According to a poll conducted by Pew, USA president George Bush had a 70% approval rating the week before his Mission Accomplished speech in Iraq war. It would never reach that again and the Iraq war divided America. The president’s approval rating continued to decline.
On this day, 2002, the Iraqi government accepted the UN's right to inspect undisclosed sites related to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein for inspections. Despite all these facts and the absence of any evidence indicating the existence of weapons of mass destruction, the United States and NATO attacked Iraq.
