"Jim" wrote in message news:qVAgc.1828
Poll results

The Progress Report asked its readers (you may recall) to help President
Bush name his biggest national security mistake since taking office.
22,000
responses later, the results a

This "poll" shows nothing more than the power of repetitive media
pronouncements to influence public opinion.



1. Invading Iraq without a plan for the aftermath, 34.09%

Insisting that there was "no plan" is foolish and presumptuous. Of course
there was a plan. Neither does observing that the original plan has not
worked particularly well require a great degree of astutness.

2. Focusing on missile defense while ignoring repeated warnings of an
imminent al Qaeda attack before 9/11, 32.55%

There were no "...repeated warnings of an imminent al Qaeda attack before
9/11..."


3. Telling the American people that Iraq definitely possessed WMD, 26.34%

Iraq *did* possess B & C weapons, and *did* have a nuclear program aborning.


4. Failing to send U.S. troops into Tora Bora to capture Osama bin Laden
in
November 2001, 5%

This truly was a tactical mistake -- no way around that. Telling that only
5% recognize it as such.