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this is the kind of thinking that makes us so despised in many parts of the world. we want our rights protected but we don't think anyone else's should be protected. "democracy for us, but not for you". is anyone else disturbed by these statistics?

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Wednesday November 28 9:34 PM ET
Americans Favor Military Courts in Terror War

Americans Favor Military Courts in Terror War

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans overwhelmingly support
some of the U.S. government's controversial anti-terrorism
measures including military courts to try suspects and
eavesdropping on prisoner-lawyer conversations, according to a
poll released on Wednesday.
The ABC News/Washington Post poll found 59 percent of those
questioned favor military tribunals to try non-citizens charged
with terrorism and 73 percent support the wiretapping of
conversations between suspects held on terrorism charges and
their lawyers.
The survey also found 78 percent of Americans would support
military action against Iraq to force President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites )
from power. Political analysts regard Iraq as a possible next
target in President Bush (news - web sites )'s war on terrorism after the current
U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan (news - web sites ).
The telephone poll, conducted on Nov. 27, surveyed 759
adults and has a 3.5 percentage point margin of error.
The Bush administration's anti-terror measures after the
Sept. 11 passenger jet assaults on the World Trade Center and
Pentagon (news - web sites ) have come under fire from some lawmakers and civil
libertarians who question whether Americans are ceding
cherished freedoms.
Two weeks ago, Bush declared an ``extraordinary emergency''
that permits him to order military trials for suspected
terrorists arrested in the United States or abroad. Defendants
could be tried in secret and convicted on a two-thirds majority
vote, both contrary to normal U.S. judicial procedure.
The government has also said it has jailed some 600 people
since the attacks, many on immigration violations, and wants to
interview about 5,000 people of Middle Eastern origin.
The survey found 79 percent supported efforts to interview
young Middle Eastern men despite complaints the campaign
amounted to unfair profiling on the basis of national origin.
The Bush administration says the Sept. 11 hijackers, who killed
about 3,900 people, were of Middle East origin.
Eighty-six percent said the government's detentions since
Sept. 11 are justified.
The poll also found 91 percent favor the U.S. military
action in Afghanistan -- launched in response to the plane
attacks -- and Bush continues to enjoy strong support, with 89
percent approval of his job performance.
Eighty-one percent of those surveyed said they would
support military action against other countries that assist or
shelter terrorists.

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