Ah shoot, wrote a whole reply and lost it. I agree with your approach regarding future war efforts, but funnily enough I thought you were flattening things actually, by focusing on willingness for war. Some people believed that Iraq was involved in terrorism or had dangerous weapons, but opposed war and opted for sanctions, or wanted to wait for UN inspections to wrap up, or thought wars were expensive, or hated a possible draft.

I think looking at like, the amount of people who viewed Saddam as a threat, regardless of the action they planned for, or were "anti-terrorism" and also believed Iraq was tied into it, etc, is more meaningful, I've felt if Twitter was around then we'd have a ton of stuff starting with "Iraq is bad, but"

You also gotta remember the Gulf War is still in a lot people's minds at the time too, so the idea we can win in the ME, as well as the idea Iraq is our enemy, has already been imbedded in people's minds. I like this poll archive link scroll all the way down to the bottom for a fun one if you don't want to read the whole thing. You're right that it's not universal, but a ton of people accepted the premises that lead to the war, and the premises I think are more important to measure