Tony Blair and Jose Maria Aznar: US Sycophants Despite European Public Opinion Polls

BRITAIN

A YouGov poll for the Sunday Times on January 26 showed 68 percent of people thought Prime Minister Tony Blair had failed to convince them of the need for war with Iraq. Some 26 percent said they were convinced Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was dangerous enough to necessitate a war.

FRANCE

A CSA Institute poll published on January 23 showed 73 percent of French people were against a U.S.-led attack on Iraq, up from 66 percent in a similar poll two weeks earlier.


GERMANY

An opinion poll by Germany's Forsa institute published a week ago found 69 percent of Germans wanted the country to vote against any U.N. resolution mandating war against Iraq. An Emnid poll in Der Spiegel news magazine showed 72 percent of Germans were against their troops joining any war.


SPAIN

A January poll by right-of-centre newspaper El Mundo found 80 percent of Spaniards opposed the U.S. stance towards war in Iraq while another by a radio station in the same month showed only 6.6 percent thought there were reasons to go to war. No official poll has been carried out since September, when two thirds of Spaniards opposed a war.


ITALY

A poll by Swg published on January 29 showed 72.7 percent of Italians disagreed with a U.S.-led preventative war against Iraq while 18.8 percent said they would support such action.


DENMARK

A Vilstrup Research poll published on January 25 showed 79 percent of Danes would oppose a U.S.-led war without a U.N. mandate while 57 percent would still oppose a war if there was a U.N. mandate.


CZECH REPUBLIC

A poll by the publicly-funded CVVM agency in the Czech Republic on Thursday showed 67 percent were against a war with Iraq and 24 percent of respondents were in favour. The support total falls to 13 percent without a second U.N. resolution while the percentage against the war rises to 76 percent.


HUNGARY

A Gallup poll published on January 27 showed 82 percent of Hungarians opposed military action under any circumstances. The remaining 18 percent said they would support a war but of those, two thirds said that support would be conditional on U.N. approval.


POLAND

A TNS-OBOP survey showed 63 percent of Poles opposed sending troops to join any action against Iraq but 52 percent thought the country should give political backing to the United States for any such action.


PORTUGAL

No official polls were available but an informal survey by Diario Digital showed opinion running almost two to one against Portugal supporting any U.S.-led action.

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