Do you remember the MSM report that America is split down the middle on Iraq? Me neither.

Surfing the net will lead you to the most interesting things. It all began with a BBC story on the attitudes of Muslim-Americans. Intrigued, I went to the pdf version of the report, which was written by The Pew Research Center. It was there that I discovered Pew had taken a poll on American attitudes in Iraq, including the question of whether or not the liberation of Iraq was the right decision. I was stunned at what I saw.

Nearly every pollster and pundit has insisted the American public have given up on Iraq, and that a majority of Americans think it was a mistake (the last poll I saw that asked the question, in the Washington Post, put the Iraq-War-was-the-right-decision split at 64%-No, 34%-Yes). So you can imagine my surprise when the Pew folks put the numbers at 47-45. Given that the margin of error for the sample size was 3 points; that effectively means the nation is now split on Iraq – a substantial improvement from just a few months ago (as late as February, Pew had the split at 54%-No, 40%-Yes). So over the last few months, support for the war has grown to the point where the anti-war majority vanished.

This is big news, expect for MSM, who has studiously ignored it. I wonder why.