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ng that the affordability line may be drawn around five 328 however while commander of centcom zinni held a very different opinion concerning the threat posed by iraq in testimony before the senate armed services committee in february 2000 zinni said iraq remains the most significant near term threat to u s interests in the persian gulf region this is primarily due to its large conventional military force pursuit of wmd oppressive treatment of iraqi citizens refusal to comply with unsc resolutions persistent threats to enforcement of the no fly zones nfz and continued efforts to violate un security council sanctions through oil smuggling 329 zinni specifically referred to the persian gulf region in his senate testimony which is a significantly smaller region of the world than the middle east which he referred to in 2007 potential to destabilize the region edit besides arguing that iraq was not the top strategic priority in the war on terrorism or in the middle east critics of the war also suggested that it could potentially destabilize the surrounding region prominent among such critics was brent scowcroft who served as national security advisor to george h w bush in a 15 august 2002 the wall street journal editorial entitled don t attack saddam scowcroft wrote that possibly the most dire consequences would be the effect in the region there would be an explosion of outrage against us the results could well destabilize arab regimes and could even swell the ranks of the terrorists 330 in 2015 blair apologized for his mistakes over iraq war and admitted there were elements of truth to the view that the invasion helped promote the rise of isis 331 in the opinion of hayder al khoei iraq was already destined for chaos before 2003 332 public opinion edit in a march 2003 gallup poll the day after the invasion 76 of americans supported the military action against iraq 333 in a march yougov poll 54 of britons had approved of military action against iraq 334 by 2007 opposition to the iraq war had increased to 62 among americans in a usa today gallup poll 335 in 2013 a gallup poll found that 53 percent of americans surveyed believed the iraq war was a mistake 336 in 2023 an axios ipsos poll found that 61 of americans believed the u s made a wrong decision by invading iraq 337 related phrases edit poland was part of the coalition of the willing this campaign featured a variety of new terminology much of it initially coined by the u s government or military the military official name for the invasion was operation iraqi freedom also notable was the usage death squads to refer to fedayeen paramilitary forces iraqi officials were given derogatory nicknames e g chemical ali ali hassan al majid baghdad bob or comical ali muhammed saeed al sahaf and mrs anthrax or chemical sally huda salih mahdi ammash terminology introduced or popularized during the war include axis of evil originally used by bush in his 2002 state of the union speech on 29 january 2002 to refer to the countries of iran iraq and north korea 338 coalition of the willing a term that originated in the clinton era and used by the bush administration for the countries contributing troops in the invasion of which the u s and uk were the primary members decapitating the regime a euphemism for killing saddam hussein embedding the american practice of assigning civilian journalists to u s military units freedom fries a euphemism for french fries invented to protest the non participation of france mother of all bombs a bomb developed and produced to support operation iraqi freedom its name echoed saddam s phrase mother of all battles to describe the gulf war 339 old europe rumsfeld s term for european governments not supporting the war you re thinking of europe as germany and france i don t i think that s old europe regime change a euphemism for overthrowing a government shock and awe the strategy of reducing an enemy s will to fight through displays of overwhelming force many slogans and terms coined came to be used by bush s political opponents or those opposed to the war for example in april 2003 john kerry said at a campaign rally what we need now is not just a regime change in saddam hussein and iraq but we need a regime change in the united states 340 bush s press secretary ari fleischer talked about operation iraqi liberation in a 2003 press briefing 341 and operation iraqi liberation oil was also used by david rovics a popular folk protest singer see also edit 2000s portal iraq portal international reactions to the prelude to the iraq war timeline of the iraq war protests against the iraq war public opinion in the united states on the invasion of iraq iraq disarmament crisis united nations security council and the iraq war 2003 invasion of iraq order of battle operation telic order of battle notes edit the conflict occasionally spilled over into kuwait due to the iraqi military firing missiles across the international border to attack american and 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