New Gallup Poll Info
Gallup: 50% of Americans Now Say Bush Deliberately Misled Them on WMDs
By E&P Staff
Published: April 26, 2005 11:45 AM ET
NEW YORK Half of all Americans, exactly 50%, now say the Bush administration deliberately misled Americans about whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, the Gallup Organization reported this morning.
"This is the highest percentage that Gallup has found on this measure since the question was first asked in late May 2003," the pollsters observed. "At that time, 31% said the administration deliberately misled Americans. This sentiment has gradually increased over time, to 39% in July 2003, 43% in January/February 2004, and 47% in October 2004."
Also, according to the latest poll, more than half of Americans, 54%, disapprove of the way President Bush is handling the situation in Iraq, while 43% approve. In early February, Americans were more evenly divided on the way Bush was handling the situation in Iraq, with 50% approving and 48% disapproving.
Last week Gallup reported that 53% now believe that the U.S. invasion of Iraq was "not worth it." But Frank Newport, editor in chief at Gallup, recalled today that although a majority of the public began to think the Vietnam war was a mistake in the summer of 1968, the United States did not pull out of Vietnam for more than five years, after thousands of more American lives were lost.
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Now if Gallup, notorius for high Republican weighting, says that the number is 50%, you can bet it's probably closer to 55%-57%. What I don't understand is: what the hell are the other 45%-50% thinking? Let me guess: they watch Fox News.
But seriously, what will it take to understand at the very least that ...
1) Iraq was NO threat to this country.
2) Iraq had NO WMD's or any program of any sort.
3) The Administration spread lies and falsehoods to start this war.
4) The Administration HAD intelligence that stated points 1 & 2, but cherry-picked some intelligence, hired drunkard German operatives (which Germany told them to "not believe") and "Bolton"-ed the rest.
Now people like Rumsfeld are going on TV saying, "We never used to words imminent threat."
C'mon, the jig is up. For every day that goes by, more and more evidence is started to come out (despite our corporate media) that Bush and his cronies LIED (not "were mistaken", but LIED) about the reasons going to war.
Anybody that believes that it was "bad intelligence" really needs to examine themselves and put our nation and our troops ahead of people with a little "R" next to their names.
Gallup: 50% of Americans Now Say Bush Deliberately Misled Them on WMDs
By E&P Staff
Published: April 26, 2005 11:45 AM ET
NEW YORK Half of all Americans, exactly 50%, now say the Bush administration deliberately misled Americans about whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, the Gallup Organization reported this morning.
"This is the highest percentage that Gallup has found on this measure since the question was first asked in late May 2003," the pollsters observed. "At that time, 31% said the administration deliberately misled Americans. This sentiment has gradually increased over time, to 39% in July 2003, 43% in January/February 2004, and 47% in October 2004."
Also, according to the latest poll, more than half of Americans, 54%, disapprove of the way President Bush is handling the situation in Iraq, while 43% approve. In early February, Americans were more evenly divided on the way Bush was handling the situation in Iraq, with 50% approving and 48% disapproving.
Last week Gallup reported that 53% now believe that the U.S. invasion of Iraq was "not worth it." But Frank Newport, editor in chief at Gallup, recalled today that although a majority of the public began to think the Vietnam war was a mistake in the summer of 1968, the United States did not pull out of Vietnam for more than five years, after thousands of more American lives were lost.
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Now if Gallup, notorius for high Republican weighting, says that the number is 50%, you can bet it's probably closer to 55%-57%. What I don't understand is: what the hell are the other 45%-50% thinking? Let me guess: they watch Fox News.
But seriously, what will it take to understand at the very least that ...
1) Iraq was NO threat to this country.
2) Iraq had NO WMD's or any program of any sort.
3) The Administration spread lies and falsehoods to start this war.
4) The Administration HAD intelligence that stated points 1 & 2, but cherry-picked some intelligence, hired drunkard German operatives (which Germany told them to "not believe") and "Bolton"-ed the rest.
Now people like Rumsfeld are going on TV saying, "We never used to words imminent threat."
C'mon, the jig is up. For every day that goes by, more and more evidence is started to come out (despite our corporate media) that Bush and his cronies LIED (not "were mistaken", but LIED) about the reasons going to war.
Anybody that believes that it was "bad intelligence" really needs to examine themselves and put our nation and our troops ahead of people with a little "R" next to their names.
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