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To: Recovering_Democrat
I don't trust the way a lot of these questions are worded. There are many implicit assumptions in the way the questions are asked, in the context in which they would be answered today.

For example - "Military action that defies international law is sometimes justified." One would expect those who favored the Iraq war to vote "Agree" and those who didn't, "Disagree". But in that is the implicit assumption, which was promulgated by our incredibly liberal media, that the Iraq war -did- violate international law. Not only did it not violate international law, there is only one war in history that had arguably more -sanction- according to international law - the Korean War. Legally, the war we just went through in Iraq was a continuation of the '91 Gulf War, and as such was more in compliance with international law than virtually any other. But most people don't realize that.

The fact that many of these questions are wrapped around the premises that the media's liberal false propaganda has been most effective in disseminating is what makes me very suspicious of it's usefulness.

Qwinn
2 posted on 04/17/2004 12:34:22 PM PDT by Qwinn
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To: Qwinn
They explain their reasoning completely, but it is important that they don't really offer a lot of "direction"...it is not a "quiz", they say, but a "survey". No right or wrong answers--just a gauge of where one falls.

They don't give people an "out" of "no opinion"...they want us to take a stand, and they purposely make the questions ambiguous and vague.

I like the sense of trying to put the scale from left to right economically but also the top to bottom social scale.

6 posted on 04/17/2004 1:03:49 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (I'm so glad to no longer be associated with the Party of Dependence on Government!)
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