History: Cheney On Two-Thirds Of The American Public Opposing The Iraq War: ‘So?!!!!!’

[Ichingcarpenter]

Cheney On Two-Thirds Of The American Public Opposing The Iraq War: ‘So?’


2008

This morning, on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion, ABC’s Good Morning America aired an interview with Vice President Cheney on the war. During the segment, Cheney flatly told White House correspondent Martha Raddatz that he doesn’t care about the American public’s views on the war:


CHENEY: On the security front, I think there’s a general consensus that we’ve made major progress, that the surge has worked. That’s been a major success.



RADDATZ: Two-third of Americans say it’s not worth fighting.



CHENEY: So?


RADDATZ So? You don’t care what the American people think?


CHENEY: No. I think you cannot be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls.


http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2008/03/19/20558/cheney-poll-iraq/


Ah.... memory lane and the rabbit hole

[JoePhilly]

1. And around 75-80% supported it originally.

I'm not sure that polls are a great way to govern, regardless of whether we agree or disagree at any given moment.

[leveymg]

2. That was in 2008. Support was considerably higher in early 2003: about 50%

Public support today is not nearly that high for US military intervention in Syria:

The United States public's opinion of the invasion of Iraq has changed significantly since the years preceding the incursion. For various reasons, mostly related to the unexpected consequences of the invasion, as well as misinformation provided by US authorities, the US public’s perspective on its government’s choice to initiate an offensive is increasingly negative. Before the invasion in March 2003, polls showed 47-60% of the US public supported an invasion, dependent on U.N. approval.[1] According to the same poll retaken in April 2007, 58% of the participants stated that the initial attack was a mistake.[2] In May 2007, the New York Times and CBS News released similar results of a poll in which 61% of participants believed the U.S. "should have stayed out" of Iraq.[3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_opinion_in_the_United_States_on_the_invasion_of_Iraq

[jsr]

3. That's how you become a resolute president.