Um..no.. I've cited public polling. If the polls indicated otherwise, then my speech would indicate likewise..
You claim the American President is elected by referendum. This is absolutely not true.
Oh please, gimme a break. If it's not obvious what I'm doing in that remark, then look up over your head...
You have a stake in this argument just like anybody else. Your stake (altough you have declined to name it to me) will inevitably drag your objectivity down.
Whatever my stake would not extend so far as dismissing poll results simply because they disagree with my preferred version of reality. I could cite innumerable polls that contradict that which I wish were true about public opinion...
Wasn't obvious to me. Direct election of the President is a specific democratic platform.
Whatever my stake would not extend so far as dismissing poll results simply because they disagree with my preferred version of reality.
The polls mean squat and you know this. You knew in 1991, that whether you wanted us to or not- we would eventually have to take Saddam down. This was obvious. It's just like going to work in the morning, wanting to or not is a side issue.
I'm sure if I were the head of one of the leftist media and given any amount of time, I could manipulate public opinion any way I wanted. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. We don't run this country based on one of Dan Rather's latest polls. Show me in the Constitution where it says the latest opinion poll has any bearing whatsoever. We are not a democracy and hopefully we never will be. Mob rule has no place in America.
I still reject your assertions. I believe America is reflective enough to know that Saddam had to go. I believe they knew it even more so after 9/11 and I believe they would supported this President in this mission with or without the WMD. The WMD have always been a foregone conclusion though. It's a silly argument. Everybody knows Saddam had these weapons. Everydody (you included) knows that it is only the opponents of the war or opponents of Bush that are clamouring for the weapons now. You know this. Saddam had them. Those weapons are out there somewhere. They will turn up. And when they do, people using them for their own little petty arguments are going to look awfully stupid.