Labor plays down war support polls(Australia)

The Age ^ | 22 March 2003 | aap

[smpc]

A federal Labor frontbencher has played down a poll which shows public support for Australia's involvement in the Iraq attack is rising.

A Newspoll survey found opposition to the war had fallen from an overwhelming majority in just a week.

Labor member for Melbourne, Lindsay Tanner, said now the troops were engaged it was not unexpected that support for the war had grown.

"The fighting has started, our troops have been committed, we haven't had any casualties. There is no gruesome pictures on the television screen about some the consequences of civilian casualties," he told radio 3AW.

"You would expect that this is the time there would be the highest support for war (but) even at that time the opposition to the war is still larger than for it."

The survey, published in The Australian, found 47 per cent of respondents were against the military action and 45 per cent were in favour, while the remaining eight per cent were uncommitted.

[smpc]

These Labor rats made a huge miscalculation regarding how many Australians actually do support this war.Once again,they have made fools of themselves and have further reduced their chances of ever again getting into government.At least the labor leaders of 15 years ago had a party platform.

[danmar]

...on another thread I kinda and totally forgot to mention our aussie friends in this important operation.

My deepest regards to the "aussies"....btw, did you hear what they did today?

[smpc]

The bombing?

[WOSG]

The Left is Wrong Again.

And once again they dont admit it.

[MEG33]

They've been doing in country intelligence and helped secure oilfields,did some fighting,tended the wounded Iraqis and moved on. They are definately in it as are the Poles.

[smpc]

Yeah i heard about that,the most significant thing from here was that we actually dropped our first bomb on Iraq......i think its been a while since we've actually dropped bombs.

[MEG33]

How many columns will that generate considering the children.I've lost the article my info came from. I read the Aussie paper since Bali. Love Margo Kingston(Not).

[The South Texan]

Thank you Ausies!

[smpc]

I havent read any lefty commentary on it,only the facts that it was a GB-U12 laser guided.The more news of Australian involvement,the less the lefty columnists seem to write.....so far anyway.

[MEG33]

Good! Go Aussies!

[danmar]

The bombing?

Noooooooooo...the australian commandoes seized an Iraqi C&B command center(chemical & biological).Now that's some thing....

[MEG33]

That is outstanding!