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Originally Posted by Elphaba
IIRC, the current percentage of Americans' that still believe there is a link is at a little over 30%, many of those being our soldiers in Iraq.
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Among the questions in a Zogby poll last week:
Do you agree or disagree that there was a connection between Saddam Hussein and the 9/11 terror attacks?
Agree - 46%
Disagree - 50%
http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1169
Its not really surprising to me that nearly half of Americans polled still believe this. While Bush et al have finally adminitted no direct connection or even marginal affiliation between Saddam and al Queda, the rhetoric out of the WHite House, Defense Dept and State Dept. is to continue to describe Iraq as the center of the war on terrorism and our response to 9/11 in the same breath.
The good news is that as more and more of the truth emerges about our invasion of Iraq, a growing number of Americans are recognizing the outright lies, or at the very least, information manipluation, coming out of the White for what it is ...a desperate attempt to defend an indefensible failed policy.