On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 02:52:01PM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
> <http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr030701.asp>
>
> POLL ANALYSES
> July 1, 2003
>
> Fewer Say Iraq Worth Going to War Over
> Failure to find weapons of mass destruction, continuing conflict
> appear to have major impact
>
> by David W. Moore
>
> GALLUP NEWS SERVICE
>
> PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans are more divided over the merits of the
> Iraq war than they have been since January of this year, long before
> President Bush aggressively pushed the case for invading Iraq.
> Currently, 56% of Americans say the situation in Iraq was "worth
> going to war over," while 42% disagree. In mid-April, just after the
> United States took control of Baghdad, Americans said the situation
> in Iraq was worth going to war over by a 73% to 23% margin. Earlier
> this year, a Jan. 3-5 poll found opinion about as it is today -- 53%
> saying the situation was worth going to war over, and 42% saying it
> was not.
>
> A number of factors may have contributed to this decline in public
> favor, but the two most prominent appear to be the coalition's
> failure to find weapons of mass destruction, and the continuing
> fighting in Iraq. An open-ended question asked respondents who felt
> the situation was not worth fighting over to explain in their own
> words why they felt that way.
>
> [...]
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