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To: tejek who wrote (453760)	2/3/2009 1:46:44 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575184

>>> That's crap. Polls were running against Bush until Powell brought up the bio trucks. Polls don't make a damned bit of difference. Competent presidents ignore them on major issues, as Bush did. Hamilton wrote about the emotions of the moment in the Federalist Papers. "A USA Today/Gallup Poll indicated that 75% of US citizens felt the US did not make a mistake in sending troops to Iraq in March 2003. However, according to the same poll retaken in April 2007, 58% of the participants stated that the initial attack was a mistake.[1] In May, 2007, the New York Times and CBS News released similar results of a poll in which 61% of participants believed the U.S. "should have stayed out" of Iraq.[2]" Obviously, the decisions to go to war or not cannot be accommodated by a polling process. Bush did what 75% of citizens wanted in March of 03. Later, these same people changed their tunes, but it isn't possible to get a "redo" on going to war. Polls are meaningless in the context you so often try to use them -- i.e., to Monday-morning quarterback.