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To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (82782)	3/16/2003 7:53:04 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Sarmad, there is a difference between electoral majority and popular majority. Most of the times we are willing to yield to electoral majority even when we don't like what they do. But war is a different issue. Legally, Bush can do whatever he can get approval for. But morally, he should not go to war before presenting his case better and garnering better popular support. What you are seeing is people doing their part to prevent Bush from doing what they deem as a grave mistake. As you have pointed out, he is in the office and he has both houses. So the mere fact that he is having such a hard time pushing it through means that the "misguided minority " may actually be a majority (or close to it). ST

To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (82782)	3/16/2003 8:51:19 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 281500

Samad, I'm happy to discuss this point with you, if you wish. But will not discuss it with a new poster who decides the way to introduce himself is to be as rude as possible. I find it helpful to focus, not on the general question of elections or polls but on the specific polling questions about the Iraq invasion. In that respect, what I've seen is best expressed in Hendrik Hertzberg's rendering in The New Yorker which is basically a bunch of superficial contradictions which, in turn, suggested the public had yet to sort the issues apart in some serious manner, thanks to the bungling diplomacy/PR/public explanations of the Bush folk. In short, we wait on defining events before we genuinely know US public opinion. What we do know is global public opinion. The most massive "no" ever issued, bar none.