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To: bentway who wrote (28773)	10/12/2004 7:00:29 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 173976

Poll: U.S. allies' residents link Iraq war, more indystar.com By Will Lester Associated Press October 12, 2004 WASHINGTON -- More than two-thirds of the people living in Australia, Britain and Italy -- three countries allied with the United States in the Iraq war -- believe the war has increased the threat of terrorism. Leaders of those countries -- prime ministers Tony Blair of Britain and John Howard of Australia and Premier Silvio Berlusconi of Italy -- all get low marks from their people for their handling of the anti-terror war, an Associated Press-Ipsos poll shows. More than half of those in the United States, 52 percent, believe the Iraq war has increased the threat of terrorism, while three in 10 in the United States think it has decreased the threat -- a view promoted by President Bush. "In the context of the presidential campaign in the United States, this is undeniably a blow for George W. Bush, since it shows that a majority of Americans don't agree with the main justification for his policy in Iraq," said Gilles Corman, research director at Ipsos-Inra of Belgium, who studies public opinion trends in Europe. In Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain, a majority thought last winter that the Iraq war was increasing the threat of terrorism. That number has increased in each of the countries. Australians were not polled in the AP-Ipsos project last winter. In Australia and each of five European countries polled, only about one in 20 believe the Iraq war decreased the terror threat. • In Australia, the public was evenly divided on Howard's handling of terrorism, with only 44 percent approving. • In Britain, the poll found only one-third approve of Blair's handling of the war on terror. • Berlusconi has seen Italians' fears of terrorism increase sharply since last winter -- from seven in 10 worried about terrorism in February to almost nine in 10 now. Just over one-third of Italians approve of Berlusconi's handling of terrorism. The AP-Ipsos telephone polls of about 1,000 adults in each of the eight countries except Mexico were taken between Sept. 23 and Oct. 2 and have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. The poll in Mexico of 1,030 adults was taken face-to-face from Sept. 23-26 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.