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

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (492049)	11/13/2003 2:18:22 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Poll: Majority of Americans say Iraq war faught on faulty accusations WASHINGTON (AP) — More than half of Americans say President Bush decided to go to war on Iraq based on faulty assumptions, says a poll released Thursday. An overwhelming majority of those polled — 87% — said the Bush administration portrayed Iraq as an imminent threat before the war. About as many, 84%, say the United States has not found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, according to the poll for the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland. Six in 10 say that before going to war, the U.S. government should have taken more time to find out if Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Troops have found little evidence to validate most of the Bush administration's assertions before the war that Iraq had an active chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs. Those who believe the war was based on faulty assumptions about Iraq are divided on whether the president knew the assumptions were false, according to the poll conducted by Knowledge Networks. Despite these doubts, a majority, 57%, said the United States made the right decision going to war against Iraq — down from 68% who felt that way in May. Three-fourths said the United States has a responsibility to stay in Iraq as long as necessary until there is a stable government. More than half, 52%, said this country has found clear evidence that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was working closely with the al-Qaeda terrorist organization. U.S. authorities searching Iraq, however, have found little that would suggest widespread prewar links between al-Qaeda and the government of Saddam Hussein. As Bush faces continuing questions about the Iraq war and reconstruction, public support for his handling of the campaign against terror had dropped from 66% in July to 56% now, according to an NBC-Wall Street Journal poll out Thursday. The PIPA poll of 1,008 adults was taken Oct. 29-Nov. 10 and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 2003 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (492049)	11/13/2003 2:21:54 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

The aim of any committee is to get to the truth. This memo made it very clear that the Democrats may have been planning to hold their cards until election time, then toss the gasoline and light the match too. If that seems the way you think America should be, then God help us. The left that has taken over the Democratic party has instilled so much hate that it will take years for any sort of decency comes back to your party, IMO.