{"id":4235,"date":"2003-07-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4235"},"modified":"2003-07-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-03T12:00:00","slug":"soft-support-for-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4235","title":{"rendered":"soft support for Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Maryland colleagues at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pipa.org\/\">Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) <\/a>recently released a national survey concerning Americans&#8217; attitudes toward Iraq. I thought these were the highlights:<\/p>\n<p>62 percent of Americans think that the US government was at least somewhat misleading about weapons of mass destruction. But 58 percent still believe that Saddam had wmd&#8217;s before we invaded.<\/p>\n<p>71 percent think that before the war, the US government implied that Saddam was involved in the 9\/11 attacks.<\/p>\n<p>52 percent think that we have found evidence of an Iraq-al Qaeda link, and 23 percent believe that we have found wmd&#8217;s in Iraq. The latter figure has fallen, however, since May.<\/p>\n<p>53 percent think that the post-war process is not going well.<\/p>\n<p>80 percent think we have a responsibility to stay in Iraq and reconstruct the country.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that if no wmd&#8217;s are found, no link to al Qaeda is discovered, and the postwar reconstruction process remains troubled, then public support for the war will likely erode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Maryland colleagues at the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) recently released a national survey concerning Americans&#8217; attitudes toward Iraq. I thought these were the highlights: 62 percent of Americans think that the US government was at least somewhat misleading about weapons of mass destruction. But 58 percent still believe that Saddam had wmd&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq-and-democratic-theory"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}