Americans Chide Bush Administration On WMD’s

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<snip> Before the war with Iraq, when talking about what they knew about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, do you think the members of the Bush Administration were telling everything they knew, most of what they knew, hiding important elements of what they knew, or mostly lying?

Telling everything 8%
Telling most 29%
Hiding elements 36%
Mostly lying 23%
Don’t know 4%

If the United States and its allies never find any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, then do you think the war against Iraq will have been worth the loss of American life and other costs of attacking Iraq, or not?

Jan. 2005 / Apr. 2003
Worth it 41% 60%
Not worth it 53% 34%
Don’t know 6% 6%

Source: CBS News / The New York Times
Methodology: Telephone interviews to 1,118 American adults, conducted from Jan. 14 to Jan. 28, 2005. Margin of error is 3 per cent.

http://www.cpod.ca/polls/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewItem&itemID=5716


Uncertainty About Iraq Election Continues In U.S.

<snip> After there is an elected government in place in Iraq, do you think this will or will not…

Will \ Will Not \ Not Sure
Lead to a reasonably free and democratic system of government in Iraq
28% 41% 31%
Be a model which will help spread freedom and democracy in the Middle East
24% 47% 29%
Enable most U.S. troops to leave Iraq in the next year
18% 59% 23%
Reduce the number of attacks against the U.S. troops
17% 64% 19%

Source: Harris Interactive
Methodology: Online interviews with 2,029 American adults, conducted from Jan. 11 to Jan. 16, 2005. Margin of error is 2 per cent.

http://www.cpod.ca/polls/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewItem&itemID=5709