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According to this Gallup Poll:
Little Concern About Lack of WMD in Iraq
Public rejects charges of deliberate deception by Bush administration
by David W. Moore
GALLUP NEWS SERVICE
PRINCETON, NJ—Americans appear relatively unconcerned that nearly eight weeks after Saddam Hussein was deposed from power, coalition forces in Iraq have not been able to produce indisputable evidence of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Some political leaders who originally backed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq have now raised questions about whether the war was justified, given that U.K. and U.S. officials cited Iraq’s possession of WMD as a prime rationale for the invasion. And some critics have even charged the Bush administration with deliberate deception. But a new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll finds that a majority of Americans are generally sanguine about this issue.
The whole issue is a non-starter and the public isn’t falling for it. It’s bogus:
The total jump to a conclusion that the Bush administration lied. How ridiculous. There’s no evidence to support the contention. The most you can possibly say is that the Bush administration was mistaken. And many believe that WMD will be found. The public isn’t falling for this blatant canard.
The silly notion that if there were no WMD in Iraq, the war was unnecessary. Completely ridiculous. Al Qaeda didn’t use nukes on the World Trade Center. The only reason terrorism exists is that the nations that support terrorism pretend (rather absurdly) that they have nothing to do with terrorist activities. The whole terrorist plan is that we will therefore be unable to declare war on such nations, and will be helpless to defend ourselves. Well, guess again. We aren’t helpless to defend ourselves. We pick the worst nations out there, liberate them, and return them to their people. The left just falls into the hands of the terrorists when they argue that we should be paralyzed and should leave dictators like Hussein free to attack us. The American public isn’t falling for this blatant nonsense either.
The public is getting it right. Go team!
