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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (160576)	2/11/2003 11:52:11 AM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1575273

There's nothing wrong with using polls as a supporting argument for some political position. I agree. Polls have a place, and if the administration wants to use polls to garner political support I have no problem. There IS, however, a problem with using polls as a basis for deciding whether a particular foreign policy action is the correct action or not. Polls do not contribute any useful information to the debate as to whether war should be undertaken, as people who are responding to polls are not likely to be in a position to know whether war is appropriate or not. For that matter, most respondents are likely only passively interested in the subject and therefore ignorant of the issues. The Founding Fathers intentionally avoided a straight democracy for this reason. If we were allow the results of an election to determine when and whether we went to war, I suspect we'd have had many more wars than we have, and we would probably not won one yet.