Why the difference

Ok...as I am not overly political, someone correct me if I'm wrong here. How come I hear people saying that we "freed" the Iraqi people, and they wanted to be freed, but in actually it was a close call almost divided equally between those wanting to "be freed" and those wanting us to leave them alone, but I think those wanting us to leave them alone averaged more than those that wanted to be "freed". Then I hear these same people talking about the majority wanted Bush back in , when in actuality, it was very close, "almost" 50/50....but they'll continue with the Majority want him, but they look at entirely the other way about freeing the Iraqi people....it's very confusing these types of people. Or am I just hearing wrong?