"Poll: Libby Indictment Hits Major Nerve"

[GreenPartyVoter]

WASHINGTON (AP) - The recent indictment of Vice President Cheney's top aide has struck a nerve with the American public. Four in five, 79 percent, said the indictment of former Cheney aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby on perjury and other charges is important to the nation, according to a poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. Pew noted that in September 1998, 65 percent said President Clinton's lies under oath were important. Clinton was impeached over his handling of an affair with Monica Lewinsky, but was acquitted by the Senate on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.

Libby was charged with lying to investigators and a grand jury during an investigation of his role in revealing the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame, wife of an outspoken critic of the war against Iraq.

Most Americans, six in 10, say they do not think the news about Libby's indictment has gotten too much coverage.

The concerns about Libby's case come at a time that a growing number of people, 43 percent, now say U.S. and British leaders were mostly lying when they claimed before the Iraq war that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, while an equal number said they were misinformed by bad intelligence.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20051109/D8DOUI00D.html

[Punkingal]

1. I wish that would shut up the pundits who say no one cares...

but it probably won't.

[electropop]

2. ABC News say 57% believe Bush was lying to trick us into war..

Versus the 43% stated by AP. Of course, the wording of the question is very important.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. I'll have to go reread them now that you said that.

[Marr]

4. Think about this means for a second.

This is a trend they're describing. More people are coming to believe that the Bush Administration lied us into war. They've got 3 years left in office, and the majority *already* believe they lied us into Iraq.

I always thought that conventional wisdom would eventually acknowledge that obvious fact but honestly- I never thought it would be true while they were still in office. And again, this is a trend. More people will come to believe it over time.