[The war in Iraq is] the top voter issue just over two weeks ahead of elections, nearly two in three Americans (65 percent) say the United States is losing the battle to establish security and democracy there, a poll showed.
Fifty-four percent of those surveyed in the latest Newsweek poll believed that
President George W. Bush had made the wrong decision in invading Iraq in 2003, while 39 percent thought he had made the right decision.
[Source: AFP]
Unfortunately too many of that 54% are probably reaching their conclusion for the wrong reasons. The war was not wrong because it has turned out badly. That, I believe, is what has driven the 'decision was wrong' number into a majority.
The war was wrong because it was morally/ethically/politically unjustified, based upon poor information and misinformation.
I'm afraid that this survey result has done nothing to mitigate my earlier argument that there is a general failure in the US to see a moral issue as a moral issue, and to be sufficiently introspective to recognize that a serious mistake in moral judgment has been made.
GP
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