A Long Hallucination of War

As TV broadcasts battle preparations, Americans ponder the moral case for war

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Being the Commander in Chief in a democracy is one of the dangerous mysteries of American leadership, as Lyndon Johnson found out. Unless George Bush, a President with some royalist tendencies, learns to fear that mystery, it might destroy him.

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CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 1,000 adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN on Nov. 27-28 by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. Sampling error is plus or minus 3%. "Not sures" omitted.

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