Pak Sahafat – 20 years after the US invasion of Iraq, most Americans believe that the war was a mistake.
According to the report of the International group of Pak Sahafat news agency and quoted by Rashatudi, The results of a survey twenty years after the US invasion of Iraq show that the American public’s opinion about this war has reversed and most of them believe that this action has reduced the security of the US.
Two decades after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, most Americans agree that the war was a mistake, according to a poll by Axios and Opsos released this week.
While two-thirds of Americans approved of military action in 2003, 61 percent now believe it was the wrong decision.
When the US ground invasion of Iraq began on March 20, 2003, only 26 percent of US respondents to a Pew poll opposed military action to topple Saddam Hussein’s government. This support varied greatly by respondents’ political affiliation, with 83% of Republicans favoring the invasion compared to 52% of Democrats.
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That divide persists two decades later, with a much smaller majority of Republicans (58%) still insisting the US had the right to invade Iraq. However, only 26% of Democrats still think it was a good idea.
A majority of Americans (67%) do not believe that the war in Iraq has made America safer, according to an Epsom poll of 1, 18 Americans over the age of 18 last week.
However, about three-quarters of Americans said they want America to remain a “world leader,” and 54 percent believe Washington’s overall focus on national defense and homeland security over the past two decades has made America safer. Much of the initial support for the war was based on false claims by the administration of then-President George W. Bush and the media, which published fabricated claims about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. While the Bush administration never directly told Americans that Saddam Hussein was involved in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, 57 percent of respondents to a 2003 Pew poll did so. About 44 percent of respondents still aren’t sure who was right about the war — those who fully supported it, those who opposed it from the start, or those who eventually changed their minds.
Today’s Iraq is a far cry from the democratic paradise its people were promised when Bush declared “mission accomplished” in 2003.
According to the Iraq Body Count (IBC) project (a web-based program to record civilian deaths resulting from the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq), the invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq killed at least 210 Thousands became civilians. After this war, Iraq, which was plunged into instability, became a fertile ground for jihadism, and many northern areas of Iraq came under the control of the terrorists of the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) after the partial withdrawal of the United States in 2011. Years after the Iraqi government ordered the withdrawal of American forces, about 2,500 American troops are still stationed there.
According to Pentagon data from 2019, the total number of American military casualties in the entire Iraq war has reached 4,487.