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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JakeStraw who wrote (425778)	7/11/2003 3:19:57 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 769670

Demolibs generally fear the truth...

To: JakeStraw who wrote (425778)	7/11/2003 3:32:50 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Politics has always been a dirty game How about polls? I particularly find interesting in the latest one that only 43% of the Amer. people now see that Iraq posed a threat to the US; that's down from 58% in April. The other one is that 55% of the American public think the economy is worse than it was two years ago. Lots of <50 %s in this latest poll. ********************************************************* cbsnews.com Poll: U.S. Losing Control in Iraq NEW YORK, July 10, 2003 For the first time a majority now says the Bush administration overestimated the extent of the Iraqis’ weapons. (CBS) With U.S. troops continuing to take casualties in Iraq, less than half of Americans now believe the U.S. is in control of the situation there -- a dramatic decline from April, when 71 percent thought it was. Less than half now say Iraq was a threat that required immediate action. And while 54 percent still believe that removing Saddam Hussein from power was worth the costs of war, that figure, too, has declined from 65 percent in May. A majority still believes the U.S. will eventually turn up weapons of mass destruction, but fewer are confident of this today than they were last month, and the public divides on whether the war will have been worth it if no weapons of mass destruction are found. For the first time a majority now says the Bush administration overestimated the extent of the Iraqis’ weapons. Americans continue to look homeward, and they rate the economy -- not Iraq -- as the nation’s most important problem. There is even more concern about the state of the economy -- just one in four thinks it is improving. Americans’ belief that the U.S. is in control of the situation in Iraq has plummeted to 45 percent, down from 71 percent in late April.