Re: Arab World Stunned by Baghdad's Fall

From: Damien Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Sat Apr 12 2003 - 17:57:34 MDT

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    On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 04:27:35PM -0700, Mike Lorrey wrote:

    > the duck se is. Since 78% of Americans fully support Bush's policy on
    > Iraq, you are expressing your opposition to the opinion of more than
    > 3/4 of the American people. Since that is more than enough of a
    > supermajority to amend our own constitution, it should be a given that
    > if you are against the policy we Americans agree with by such a large
    > margin, then you are against us, ergo anti-American.

    Gallup said 72% a few weeks ago, although the number probably fluctuates.
    http://www.gallup.com/subscription/?m=f&c_id=13258

    Actually, it does seem to fluctuate a lot, or else Gallup isn't that accurate:
    http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr030410.asp
    "worth going to war" went from 67% to 76% from April 7 to April 9. I suspect
    a lot of this is retrospective: the war seemed to go well, therefore it's
    supportable...

    A majority of us regard France as an ally or friend:
    http://www.gallup.com/subscription/?m=f&c_id=13253
    And really, I doubt the French are at all disappointed.

    75% think having good relations with France and Germany is important:
    http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr030411.asp

    so if, hypothetically, you disagreed with them, would that make you
    anti-American, since you'd be disagreeing with a supermajority of Americans?
    Originally I was going to ask if the 22% of Americans who didn't support
    Bush's policy (by your statistic) were anti-American, but this works too.

    -xx- Damien X-)



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