WASHINGTON (Jan. 24) - The Bush administration is weighing the option of giving U.N. weapons inspectors more time to conduct searches in Iraq as it moves closer to the Europeans' go-slow approach. A decision will be based on whether inspectors report their searches have been productive, a senior U.S. official said Friday. So far, the inspectors have turned up few of the thousands of chemical and biological weapons the Bush administration insists President Saddam Hussein has concealed. The inspectors are due to present their report to the U.N. Security Council on Monday. The Europeans have been calling for giving inspectors more time to search as a way of disarming Iraq peaceably....In the House, 122 Democrats signed a letter to President Bush urging him to give the inspection process more time. The senior Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Carl Levin of Michigan, urged Bush in a letter to share more information with inspectors about weapons sites. Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, a top Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, warned against a ''rush to war in the absence of a strong multilateral coalition.'' ''We must be patient and exercise a mature judgment in our decision that will encourage others to follow and trust our leadership rather than question and turn away from our initiative,'' he said. Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., said, ''We have yet to see any evidence that Saddam still has weapons of mass destruction.''
State of the Union
January 21, 2003
Seven in 10 Americans would give U.N. weapons inspectors more time to pursue their arms search in Iraq, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, underscoring the task President Bush faces rallying the nation in his state of the union next week.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23564-2003Jan21.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/862957.asp?cp1=1
NBC-WSJ Poll: Bush support drops
President's ratings slip on economy, foreign policy, handling of war on terrorism
THE POLL of 1,025 adults, sampled for opinions between Jan. 19 and 21, showed the president's approval numbers moving steadily downward over the past seven weeks.
The data indicate that Americans are increasingly dissatisfied with important aspects of Bush's performance in the Oval Office. The president's overall approval rating slipped to 54 percent, down from December's 62 percent and a dramatic decline from his January 2002 rating of 82 percent....
Thirty-six percent of the respondents said the nation is generally headed in the right direction, a drop from last month's figure of 43 percent and a dramatic drop from January 2002, when 62 percent said the country was moving the right way.
DOWN ON ECONOMY, FOREIGN POLICY
On the economy: 44 percent backed the president's economic approach. That is a major drop since June, when 57 percent gave the president high marks, and an even steeper drop from an approval rating of 63 percent in January 2002. On foreign policy, 51 percent supported Bush's performance, a decline from December's rating of 57 percent and a significant drop from an approval rating of 81 percent a year ago.
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