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To: TimF who wrote (170343)	6/2/2003 5:28:49 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 1582690

And before they pushed the WMD issue, less than 50% were willing to go to war without the backing of the UN. This war was not popular with the people........war never is The WMD was not something just made up last minute by the administration. It was an issue since the last war. The Clinton administration signed off on the idea of regime change (even if they didn't do anything to cause it to happen) largely based on the WMD issue. What was the reality since the Clinton administration was uncertainty about WMD. That's why the weapons inspectors were sent in.......some believed that WMD still existed and its was the responsibility of the inspectors to find out. However, the administration became impatient with the process and knew that a war had to be fought before May and so began to complain, culminating with the famous...some now are calling it infamous........presentation done by Powell in front of the UN in Feb. Powell said he had proof that Iraq had WMD and presented pics presumably depicting them. He then cited the famous......some would call it infamous......Brit. Intelligence report that gave irrefutable proof or so he claimed that Saddam had WMD. We later learned that a part of that report had been plagiarized from a Ph.d thesis. It was after that meeting that public opinion finally was swayed by all the administration talk about WMD. The American public no longer required UN approval for the invasion of Iraq. The war was popular. Any poll that didn't mention the UN showed majority support for the war. The polls that asked "if the UN doesn't support it" sometimes showed a majority early on, and then after it became clear that the UN wasn't going to improve they consistently showed majority support (and other polls showed increasing frustration and dislike for France and to a lesser extent other countries that where blocking the issue in the UN). Show me a poll that gave a clear majority of the people [more than 60%] wanting the war without UN approval or solid evidence of WMD. And selling a concept is not the way a democracy is supposed to work........not a good one in any case. I disagree. In an authoritarian system you might not have to sell people on an idea, but in a democracy different ideas and plans compete for votes and support. You're confusing political campaigns with building a better society.........maybe that's the problem. ted

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