July 25, 2003

(CPOD) Jul. 25, 2003 - The evidence presented by the United States government to go to war in Iraq has made Americans wary of future conflicts, according to a poll by Knowledge Networks for the Program on International Policy Attitudes. Half of all respondents say they will be more careful about intelligence reports in the future.

U.S. president George W. Bush faced tough questions last week over Iraq's alleged aim to acquire uranium in Africa; an assertion included in the president's Jan. 28 State of the Union address. 42 per cent of respondents believe the government was misleading when evidence was presented, but only 16 per cent say intelligence information was false.

Polling Data

In the future, if the president presents evidence that a country has a secret program for building weapons of mass destruction, do you think that you will...

Feel more wary than you did before	50%
Trust the president as much as before	45%

Is it your impression that when the U.S. government presented the evidence to justify going to war in Iraq, it was being misleading?

Yes	42%
No	52%

Is it your impression that when the U.S. government presented evidence of Iraq having weapons of mass destruction to justify going to war, it was...

Presenting evidence it knew was false	16%
Stretching the truth, but not making false statements	47%
Being fully truthful	30%

Source: Knowledge Networks / Program on International Policy Attitudes.
Methodology: Interviews to 1,066 American adults, conducted from Jul. 11 to Jul. 20, 2003. Margin of error is 3.5 per cent.

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