According To ABC’s Wright, 100 Percent of Anbar Iraqis Oppose Troop Surge

Published: September 10, 2007, 12:46 pm

Tags: congress, iraq, david petraeus, david wright, saddam hussein, good morning america, world news tonight

On Monday's "Good Morning America," correspondent David Wright highlighted an ABC poll which claims a "stunning" 100 percent of Iraqis in Baghdad and Anbar Province view the troop surge negatively. Wright offered this rather amazing statistic during a dour preview of the Iraq progress report that General Petraeus will give to Congress this week. In October of 2002, the veteran journalist highlighted another nearly unanimous poll. Showing extreme naivete, he famously observed on "World News Tonight that in a 1995 Iraqi election, "... Saddam Hussein won 99.96 percent of the vote. Of course, it is impossible to say whether that's a true measure of the Iraqi people's feelings." While discussing the ABC survey of Iraqi households, Wright didn't question the fact that not one person could be found who viewed the troop surge positively. After comparing Petraeus's testimony to that of General William Westmoreland at the height of the Vietnam War,

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