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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (42845)	9/9/2002 11:47:44 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 281500

Uneasy, America looks to the future 68 percent of Americans think Bush should get Congressional approval before launching war; 67 percent think the US should get UN sanctions. NBC-WSJ poll: U.S. uncertain, fearful, but resolved to change By Michael E. Ross MSNBC Sept. 8 — Americans are uncertain about the direction of the country, the prospect of war with Iraq and President Bush’s leadership, according to a new NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll. The survey finds the nation approaching the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks with a feeling of vulnerability and doubt that things will return to normal, but also with the conviction that changes in the wake of the attacks are more for better than for worse. Sept. 8 — NBC’s Virginia Cha reports on the mood in the United States, as the nation prepares to mark the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. THE POLL, conducted by Democratic pollster Peter Hart and Republican pollster Robert Teeter between Tuesday and Thursday, contacted 1,011 Americans for responses on a wide range of issues, domestic and foreign. “They basically are concerned about Iraq, they’re concnerned about the economy and they’re concerned about terrorism,” Hart said. “All of those things make the country uncertain today.” The poll, which has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points, found that Americans are approaching the Sept. 11 anniversary with a degree of fear. The attacks had “an indelible, but not a paralyzing impact” on the country, the poll reported in figures that find 67 percent saying the country has “a long way to go” to return to normal, or expressing the belief that America will never return to its pre-Sept. 11 sense of confidence. Advertisement Eighty-two percent said it is either very or somewhat likely the United States will be the target of a major attack in the next few months. But coupled with the expectation of another attack is a perhaps more fatalistic assessment of post-9/11 life. When asked whether they worry “on most days” about another attack affecting them or their families, only 24 percent said yes. POLL: CONSULT CONGRESS, ALLIES The situation with Iraq is clearly on the American mind — 58 percent of Americans said the United States should take military action to remove Saddam Hussein from power — but so is concern over international involvement. Sixty-eight percent said that Bush “should get congressional approval before taking any action against Saddam Hussein because Congress should have a role in the decision.” An almost identical number — 67 percent — say the United States should seek a U.N. resolution before taking action against Iraq.