NYT: Polls recover from Powell speech

[Doug Henwood]

Curiously, this poll shows more people disapproving of Bush's foreign 
policy than approving. Since the war is the centerpiece of his 
foreign policy, what does this mean? I suspect there's a lot of 
confusion and thinly held opinion around Iraq - people have been 
propagandized into thinking Iraq is a problem but don't know what 
exactly that means or what to do about it. And of course, direct 
questions always excite the patriotic reflex to support the troops. 
But the broad aggressively imperialist posture doesn't seem to have 
passionate popular support.

Doug