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It's not too late to let arsehole Bush, soon to be known as the Beast of Baghdad, go it alone...
From today's Guardian:
Casualty of war: in 15 months the prime minister's rating has fallen 62 points
New poll rubs salt into wounds inflicted by peace marchers
Alan Travis, home affairs editor
Tuesday February 18, 2003
The Guardian
The clear majority opposition to a military attack on Iraq recorded by this month's Guardian/ICM poll represents a significant personal failure for Tony Blair in his attempt to persuade British public opinion.
It was only four months ago, in November, that the argument was much more finely balanced with only one point separating the anti-war camp's 40% from the 39% who believed an attack was justified to topple Saddam Hussein.
But since November opposition to the war has steadily mounted and risen by 12 points to its new peak of 52%. Over the same period support for the war has slumped to 29%. What was a one-point gap has become 23-point chasm between the two sides of the debate.
The size of the task facing the prime minister was reinforced by the unprecedented scale of the weekend protests against the war, when more than 1 million people took to the streets in London and thousands more demonstrated outside the Glasgow conference centre where Mr Blair was speaking.
ppman
It's not too late to let arsehole Bush, soon to be known as the Beast of Baghdad, go it alone...
From today's Guardian:
Casualty of war: in 15 months the prime minister's rating has fallen 62 points
New poll rubs salt into wounds inflicted by peace marchers
Alan Travis, home affairs editor
Tuesday February 18, 2003
The Guardian
The clear majority opposition to a military attack on Iraq recorded by this month's Guardian/ICM poll represents a significant personal failure for Tony Blair in his attempt to persuade British public opinion.
It was only four months ago, in November, that the argument was much more finely balanced with only one point separating the anti-war camp's 40% from the 39% who believed an attack was justified to topple Saddam Hussein.
But since November opposition to the war has steadily mounted and risen by 12 points to its new peak of 52%. Over the same period support for the war has slumped to 29%. What was a one-point gap has become 23-point chasm between the two sides of the debate.
The size of the task facing the prime minister was reinforced by the unprecedented scale of the weekend protests against the war, when more than 1 million people took to the streets in London and thousands more demonstrated outside the Glasgow conference centre where Mr Blair was speaking.
ppman
