Strong Words, Clearly Spoken

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Originally posted by Undertoad
If it's a POLL, and it's in the NY Times, it has been SPUN. Very simple: just ignore any stories in the Times regarding polls.

Same reasoning put forth by Richard Nixon fanatics when the NY Times repeatedly told the truth about Viet Nam. Those same right wing 'war mongers' made same accusation about any publication that did not promote a crooked administration's lies. Those same 'war mongers' also used a 'pre-emption' argument (Domino Theory) to justify their war and to label the NY Times as pinko communist liberals. Today we konw the NY Times was one of the few news sources to tell the truth. Funny. UT makes similar accusations. When the facts are contrary to the president, then insult the publication to prove it is wrong.

In the meantime, populations in virutally every nation - including Australia - are opposed to this US war - in direct contradiction to what UT would have us believe. Even in Britian, only 38% approval which is about a 50-50 split. UT can attack the messenger all he wants. Those are realities also expressed by numerous other responsible publications. Numbers are too one sided in direct contradiction to what George Jr and UT would have us believe.

When an American closest ally - Turkey (also Israels only ally in the region) - is on the order of 90% opposed, then UT must then declare all polls invalid to justify his opinion. UT posts in error twice over - once about world opinion that is strongly against Geroge Jr, and again about polls because they are so one sided in disagreement with his opinions.

But then this is all irrelevant. We attack anyway. With US military budgets now in excess of Cold War budgets (even when compensating for inlfation), the president has discovered that he can spent all he wants - and we will approve. Budget deficiet now exceed Reagan's deficiets. So who's next now that pre-emption is the doctrine and deficient spending has no limits? Pakistan? India? N Korea? Syria? France?

The problem with those polls. They show how strongly the world opposes George Jr's war. Therefore they must be wrong.