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Facing South:
October 20, 2006 |
In the polling data by the Institute for Southern Studies, if a voter sees the Iraq situation as a civil war, the voter tends to see the war as already lost for the United States. And the voter, conservative in many cases, who sees that war as a civil war tends to develop an opposition to the war, and to those who have promoted it.
The strong suggestion in this data is that politicians on the progressive side should focus on clarifying for voters that the situation is, in fact, a civil war. Excerpt:
Facing South: “Civil war” in Iraq key to public perceptions
…In fact, some analysts see the situation as much worse than a civil war. As former State Department official and Center for American Progress fellow Brian Katulis argues, there are actually four major internal conflicts brewing in Iraq: (1) A Shiite-Sunni civil war in Bahdad and the central part of Iraq; (2) Intra-Shiite conflict in the South; (3) a Sunni Arab insurgency in the West; and (4) Arab-Kurdish violence in the North.
The poll data strongly suggests that if the public heard more about the reality of these conflicts in Iraq, support for the war would drop even further.
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