The Quagmire Turns 4
It has now been four years since the United States invaded Iraq and, according to the latest CNN poll, only 30 percent of Americans are "proud" of the war -- half the number recorded in 2003. Still -- with thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed; hundreds of billions of dollars spent, stolen and wasted; millions of refugees created; terrorist recruitment thriving and a civil war that threatens to engulf the region -- we just have to ask: What could anyone possibly be proud of?
It has now been four years since the United States invaded Iraq and, according to the latest CNN poll, only 30 percent of Americans are “proud” of the war — half the number recorded in 2003. Still — with thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed; hundreds of billions of dollars spent, stolen and wasted; millions of refugees created; terrorist recruitment thriving and a civil war that threatens to engulf the region — we just have to ask: What could anyone possibly be proud of?
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Americans are starkly less confident and proud of their country’s involvement in Iraq, according to poll results released Sunday.
However, the poll — results of which were released on the eve of the Iraq war’s four-year anniversary — also indicated that Americans are no more worried about the conflict than they were when it began in March 2003.
The CNN poll of 1,027 adults was conducted March 9-11 by Opinion Research Corp. The sampling error for the poll is plus or minus 3 percentage points.
According to the results, 35 percent of Americans are confident about the war, the poll said. When the war began, 83 percent of Americans expressed confidence in the campaign.
Similarly, 30 percent of those polled this month said they were proud of the war, as opposed to 65 percent who expressed that sentiment in 2003.
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