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New survey shows that majority of Americans blame Bush for situation in Iraq, and that he was wrong to take us there in the first place.

Courtesy of TPM:

Republicans have hammered President Obama in recent weeks for the unraveling security situation in Iraq, arguing that he should have left some American troops behind in the troubled country. But a poll released Monday found that Americans widely disagree with the GOP.

The latest national survey from Quinnipiac University showed that 58 percent of American voters believe Obama's decision to withdraw troops in 2011 was the right thing to do.

Conversely, 61 percent said that George W. Bush's decision to invade in 2003 was the wrong thing to do. Fifty-one percent of voters blame Bush for the current calamity in Iraq.

I find that only 51% of Americans think the current Iraq situation is Bush's fault to be troubling since he is the reason we were there in the first place and also brokered the deal for our withdraw.

It is clearly 100% his fault and anybody who does not know that is probably too stupid to understand the questions in this survey.

And further evidence of that fact is that 39% thought that Bush did a better job at conducting foreign policy than Obama who got 35%.

On the other hand 51% of the respondents said that we should NOT send troops into Iraq to defeat Islamic militants, as opposed to 39% who think we should.

There were also some gun control questions in this poll whihc showed that 50% of the respondents thought that there should be stricter gun control laws, to 47% opposed. And a full 92% who believe that ALL gun owners should be subjected to a background check.

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