Iraq War protest tomorrow

On the eve of the protests against the Iraq War in Washington D.C. in which organizers hope to draw 100,000 people it seems appropriate to post comments from Steven Kull, the Director of the Program on International Policy Attitudes, that appeared in today's email release from the Institute for Public Accuracy.

He said that:

A fairly strong majority of people in the U.S. now says that the U.S. should not have invaded Iraq, but only about 30 percent say U.S. troops should be withdrawn now. For that to change, a leader would have to step forward and make the case that our efforts to stabilize Iraq cannot succeed and that staying only provokes more conflict. It's more likely to be a moderate Republican since the Democrats are so committed to looking 'strong on national security.' Another contributing factor would be if Americans perceived the Iraqi people as wanting the U.S. to pull out. Interestingly, the International Republican Institute recently stopped publishing its polling data from Iraq. The findings were getting pretty negative toward the U.S. presence there.

I'm surprised that the Director of PIPA would actually take a public position on a controversial issue. I've seen virtually no polling data since January, before the "elections" indicating what Iraqis think of the U.S. presence, surely not incidental.