In case you missed it over the weekend:
Hussein Link to 9/11 Lingers in Many MindsNearing the second anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, seven in 10 Americans continue to believe that Iraq's Saddam Hussein had a role in the attacks, even though the Bush administration and congressional investigators say they have no evidence of this.
Part of the 70% is 32-year-old teacher (a teacher for chrissakes!) Kim Morrison:
From what we've heard from the media, it seems like what they feel is that Saddam and the whole al Qaeda thing are connected.
Juan Cole sums things up nicely today:
Although eccentric billionnaire reactionaries like Rupert Murdoch and Richard Mellon Scaife have managed to bamboozle 69% of Americans into believing that Saddam had something to do with September 11, he did not. And any informed person knows he did not.posted by dack
Ignorance is the mother of all the catastrophes...
Posted by: Jack on September 8, 2003 11:19 AMLet's find Kim Morrison and the rest of the 70% and beat the living crap out them.
Posted by: JD on September 8, 2003 06:25 PMThis is what happens when you pay your teachers poorly.
Posted by: Mitch on September 8, 2003 06:59 PMJD: Regarding the Dumb Posse, let's roll. I ain't no pacifist.
Posted by: dack on September 8, 2003 10:13 PMDack, hell yeah! I'm no pacifist either. This crap is absolutely more of a threat to our country than Hussein was (maybe even in the first Gulf war).
Posted by: JD on September 9, 2003 01:44 PMDack, all of that weightlifting has gone to your head. Simmer down before you get hurt.
Posted by: MStooge on September 9, 2003 02:46 PM
What is it about Americans? The one's I know here in Japan seem to have a certain degree of intelligence, but I keep reading these staggering poll results. There must be something in the water.
All you informed Yanks out there - don't give up!
Grab a stranger off the street today, tie him up, and feed him the truth.
Phil
Is this so surprising given that the White House kept insisting that this was the case?
"Saddam Hussein has longstanding, direct and continuing ties to terrorist networks. Senior members of Iraqi intelligence and al Qaeda have met at least eight times since the early 1990s. Iraq has sent bomb-making and document forgery experts to work with al Qaeda. Iraq has also provided al Qaeda with chemical and biological weapons training. And an al Qaeda operative was sent to Iraq several times in the late 1990s for help in acquiring poisons and gases. We also know that Iraq is harboring a terrorist network headed by a senior al Qaeda terrorist planner. This network runs a poison and explosive training camp in northeast Iraq, and many of its leaders are known to be in Baghdad." President Bush Feb 8th 2003
Posted by: Robb on October 6, 2003 12:54 PM