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<p>Our position is: Americans owe Tony Blair a debt of gratitude for his articulate defense of pre-emptive action in Iraq.</p> <p>Unpopularity, British Prime Minister Tony Blair says, is the cost of conviction.</p> <p>Blair should know. His support of a military attack on Iraq has cost him plenty in recent weeks.</p>

The hugely influential Gallup Poll of Islamic Countries released last month continues to make news--not all of it good for the Gallup Organization, USA Today and CNN. The National Council on Public Polls, a leading professional watchdog organization, recently posted on its Web site a stinging rebuke of CNN and USA Today for the way their reporters reported the overall results of the nine-nation survey project. But now it appears that Gallup itself provided reporters with the sensational characterizations that were the primary target of NCPP criticism. (Click on the link for the full story.)