In a Gallup poll taken in early April -- that is , before the release of the Downing Street Memo -- 50 percent of those polled agreed with the proposition that the administration '' deliberately misled the American public '' about Iraq 's W.M.D . In a new Rasmussen poll , 49 percent said that Mr. Bush was more responsible for the war than Saddam Hussein , versus 44 percent who blamed Saddam .