Darling patter

Polling data

Before the war, the U.S. and Britain claimed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. These weapons have not been found. Why do you think they made this claim?

Mostly because they were themselves misinformed by bad intelligence - 41%

Mostly because they lied to provide a reason for invading Iraq - 43%

WMD might still be found - 5%

Don’t know / Refused - 11%

Source: Princeton Survey Research Associates / Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,201 American adults, conducted from Nov. 3 to Nov. 6, 2005. Margin of error is 3.5 per cent.