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Kristol and Kagan falsely claimed exit polls showed public evenly split on "pullout from Iraq"
In their column for the December 11 issue of The Weekly Standard, editor William Kristol and contributing editor Robert Kagan wrote that they "were struck by exit polls [from the midterm election] that showed the public was equally concerned with a too-precipitous pullout from Iraq, suggesting the American people know quite well what is at stake in the war there." In fact, the national exit poll conducted for the Associated Press and the leading broadcast and cable news organizations found that a majority of "the American public" was in favor of withdrawing troops from Iraq.
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