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Date Posted: 12:40:33 06/08/15 Mon
Author: 12
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Subject: Re: and women...
In reply to: Ed Cohen 's message, "and women..." on 09:21:33 03/31/03 Mon

>You sure that "Veritas" handle suits you???
>
>Poll: Women, Support Sending Troops to Iraq
>
>September 19, 2002 -- There is no gender gap over
>going to war with Iraq, a CNN/Gallup Poll shows. In
>the past, women have been more reluctant than men to
>send American forces into combat overseas.
>
>But the latest poll shows that 58% of women support
>using ground troops to oust Saddam Hussein from power,
>compared with 56% of men.
>
>In contrast, a Gallup Poll taken one week before the
>Persian Gulf War began in January 1991 found that 67%
>of men supported an attack, but only 45% of women did.
>
>"Typically, any use of force has triggered an age-old
>gender gap," says Susan Howell, a University of New
>Orleans political scientist.
>
>Analysts offer several possible explanations for why
>women are more supportive of war than they have been
>in the past:
>Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, women have
>become more wary of the country's vulnerability to
>further terrorism and fearful about the safety of
>their children. The poll shows that 66% of women
>between the ages of 18 and 49 � those more likely to
>have children at home � support going to war. Only 48%
>of women 50 and over support a war.
>
>The possibility of chemical, biological or nuclear
>weapons being unleashed in the USA creates a threat
>women had not been concerned about in previous wars.
>The poll shows that 75% of women believe Saddam will
>use weapons of mass destruction against the United
>States if he is not stopped, compared with 68% of men.
>
>The Sept. 11 anniversary has heightened women's
>concerns about terrorism.
>
>The last few wars have had few U.S. casualties. As a
>result, women might be led into thinking the risks are
>not as great.
>
>The Bush administration's use of national security
>adviser Condoleezza Rice to help make the public case
>against Saddam might be striking a chord with women.
>
>Bush, through his "compassionate conservatism" on
>domestic issues and leadership in foreign policy since
>Sept. 11, has established trust among women that makes
>his arguments more credible.
>
>"Women have come to a certain comfort level with Bush.
>They see him as sincere," says Karlyn Bowman, polling
>analyst at the American Enterprise Institute.
>
>Democratic pollster Celinda Lake adds that Bush's
>arguments for going to war against Iraq, framed in
>terms of doing it "for the sake of our children,"
>might be more convincing to women.
>
>"Women usually pay less attention to foreign policy
>than men, but when it comes to terrorism, they are
>paying more attention," Lake says.
>
>Howell notes that Bush's argument for "going to war to
>create peace" by disarming a threat to the United
>States is different from a situation such as the
>Vietnam War. Then, troops fought an enemy with a
>different political ideology.
>
>"Saying we are using weapons to get rid of worse
>weapons is a different way of putting it that could
>have more appeal," Howell says.
>
>Teresa Cook, 48, a mother of three and grandmother of
>four who babysits in her home in Germanton, N.C., says
>her willingness to support a war with Iraq is based on
>her concern for the children.
>
>"If Saddam gets hold of a rocket and shoots some of
>those biological weapons over here, it could be real
>bad. We've got to stop him," she says.
>
>April Ingram, 28, a retail clerk in Colerain Township,
>Ohio, has no children, but she also supports sending
>U.S. troops to Iraq.
>
>"I worry about the troops who will have to go there,
>but we've got to do whatever it takes," she says.
>"Saddam is an evil guy."
>
>The Sept. 13-16 poll of 803 adults has an error margin
>of +/-4 percentage points.

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