(CPOD) Jul. 16, 2003 - A considerable number of Americans believe the administration of president George W. Bush misled the public about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, according to a poll by the Princeton Survey Research Associates published in Newsweek. 38 per cent of respondents think the United States government overstated the capabilities of Saddam Hussein's regime.

Polls conducted in Britain show higher percentages of people who believe intelligence reports were overstated to make the case for war more plausible.

Bush faced tough questions last weekend, when information included in the State of the Union address was deemed faulty. The paragraph in question regarded Iraq's alleged acquisition of uranium from Africa. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director George Tenet took the blame for the error.

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