Most in U.S. Back Strikes, Polls Say
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WASHINGTON — Americans overwhelmingly support President Clinton’s decision to order aerial strikes against Iraq, according to three polls released Thursday.
About three-quarters of adults said they backed the action, polls taken by CBS, ABC and NBC showed. The respective figures were 79%, 73% and 75%.
About 60% of respondents in the NBC poll said Clinton ordered the attack because it was the right thing to do, while fewer than one in three Americans said they believed that the military action was timed to delay impeachment proceedings that had been scheduled to begin Thursday. House debate on that matter is now set to commence today.
So far, the decision to take action against Iraq has not changed public opinion about impeachment.
In the ABC poll, 40% said the House should impeach the president, while 58% said he should not be impeached. Those numbers are essentially unchanged from last week.
All three polls were conducted Wednesday night. ABC interviewed 510 people and NBC polled 503. Both polls’ margin of error is plus or minus 4.5 percentage points. The CBS poll was based on 413 people and had a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.
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