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Politics : Support the French! Viva Democracy! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (626)	4/5/2003 10:25:00 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7834

Are you saying that, once we've effectively taken Iraq militarily, that it would be better to continue to follow the plan to rebuild rather than back out?

To: epicure who wrote (626)	4/5/2003 10:28:40 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7834

Boggles my mind that so many don't think it matters if Iraq has no WMC. <<More than two-thirds of those interviewed -- 69 percent -- said that going to war with Iraq was the right thing to do even if the United States fails to turn up biological or chemical weapons, up from 53 percent in a survey taken the day after the war started. President Bush has repeatedly said Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, a claim that was central to the administration's rationale for going to war. So far, allied forces have not found any chemical or biological weapons, although they have found large Iraqi stores of special clothing used to protect soldiers from chemical or biological agents. But the poll and follow-up interviews with some survey participants suggested that relatively few Americans are disturbed that no hard evidence that Iraq currently possesses these weapons has yet surfaced. Many said they would not be bothered if none was ever found. "I would not feel that I had been sold a bill of goods by the Bush administration," said Brad Stephens, 27, a law student living in Morgantown, W.Va. "I think the guy [Hussein] is a threat. If nothing else, he's paying the families of Palestinian suicide bombers. That alone is enough to show his militant stance toward the West." But others worry what the rest of the world will think of the United States if no hard evidence of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons is uncovered. The war "will seem like an overzealous act on the part of the United States and Britain if we don't find anything," said Kevin Scollans, 60, an engineer who lives in Denville, N.J. "I would feel a lot better if we do, being that I support the war. I think it will leave a lot less questions to be answered.">> washingtonpost.com