Suspicious Surveys By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

You can be sure that when the media release a poll tied to a major news event, it's often biased. The testimony of Gen. David Petraeus on the eve of the sixth anniversary of 9/11 was just such an event.

Two major polls released this week struck us as particularly tendentious. One, from the U.S.-based Associated Press in conjunction with France's Ipsos polling firm, claimed "most Americans see the Iraq war as a failure" and that a majority also think the 30,000-troop surge led by Petraeus "is not working."

Meanwhile, a separate poll, this one of Iraqis by ABC/BBC/NHK, found "worsening public attitudes," with 65% to 70% saying the surge has hurt security, not helped.

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