[Peace-discuss] What Americans really think

[C. G. Estabrook]

  My wife dug up an account of the poll that the NYT was so surreptitiously 
reporting.

The whole thing makes interesting reading:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/08/26/politics/main6808860.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody



On 8/29/10 9:36 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> The NY Times' advertisements for war (misnamed "News" and "Opinion") include 
> one overwhelming fact about Americans' opinions.  Buried in the jump from the 
> "Week in Review" article about (one aspect of ) the US war in the Mideast - 
> and thoroughly cushioned by persiflage - it is revealed that
>
> "In a CBS News poll last week ... 59  percent said that the United States did 
> not do the right thing going to war in Iraq in the first place and 72 percent 
> said that the war was not worth the loss of life and other costs to the 
> country..."!
>
> These numbers are all the more remarkable because these opinions are simply 
> not heard anywhere in the US media.  But people are not fools, in spite of the 
> force of government and media propaganda.
>
> By the late 1960's, 70 percent of Americans regarded the war in Vietnam as 
> "fundamentally wrong and immoral," /not "a mistake/"  - but that was with  a 
> vigorous antiwar movement and hence a higher level of political discussion in 
> the media.
>
>
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