Another interpretation: It has nothing to do with the American people, and the poll respondents know that.
I suspect most respondents mean that, in some vague way, the United States was insufficiently ''nice''
And nothing to do with being 'nice'. The 200 military incursions since 1950 help cause resentment. Planning to replace the Cold War monopoly with a new controlled war, the spooks hiding in the Bushes planned during the Reagan/Bush administration to train new enemies, and hit upon training an ancient, failed, warlike culture, the the militantly ignorant Islamists. The first suicide bombing incidents began in 1982, not a coincidence.
It will likely turn out that the "psychosis" wouldn't have reached this point without billions from CIA and Saudi Arabian partners, ostensibly to beat the Russians. Actually, thousands sent through CIA-prepared terrorist training camps and millions of schoolbooks feeding war-as-normal-existance written in the US were for the purpose of creating a controllable enemy for budget and strategic purposes.
In the current case, the purpose is a business deal. Neither Saudi Arabia nor Israel wants Iraq there, but they are irrelevent. It's a trillion+ dollars in oil and control of that region, plus the big kahuna of wartime political control of the US electorate that counts.
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