I'm not even aware of there having been "poll after poll" in postwar Iraq ... its not exactly a pollster-friendly environment right now. "Yes, hello, may I ask you something?" ... heh.
That is why, I would gather, that one poll I linked to was such a globe-spanning effort (with participating partners from the US, England, Germany and Japan), and was proclaimed to be quite something special ...
Now, its results were not wholly unwelcome for the administration, but they didn't include anything much in the ways of 90-something% ...
This question from it is specifically relevant to Bremer's claim:
Quote:Q17 - "There can be differences between the way government is set up in a country, called political system, and the type of people who run that system, called actors. From the six options I am going to read to you, please choose one system and one type of actors."
Strong leader 27.5%
Islamic state 20.5%
Democracy 48.5%
Difficult to say 3.5%
