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Politics : Stop the War!

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To: Techplayer who wrote (7859)	4/4/2003 10:51:00 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (1) of 21614

Here's a whole lot of pre-war polls. As I recall, support for the war without UN approval ultimately got to 52 percent, which was just enough for Bush to move forward. Knowing the bind Tony Blair was in in Britain, the Administration exerted tremendous public relations working the opinion of the American people. Message 18725935 In fact, Powell's UN presentation was more for American consumption than for international consumption. The following day, he and Bush did a press conference and the day after that we got the Duct Tape Terror Alert--folks easily got frightened into supporting the war. America is very good at manipulating opinion. Think. We took credit for capturing the guy we already took credit for killing, the Al Qaeda operative who plotted 9/11; we captured two of OBL's sons, and Saddam is dead. Think of all the opinion that rides with such actions. Doesn't matter these things aren't true. So long as FoxNews and AM radio conservative hosts are rallying the cry, the message will carry enough to influence the tiny sliver of middle American opinion. And that's all that counts come voting day, that tiny sliver. Would you care to comment relative to the attention span of the general public? Ah, how quickly we forget!

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