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"Article evaluation"

"Popular Opinion in the United States on the Invasion of the Iraq War"
 * 1) Yes, primarily this article relates to the American public's support or opposition to our involvement in Iraq.
 * 2) This article is primarily neutral but it mostly focusses on and evaluates the polls that disapprove the involvement in the Iraq War. Though it does not give personal opinions it does discuss the negative polls with much for detail. For example under the initial invasion of Iraq it cited a poll that said that  "54% of Americans favored a U.S. invasion" but then right after contradicted this statement by saying the public opinion almost immediately dropped after this poll was taken. Though the author of this article does not state that the Iraq War was bad, most of its analysis revolves around the information that does show American opinions as being negative.
 * 3) The view point that the American public increasingly, overtime, felt as if we never should have entered the war is mentioned several times. This article does not reference, or go into detail about, the ample amount support for the invasion of Iraq post 9/11.
 * 4) At the top of the article there is a warning stating that "this article needs additional citations for verification", posted in 2011. Additionally I clicked on one "citation" and it was cited as just "Public Opinion", I clicked on the link that was given and it brought me to a page the is no longer available.
 * 5) For many of the references and sources that I selected many of them said that they were no longer available. Others, had biased titles such as "Poll: Approval for Iraq handling drops to new low". In which the author uses negative polls to influence the audience that overtime American support dramatically increased. Though several of the sources were from reliable Newspapers or poll websites many were unavailable or focussed on negative opinions of the Iraq War.
 * 6) The timeline is general and broad but accurate. I believe that, despite this, more information should have been included under the section of 9/11 to inform readers of what occurred and why the Bush administration looked to invade Iraq in the first place. We cannot assume that everyone reading this would know the details about 9/11, especially younger people or foreigners.
 * 7) There were no talk discussions on this page.
 * 8) This page was not rated well because there were several suggestions given by wikipedia to improve it.
 * 9) We talk about how the opinion of the Iraq war changed over time but we also talk about the drivers behind this opinion changes.The article referenced the change of opinion when it came to weapons of mass destruction but ultimately the argument and information is invalid because the poll sources were invalid.

My Bib/ Sources for the project:

Works Cited

Adam J. Bernisky and James N. Druckman.“Public Opinion Research and Support for

the Iraq War”.Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. 71, No. 1, Spring 2007, pp. 126–141.

Craighill, Peyton M. “Public Opinion Is Settled as Iraq War Concludes.” The Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2011.

Core, Kevin. “Television News, Public Opinion, and the Iraq War: Do Wartime

Rationales Matter?”

Dugan, Andrew. “Fewer in U.S. View Iraq, Afghanistan Wars as Mistakes.” Gallup News, Gallup, 12 June 2015.

Dugan, Andrew. “On 10th Anniversary, 53% in U.S. See Iraq War as Mistake.” Gallup News, Gallup, 18 Mar. 2013.

Dutton, Sarah, et al. “Most Americans Say Iraq War Wasn’t worth the Costs: Poll.” CBS News, 23 June 2014.

Saad, Lydia. “Top Ten Findings About Public Opinion and Iraq.” Gallup News, Gallup, 8 Oct. 2002.

Smith, Caroline, and James M. Lindsey. “Rally ‘Round the Flag: Opinion in the United States before and after the Iraq War.” Brookings, 2 June 2003.

Week 7 Assignment

Current Outline, Improving an article

“Popular opinion in the United States on the invasion of Iraq”

* We could rename this article...

Introduction- * We could improve the introduction by briefly outlining the changes that may have caused the shift in public opinion… but we will not make any statements without supporting it with polling data.
 * Talks about how American Opinion changed over time.
 * Starts by stating that public opinion was based on...“the unexpected consequences of the invasion, as well as misinformation provided by US authorities”.

Timeline-

* Our primary goal is to condense this timeline into general turning points.

March 1992 * We can add a small section on the Gulf War and American opinion on this because it does impact PO going into Iraq.
 * The source given in this section is not credible so we will remove this fact.

February 2001 * Combine this section with the information on the Gulf War and pre 9/11 sentiment.
 * Opinion prior to 9/11

October 2002 * If we want to include information about a sub group like this it can be incorporated into a larger section.
 * Fact about Evangelical support. The source is not credible.

January 2003 * This type of section will be good for us to have. It is the time in between 9/11 and the invasion but our sources and facts have to be reliable.
 * Leading up to the invasion of Iraq.

February 2003 * This can be incorporated into the section above.
 * Discusses the split in the American public as some supported the invasion and some protests just as the United States was on the brink of invasion.

May 2003 August 2004 September 2004 November 2004 May 2005
 * Too Vague
 * Too Vague
 * Too Vague
 * Too Vague

The source cited in this section is from an old, seemingly unreliable source-- most of the links on the website do not work, and it is inactive as of now.

June 2005

This is the first section under the headline “The Change” but there is no information about why there was a change at all. “The Change” should be its own section-- not just highlighting the difference in poll but also explaining why the American opinion shifted over time in detail. How did it go from 74% having confidence in their military to 60% not believing the war should happen at all? The way this is presented shows an oversimplified version of the truth, and it makes it seem as if all of public opinion shifted in one month.

* This whole section could be better stated with a graph or some kind of visual of the public opinion change

July 2005

The link for this does not lead to any information that pertains to the article.

April 2006

Calls back to the “mission accomplished” speech but makes no mention of it before. It could be useful to explain why this speech was significant in affecting public opinion about the war.

July 2006

Not enough information provided, and not enough to actually show how public opinion changed over time.

September 2006

Unhelpful information-- just the same repetition of a single statistic for each month. No further information on why these opinions are what they are.

October 2006

Same repetition of statistics with no context or meaning

November 2006

Same repetition of statistics with no context or meaning

December 2006

Same repetition of statistics with no context or meaning

January 2007

Same repetition of statistics with no context or meaning

May 2007

Same repetition of statistics with no context or meaning

August 2007

Same repetition of statistics with no context or meaning

September 2007

Same repetition of statistics with no context or meaning

December 2008

Same repetition of statistics with no context or meaning

Our possible outline- References-
 * 1) Background information and PO with the Gulf War.
 * 2) PO between 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq.
 * 3) PO early in the Iraq war.
 * 4) Major turning points and changes in opinion.
 * 5) We will also add visual representations and graphs.

* All of the sources that are * are non-credible sources.These are sources we will have to remove or update.

*  "USATODAY.com - Poll: Most back war, but want U.N. support".

* ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "PollingReport.com Iraq Polls". Retrieved 2007-09-18.

- Jump up ^ "Poll Shows View of Iraq War Is Most Negative Since Start". The New York Times. 25 May 2007.

- ^ Jump up to: a b Inc., Gallup,. "Iraq".

* Jump up ^ Public Opinion P. 130.

* Jump up ^ "Wikisource of Land Letter". Retrieved 2007-09-18.

- Jump up ^ "Poll: Talk First, Fight Later".

- Jump up ^ "MSNBC — Breaking News, Top Stories, & Show Clips".

- This is a credible source but the article itself needs to be located.

- Jump up ^ Milbank, Dana; VandeHei, Jim (2003-05-17). "Washington Post May 1, 2003 Gallup poll". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2007-05-31.

- Credible but the article needs to be linked.

* Jump up ^ http://www.washingtontimes.com, The Washington Times. "This story is no longer available - Washington Times".

* Jump up ^ Isenberg, David (2003-10-02). "US wounded in the shadows". Asia Times. Retrieved 2007-09-18.

* Jump up ^ Vick, Carl (2004-09-05). "U.S. Troops in Iraq See Highest Injury Toll Yet". Washington Post. Retrieved 2007-09-18.

- Jump up ^ Roberts, Joel (2009-02-11). "Poll: Fading Support For Iraq War". CBS News. Retrieved 2012-07-08.

* Jump up ^ "Military Tops Public Confidence List in New Gallup Poll". Archived from the original on 2007-05-14. Retrieved 2007-05-31.

* Jump up ^ Dana Milbank and Claudia Deane (8 June 2005). "Poll Finds Dimmer View of Iraq War, 52% Say U.S. Has Not Become Safer". The Washington Post. Retrieved 5 March 2009.

- Jump up ^ Scahill, Allison (2005-07-01). "Church leaders call on U.S. to change Iraq policy, end war". UMC.org. Retrieved 2007-09-17.

- Not sure about this one. This leads you to the page for the United Methodist Church, but the opinion poll cannot be found.

- Jump up ^ "Poll: Approval for Iraq handling drops to new low". CNN. Retrieved 2007-05-31.

- Jump up ^ "Poll: High Hopes For New Congress". CBS News. 2007-01-04. Retrieved 2007-05-31.

- Jump up ^ "Iraq". Gallup News. Gallup. Retrieved 29 September 2017.

* Jump up ^ "Iraq".