Jeff Duncan: “Yesterday the biggest news story concerned a car bombing in Baghdad which killed 13 people. Almost all major news…”

“Yesterday the biggest news story concerned a car bombing in Baghdad which killed 13 people. Almost all major news outlets reported that immediately following this bombing there was a large anti-American demonstration by Iraqi citizens. They somehow were blaming the bombing on the U.S. and they burned an American flag. A few weeks ago, just before the release of the Iraqi prison pictures, CNN released a poll of 3,000 Iraqis. That poll found that only 19 percent of the people of Iraq view us as liberators, while more than 70 percent viewed us as occupiers. CNN found that 78 percent of Iraqis had an unfavorable view of the U.S. Even worse, at about that same time in another poll taken before the release the prison pictures, the survey found that 82 percent of Iraqis had an unfavorable view of the U.S. This poll was taken by the Coalition Provisional Authority, our own government. In other words, our own poll. It said 82 percent of Iraqis had a bad opinion of the U.S. This is a country, Mr. Speaker, where we have spent almost $200 billion in the last couple of years.”