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Wednesday, December 3, 2008 12:00 AM

The buck stops where?

Our delusional president laments the "intelligence failure" that identified nonexistent WMD in Iraq and admits he was "unprepared" for war.
Joan Walsh

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  • Thursday, December 4, 2008 07:15 AM

    wijid is wrong

    By claiming that support for the war never went above 60%.

    A Pew/CFR poll had support at 62% in October 2002.

    http://www.cfr.org/publication.html?id=5051

    In any case, presidents do not decide to go to war based on polls. As similar percentage (61%) of Americans supported Clinton's illegal war of choice on Kosovo. Should he have called it off since he did not have, say, 80% support?

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