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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (18075)	3/9/2003 2:03:20 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

For Now, Poll Says Bush Would Lose WASHINGTON -- In the strongest indication yet of President Bush's weakening political position, a new poll has found that more voters would support a Democratic alternative than would back Bush if the next presidential election were held now. The nationwide survey, done by Quinnipiac College's polling institute, found that 48% of those polled said they would vote for a Democrat while 44% would support Bush. The poll, which had a margin of error of 2.8 percentage points, surveyed 1,232 registered voters from Feb. 26 to March 3. Quinnipiac polling director Maurice Carroll noted that the survey had pitted an unnamed Democrat "without any baggage" against Bush, "who does have baggage." He said a late-January Quinnipiac poll matching Bush against seven actual Democratic candidates found the president ahead in each case. Among those who thought that terrorism was the greatest problem facing the country, the president was favored by nearly 3 to 1. (which is precisely why we keep having these bogus "terror alerts" which last for months at a time and do nothing but stagnate the economy imo) latimes.com

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (18075)	3/9/2003 2:04:47 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

United Press International From the International Desk Published 3/7/2003 12:46 PM Insider notes from United Press International for March 7 ... The anti-war movement in Europe is starting to have real impact beyond politics. Ireland's Shannon International Airport has been virtually closed to flights and refueling stops of U.S. troops and supplies by a relentless campaign of protest. Three of the four U.S. airlines hired by the Pentagon for the transports have now said they will no longer use Shannon. Over the last three weeks, demonstrators have gotten inside the perimeter and into the hangars three times, smashing aircraft with hammers, dousing their lamps and windscreens with paint. Last week, over 1,000 anti-war protesters, citing Ireland's traditional neutrality and the failure of a United Nations mandate, tried a mass trespass onto the airport, to be held back by police backed up by Irish troops. The aircraft are now using Frankfurt airport instead, and the now well-connected European movement is planning more direct action there. Belgian police last week rounded up 150 activists who were trying to stop military convoys from U.S. bases in Germany to the port of Antwerp....."