Polls: More Than 4 in 10 Americans Still Think Saddam Involved in 9/11

[sabra]

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Polls: More Than 4 in 10 Americans Still Think Saddam Involved in 9/11 Attacks

NEW YORK Five years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, better than 4 in 10 Americans still believe that former Iraq leader Saddam Hussein was personally involved in those attacks, according to two recent polls.

An Opinion Research Corporation on behalf of CNN released today on numerous issues surrounding the Iraq war, asked whether Hussein was personally involved in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Fifty-two percent said he was not, but 43% said they believe he was.

This comes despite wide media debunking of this notion for years. At a news conference this past August 21, President Bush was asked if Iraq had anything to do with 9/11 and he said it had "nothing" to do with the attacks. Yet polls show that a majority of Republicans continue to state that Hussein was involved.

A Zogby poll released earlier this week found similar results, with 46% claiming that Iraq was connected to 9/11, again with 2 out of 3 (65%) of Republicans feeling this way.

[Benhurst]

1. This makes perfect sense. Those still cling loyaly to the

Republican Party are brainless, fasicst idiots, who get their "news" from the likes of Rush Limbaugh.

[Double T]

2. Can 40-50% of Americans be that stupid.........

THEY have got to be living in a vacuum.

[BlueEyedSon]

3. i think this is down from 60-70% right around the 2004 election

[musette_sf]

4. and THIS is one of the main points I addressed

in my several emails to ABC about their (hopefully soon to be cancelled) propaganda piece. when you have almost half the country believing the complete lie about Hussein, due only to the fact that it's been catapulted ad infinitum, it is reprehensible for any media organization to catapult more lies.

[DemInDistress]

5. blind "must protect our fuhrer" loyalty.. stupid people abound

on the right. Lied into war in Iraq, treasury raids, massive debt, slashed programs, they'll wake up when its too late.

[maleficentia]

6. Sheeple

[Selatius]

7. Bullshit. The news media failed to debunk Bush

Every other fucking speech he gave mentioned Saddam and 9/11 and Osama over and over again, and none of the news networks launched any concerted campaign to critically examine his words. They simply acted as a megaphone for Bush. The reason why so many people are misled is because they failed.

[Benhurst]

8. Yeah, it's hard to have democracy without a

free press.

[Teaser]

9. where's my beatin' stick?

nt

[bluestateguy]

10. And yet these people are allowed to vote?

Maybe we need to revisit intelligence tests as a qualification for voting.

[Javaman]

11. I was listening to the Majority Report last night

and it was truly amazing. Sam had challenged any mouth breather to call in that still believed this crap. And sure enough, two boobs called in right away and began to spout age old and clearly disproven lies that the admin* fed them connecting Saddam and 9/11. It was amazing. Truly staggering.
And when Sam started railing on them, they would sputter something about F911 having all sorts of inaccuracies, etc. Sam wouldn't back off. Basically saying what does that have to do with 9/11 and Saddam?

mindless parroting mouth breathers.

[KansDem]

12. This will be ABC's target audience for next Sunday and Monday

I wonder how many viewers that will translate to?

[lebkuchen]

19. ya got that right

The Bushies and ABC know how easy it is to manipulate half the population.

[buddhamama]

13. incredible disconnect from reality

on display. oh my goddess. Even Bush slipped and stated yesterday in his press conf. Iraq had no connection to 9/11.

[Jacobin]

15. Propaganda works. Look what it got the German people to do

Look at what its gotten the American people (at least 40 percent) to believe and vote for.

[buddhamama]

17. it is frightening

it truly is. For Propaganda to work though, there generally has to be a smidgen of truth to it, but in this case, there just isn't.

[WinkyDink]

27. Uh, no, there doesn't need to ANY "smidgen" of truth in

propaganda.

[Liberal Dose]

14. UGH! I just can't stand it anymore. My tolerance for ignorance is at zero.

I can no longer summon the energy to be civil towards these people.

:grr: :cry:

[Le Taz Hot]

29. You were able to be civil to these people?

:applause:

[Liberal Dose]

31. Just at work

:D
But no more! :evilgrin:

[greccogirl]

16. I think it's

higher than that.

[VegasWolf]

18. More than 4 out of 10 Americans have < 95 IQs. Go figure. nt

[daleo]

20. If Saddam had something to do with 911, why isn't he on trial in the U.S.?

Do these idiots not realize that if there was the least bit of evidence that Saddam had anything to do with 911 there would be a huge show trial and public execution in the U.S.?

[brentspeak]

21. I find it hard to believe that 2/5 of our nation could be so stupid

Call it a "state of denial", but I'm not buying it.

[Nihil]

24. "United States of Denial"?

:P

[WinkyDink]

28. I taught h.s. Believe it. In a College-prep class of seniors, at least

40% said they believed the Genesis version of Earth's creation.

[Lisa]

22. So Republicans aren't mainstream Americans!

Gee -- after all the times they accused Democrats of being the "fringe", with wildly-different beliefs than the rest of the country!

[RadiDem]

23. 50% think the earth is 6000 YO and god made eve from adam's rib

Same people

Fundies!

[Massachusetts]

25. 4 in 10 Americans Still Think Saddam Involved

A brief digression on the American Voter:

Those "4" Americans have evolved physically to Moderm Man (Homo sapiens). However their complex thinking/rational skills aren't fully developed because they're somewhere in the late Cro Magnon (early Homo sapiens) / Early Modern Man stage of Human Mental Evolution. IMO

If I put it in that context it makes me feel better. Its either Votes or DNA that will make the positive change, and I'm not going to be around long enough for DNA to do it.

[WinkyDink]

26. If for nothing else, Bush ought to be reviled continually by our media

interviewees for WILLFULLY ALLOWING THIS IGNORANCE TO CONTINUE.

I.e., he is DELIBERATLEY misleading Americans, some to their VERY DEATHS.

THAT puts the lie to his "job to protect Americans".

[Jawja]

30. Yes, that's about right.

4 in 10 or 40%. Where *'s approval ratings are.

4 in 10 Americans are either grossly misinformed or have their head up their asses regarding *.

[SoyCat]

32. This is precisely why that "documentary" must be pulled. Once it is out

there and viewed by the American public, all the lies it contains will have become "fact". Americans will not change their minds about something once it is in their heads.