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On 15 Sep 2002 04:47:02 -0700, mailbox@cpacker.org (Charles Packer)
wrote:

>montep@email.com (Monte) wrote in message news:<3d839961.21863658@news.ev1.net>...
>> MSNBC/NEWSWEEK On-Line POLL: The poll was taken September 12-13, 2002
>> and had a +/- 3 percent margin of error. 
>> 256 web site responses * Percentages may not total to 100% for each
>> question due to non-responses
>> 
>> 1. Would you support using military force against Iraq?			
>> { Do they ask or give an option as to a reason?  No!  Only War yes or
>> no}
>> 
>> 
>> Yes	79%	67% 	
>> No	16%	26% 	
>> I don't know	4%	7% 	
>
>
>Though it may be irrelevant for your purposes, there are two columns
>of responses which you haven't bothered to label. What are they?
>Republicans and Democrats? Men and women? Whites and blacks?


It's as you say irrelevent to the posts contention that the questions
are flawed. Further as I stated that is a verbatim of the Poll itself,
with the exception of the noted {}.

I suspect had anyone any real interest in the numbers that they would
have gone to the MSNBC site and viewed them.  However, in this
instance I will rely on memory and say the the first number is from
the polls previous date and the second on the present.  That seemed so
obvious and logical that I did bother with it.  If the queetions are
bogus why on earth would the results have worth?

Once in a while it is necessary to think with ones own brain and not
trust totally to the outside worlds providing the answers tailored to
your own particular needs.

 
Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception. 
-- Mark Twain