Are Bush's Domestic Critics a Fifth Column? Public Opinion and the Iraq War.

The article examines claims by politicians and pundits that criticism of the foreign policy of the administration of George W. Bush undermines the Iraq war effort. The study employed vector autoregression models to analyze weekly time series measuring U.S. public opinion of the country's foreign policy under Bush, the general level of hostility of the government towards the Ba'ath party and Iraqi insurgents, as well as the hostility of the party and insurgents towards U.S. forces in Iraq.