Reply #28: Without a 2nd UN vote, the majority of Americans opposed bush's invasion [View All]

[LynnTheDem]

Until the bombs were dropping on Baghdad.

"...if the Bush administration does not seek a final Security Council vote, support for a war drops to 47%."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-03-16-poll-iraq_x.htm

So of course bush swore up & down that he would seek a 2nd vote;

"No matter what the whip count is, we're calling for the vote. We want to see people stand up and say what their opinion is about Saddam Hussein and the utility of the United Nations Security Council. And so, you bet. It's time for people to show their cards, to let the world know where they stand when it comes to Saddam."

-3/6/03

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030306-8.html

but in fact bush LIED. And FLIP FLOPPED. Again.

"At a National Security Council meeting convened at the White House at 8:55 a.m., Bush finalized the decision to withdraw the resolution from consideration and prepared to deliver an address to the nation that had already been written."

-3/18/03

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2003/Mar/18/ln/ln11a.html

Without a 2nd UN vote, American support was a minority 47%. The US StenoMedia tried to bury that little bit of info.