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My wife dug up an account of the poll that the NYT was so
surreptitiously reporting.<br>
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The whole thing makes interesting reading:<br>
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On 8/29/10 9:36 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
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The NY Times' advertisements for war (misnamed "News" and
"Opinion") include one overwhelming fact about Americans'
opinions. Buried in the jump from the "Week in Review" article
about (one aspect of ) the US war in the Mideast - and thoroughly
cushioned by persiflage - it is revealed that <br>
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"In a CBS News poll last week ... 59 percent said that the United
States did not do the right thing going to war in Iraq in the
first place and 72 percent said that the war was not worth the
loss of life and other costs to the country..."!<br>
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These numbers are all the more remarkable because these opinions
are simply not heard anywhere in the US media. But people are not
fools, in spite of the force of government and media propaganda. <br>
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By the late 1960's, 70 percent of Americans
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regarded the war in Vietnam as "fundamentally wrong and immoral,"
<em>not "a mistake</em>" - but that was with a vigorous antiwar
movement and hence a higher level of political discussion in the
media. <br>
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