55% say Iraq has no WMD; 59% say war is justified

Fifty-eight percent of Texans say U.S. work in Iraq is going fair or poor, and most don't believe inspectors will ever find weapons of mass destruction, according to the Scripps Howard Texas Poll. "I think that's interesting considering the administration highlighted (weapons of mass...

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Published inCorpus Christi caller-times
Main Author Monica Wolfson, Scripps Howard Texas Poll Syndicate, Copyright 2004 Scripps Howard, Contact Monica Wolfson_at 334-6642 or wolfsonm@scripps.com
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LanguageEnglish
Published Corpus Christi Gannett Media Corp 14.03.2004
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Summary:Fifty-eight percent of Texans say U.S. work in Iraq is going fair or poor, and most don't believe inspectors will ever find weapons of mass destruction, according to the Scripps Howard Texas Poll. "I think that's interesting considering the administration highlighted (weapons of mass destruction) as the chief justification for going to war," said Ted Galen Carpenter, vice president for defense and foreign affairs at the Cato Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based Libertarian think tank. "If Iraq didn't have weapons of mass destruction, and it appears they didn't, you'd have to ask, how on earth did Iraq pose a threat to the U.S.?" Fifty-nine percent of Texans say the situation in Iraq was worth going to war, and that opinion has virtually remained unchanged from November, but support has dropped 13 percentage points from May. Thirty-five percent of Texans disagree with going to war, an increase of 12 percentage points from May.
ISSN:0894-5365