Jeff'ed,

Your question was about "understanding " why we are in Iraq. If people do not understand why we are in Iraq they live under a rock. Only an idiot would say that most people agree with why we are in Iraq. But then again most people are idiots and have little understanding about the issues. So the polls reflect peoples lack of knowledge more than the truth. I would be willing to bet that more people if polled would know more about a top 10 TV show than they would about the reasons Bush gave for the Iraq war. Yet they feel informed enough to oppose or support it. I also doubt that those same people if given a blank map of the region could even point out a single country.