"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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While the telephone survey of 1,011 U.S. adults indicates about 64% of
Americans believe the Bush administration "generally misleads the American
public on current issues to achieve its own ends," opinion on the topic is
clearly divided along party lines. A large majority (68% to 28%) of
Republicans say the Bush administration generally provides accurate
information.


These polls are misleading. For instance, I'd be among the 32% of
Republicans who believe that the administration sometimes misleads the
American public on current issues to achieve its own ends.

But I also believe that the ends justify the means. So I support the
President.

Imagine that Bush came right out and said "we're going to invade Iraq and
Afghanistan so that we can rid the World of Saddam and the Taliban...and
then establish military bases in each country right on the border of Iran
and Syria, so we can deal with those threats when the time is right". If he
had said such a thing, the news media in the US and abroad would have chewed
him up and spit him out.