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Letter: Election was not a Bush mandate

Thursday, Jan. 27, 2005 | 8:49 a.m.

President Bush likes to have it both ways. After the election his people were trumpeting the exit polls that said 22 percent of the people who voted for him voted on "moral values."

That means that of the 60 million people who voted for him, 13 million were concerned with moral values. In total that means that 47 million voted for other reasons. Now he is saying that because he was re-elected the voters ratified his Iraq war policy.

John Kerry garnered 57 million votes, most from people who were opposed to Bush's Iraq war.

Where in these numbers can Bush claim a mandate or a ratification of his war on the Iraqi people?

JAMES J. POUPARD

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