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To: beach_bum who wrote (453782)	2/3/2009 2:22:59 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) of 1574680

Beach_bum, polls like those are usually designed by the media to elicit certain opinions. Support for the war remained strong, but the press wanted to highlight the differences in degree of that support. Take a look at all of the "ifs": > While 67 percent of respondents in the Times/CBS poll said they supported the use of military force to remove Saddam Hussein, this figure represents no increase over previous polls, and indicates that the Bush administration’s concentrated campaign since early September to whip up a war fever has failed to shift popular sentiment. Moreover, the support for military action drops precipitously when the issue is posed more concretely. For example, only 54 percent of respondents said they would back military action if it involved substantial US losses. Significantly, that figure dropped to 49 percent if the war involved substantial Iraqi civilian casualties, and again fell to 49 percent if an attack were to evolve into a prolonged war. Perhaps one of the biggest selling points of the war wasn't WMD itself, but the estimated cost of the war, including money, time, and lives. Tenchusatsu

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