2/3’s Of Americans Don’t Know What Year We Invaded Iraq
These, of course, would be the same people responding to all those polls show low approval of the war.
Nearly two thirds of all Americans do not know in what year US invaded Iraq, and less than half have an idea about the US casualty figures in Iraq, latest Pew Research poll shows.
Only 38% of a nationally representative sample of 1,017 American adults were able to correctly state that US invaded Iraq in 2003, while more than a third of the respondents incorrectly picked the year of the invasion was 2002, while 9% and 4% picked 2004 and 2005 respectively.
Given how woefully ill-informed much of the American public is on Iraq it’s little wonder the agenda-driven media has little trouble manipulating their opinions with it’s endlessly shallow, insipid “car bomb of the day” coverage.
It’s hard to see the bigger picture when you aren’t even paying close enough attention to know the basic details of the issue.
