Our own State Department polls say that 80 percent of Iraqis view the United States as an unpopular occupier.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously.
According to recent opinion polls, a large majority of Iraqis believe that the U.S. military has no intention to leave Iraq, and that it would stay even is asked by the Iraqi government to leave.
Forty-five percent of Iraqi citizens think it is morally okay to attack American troops.
The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.
Obama's very unpopular. I don't need a poll to tell me that.
The United States encouraged Iraqis to rise up after Saddam Hussein's army was driven out of Kuwait. Washington assumed Saddam was weak after losing the 1991 Gulf War. Iraqis rose up, but Saddam's troops killed thousands - Iraqis say tens of thousands - in a counter-offensive.
Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.
It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the Atlantic.
I think the American people have been surprised by the enthusiasm with which the Iraqis have taken to elections and politics.
While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is that in all the polls I've seen the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them.