"Hussein Link to 9/11 Lingers in Many Minds" ... well, duh!

[laura888]

In today's Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32862-2003Sep5.html


<snip>
Nearing 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.
</snip>

I'm pissed because I can't find any reference in the article to how the media was complicit in fooling America. :(

Can someone point me to some articles/coverage that shows this? Or what you believe to be evidence of the media's guilt in this? I want to fire off yet another letter to the Post. I'm mad!

thanks, Laura

[Starpass]

1. Wellll, maybe the Dems need to take a clue from this...........

..in other words go out and spread lies, damn lies and even more damn lies about Bush (though telling the truth about him - like AWOL - should suffice). Let's plant things in the Americans minds since they are so damn stupid they would believe they came into this world by being found under a cabbage leaf if someone told them that. In fact, you know, that's why repukes keep screaming. They don't want any legends of Bush - urban or not - to start being washed into the blank minds of mindless America. These people don't deserve a Democracy because democracy means "we the people" have to take the responsibility of knowing what the hell is going on.

[sexybomber]

2. telling the truth SHOULD suffice

but it doesn't seem to be doing that. Desperate times call for desperate measures. If it got W out of the White House in 2004, the ends would certainly justify the means.

[rusty charly]

3. like when the nytimes

just last week (!) with the clueless quilter saying we need to stay in iraq because "no one wants another 9/11"

they don't correct the statement and it ran on the front page BEFORE the article continued inside

this letter was printed yesterday... but i want these statements corrected in the article they run in.



To the Editor:

Re "Backing the Mission in Iraq, but Pondering Its Outcome" (front page, Sept. 3):

You quote Jessica Porter, who is sewing quilts to commemorate Americans killed in Iraq, as saying: "We have to stay there as long as it takes and take care of it once and for all. No one wants another Sept. 11."

Evidently, she, like millions of other Americans, believes the claims and insinuations of the Bush administration and its supporters that Saddam Hussein was somehow responsible for 9/11.

Yet no credible evidence has ever been produced tying the Iraqi tyrant to that atrocity.

It should worry anyone who believes in democracy when propaganda can triumph over reality to the extent that Americans can be led to support a war of conquest enthusiastically on the basis of a still-unsupported link between the chosen enemy and an attack on this country.

ERIC B. LIPPS
Staten Island, Sept. 3, 2003

[laura888]

6. yes, the media does let those remarks slide, don't they?

Its amazing what the media has printed/broadcast with no facts to back them up.

[sattahipdeep]

4. The Kingness of Mad George

Actually, few folks seem upset. Could the American people
really be so stupid as to buy all of this without question?
The Republicans are banking on it. The regents behind
"King George the 43rd" realize that voter apathy and
ignorance are increasingly critical to their neo-conservative
reelection game plan. A majority of Americans polled
mistakenly think that Saddam Hussein was behind the
9/11 attacks.

http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/aug03_madgeorge.shtml

Some believe life on the run has made it impossible for Osama
bin Laden to control and lead Al Qaeda. In Afghanistan’s
Kunar province, people tell a different story

http://www.msnbc.com/news/959544.asp?0bl=-0

No one seems to have a better answer. Two years after
the September 11 attacks, the world’s Most Wanted terrorist
remains free. We don’t know where he is, says U.S. Army
Col. Rodney Davis, spokesman for America’s forces in
Afghanistan. And frankly, it’s not about him.

[Mari333]

5. Americans arent the brightest bulbs in the Cosmic chandelier.