enhanced_deficit
02-20-2014, 12:33 AM
Is it susrprising that neocons' plant took a "good war" and surged turned it into a "mistake"?
February 19, 2014, 08:28 am
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For the first time since the war began in 2001, nearly 50 percent of the public said the war was a mistake, according to the poll released on Wednesday.
By contrast, 48 percent said the war was not a mistake.
About two months after the invasion, Gallup found fewer than 1-in-10 people said the war was a mistake — the most positive rating the public has given a war since the Korean War in 1950.
Nearly two-thirds of Republicans and independents who lean that way said the war was not a mistake. The poll found 59 percent of Democrats and those who lean that way said the war was a mistake.
Gallup conducted the poll Feb. 6-9 and has been asking the “mistake” question during every American war since 1950.
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/army/198682-poll-more-people-say-war-in-afghanistan-was-a-mistake (http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/army/198682-poll-more-people-say-war-in-afghanistan-was-a-mistake#ixzz2tqDjuSUE)
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