouldn't have taken so long and so many casualties for the obvious to soak in.

Perhaps.

The day the US media ceases being a cheerleader for the nation's wars, we'll be able to test the hypothesis that an informed citizenry makes good choices...

[Matriot]

12. So can we impeach him yet???

[Barkley]

13. Higher gas prices are hard to hide.

(Cheap) Oil is what this war was really about.
Oil has gotten more expensive since the war.
While not all of the increase in price can be
attributed to Iraq, Iraq's 'reconstruction' is not
"paying its way'.

[magellan]

14. Good news.

They're starting to tune in to the lies Bush** and the GOP have been selling them. May the return to reason continue.

[NeoConsSuck]

16. And did they come to these new conclusions.

in between commercial breaks for American Idol?

Ignorance is no defense for the genocide committed in Iraq. History is not going to treat the american empire kindly.

[DeepModem Mom]

17. kick

[Frederik]

18. Drip, drip

50% say they were deliberately mislead, 48% say they weren't. That's pretty unique for a president that has just been re-elected, to have half the people accusing him of lying them into war. People are waking up.

[wallwriter]

20. Waitaminnit

Are you suggesting that George Bush didn't tell the truth?! I'm shocked, SHOCKED.

[indepat]

21. How is it possible for anyone to be misled on this issue: these numbers

are astounding.