TWO HEADLINES FROM THE HARDBALL BRIEFING:

According to the latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, 58 percent of Americans support sending United States ground troops to Iraq to oust Saddam Hussein from power.

The Bush administration has not convinced Americans or Europeans that a military attack on Iraq is necessary, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jimmy Carter said on Friday. (Reuters)

No wonder Mr. Carter was such an awful President, if he doesn't think 58% of the American people represent majority sentiment.

Posted by Orrin Judd at February 4, 2003 06:33 PM