62% Back Ground War to Oust Hussein, Poll Says
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NEW YORK — A poll on the eve of Saturday’s deadline for Iraq showed that 62% of Americans supported a ground war to humiliate Saddam Hussein and reduce his ability to cause future trouble, Newsweek reported. The alternative of letting Hussein save face to avoid a bloody ground war appealed to 30%.
The Gallup organization interviewed a national sample of 768 adults by phone Friday for the poll, the magazine said. The margin of sampling error was 4 percentage points either way.
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