Us Public Confidence On Iraq

Juan Cole 05/21/2005

US Public Confidence on Iraq Plummeting

A new Harris Interactive poll shows that US public confidence in the Iraq venture is falling rapidly.

Question: How confident are you that U.S. policies in Iraq will be successful?

May 2005

Confident: 25%
Not confident: 54%
Not sure: 20%

Mar. 2005

Confident: 30%
Not confident: 49%
Not sure: 21%

Thinking about everything that has happened, do you think that taking military action against Iraq was the right or wrong thing to do?

May 2005

Right thing: 39%
Wrong thing: 48%
Not Sure: 13%

March 2005

Right thing: 41%
Wrong thing: 45%
Not sure: 15%

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page