UN should have backed Iraq: poll

news.com.au ^ | March 30, 2003 | AAP

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UN should have backed Iraq: poll
March 30, 2003

A MAJORITY of people in Britain, the United States, Australia and New Zealand believed the United Nations should have sanctioned military action against Iraq, an international poll suggested today.

The Roy Morgan International Poll surveyed 1,660 randomly selected people in those four countries five days after the war began.

When asked whether the UN should have supported military action against Iraq to depose Saddam Hussein, 81 per cent of Americans said yes, as did 66 per cent of Britons, 61 per cent of Australians and 50 per cent of New Zealanders.

The survey also found there was a widespread belief that the fight against the Iraqi dictator, in favour of democracy and for world peace, was right.

Many respondents said it was the UN's role to suppress bad regimes, while others believed it was the role of the United States as the world's superpower to remove the world's dictators.

Others said enough evidence had been presented about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction to support miliary action, while others said a sign of strength and solidarity from the UN would have prevented the war.

AAP

[logic101.net]

Dude, really mis-leading title. Makes it sound like a majority of people are against us taking out an evil, genocidal dictator before he gets atomic weapons. The post says exactly the opposite!


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[AZFolks]

Everyone should be forced to read Winston Churchill's "History of the English Speaking Countries." We are the dominant force in the world, economically, religiously, militarilty and morally. The reason Canada has strayed is that they have moved into the "French Camp." Stations report demonstrations in Montreal and Quebec - who give a rats ***. Quebec province cannot even get along with other Canadians and every few years or so threaten to break from the union. The only problem is that the Quebec Province cannot support itself and needs the Western provinces to survive. The rest of the Provinces are strongly pro American - they are our brothers and sisters.