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The public’s perception of the Iraq war correlation with 9-11
I ran across an interesting tidbit of info while looking for something else today on Google – regarding how people came to believe that Iraq was behind 9-11. Popular belief is that only 3% of people surveyed shortly after 9-11 believed that Iraq was behind 9-11, and furthermore that the reason people believed that Iraq had ties to 9-11 were because of how the admin allegedly tried to deliberately blur the lines on the connections between Iraq and Al Qaeda – with AQ of course being the terrorist group behind 9-11:
Polling data show that right after Sept. 11, 2001, when Americans were asked open-ended questions about who was behind the attacks, only 3 percent mentioned Iraq or Hussein. But by January of this year, attitudes had been transformed. In a Knight Ridder poll, 44 percent of Americans reported that either “most” or “some” of the Sept. 11 hijackers were Iraqi citizens. The answer is zero.
That assertion is wrong. Click here to see the poll saved via screencap. (I did a screen cap because the copying/pasting the figures made the poll answers slide all over the post in the wrong place) Note the 9/13/01 numbers.
Interesting, eh? What you see there is actually a slight decline in the belief that SH was involved in any way with 9-11 from the first poll taken 9/13/01 to the one taken in Aug 2003 — and as you know at least a year or so of that time included the President making his case for the removal of Saddam Hussein from power because of his WMDs and ties to terrorists like Al Qaeda.
This info may not be new to some people, but it is to me and I wanted to pass it along to you so you can have it at your disposal the next time someone tries to make the bogus claim that “only 3%” of people believed Saddam was behind 9-11 shortly after the attacks.
Now I just wonder how in the world anyone, so shortly after 9-11, would have thought that Saddam Hussein was behind 9-11? Think it had anything to do with our prior policies towards Iraq in the 1990s? Nah!
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ST,
I hate to say it but no matter what evidence you have to refute a Liberal Democrat, they won’t accept it.
The war in Iraq was sold like any other product, puffed-up and not completely truthfully. When the Christian Conservative and Opus Dei movements in America, partner up with the Zionist movement, in an axis of evil, to push the fear and joy of armageddon, wars can begin and people can be re-elected. What Rove et al accomplished is contemptible. Peace
Steve, be truthful and not bear false witness. Just say surrender instead of peace. The only pease your blatherings will achieve is the peace of the grave.
The war in Iraq was sold like any other product, puffed-up and not completely truthfully. When the Christian Conservative and Opus Dei movements in America, partner up with the Zionist movement, in an axis of evil, to push the fear and joy of armageddon, wars can begin and people can be re-elected. What Rove et al accomplished is contemptible. Peace
Comment by steve @ 11/16/2005 – 3:45 pm
So, you are pro Sadaam and think that he, a murderous despot, who was coy to the WORLD about WMD’s that he did in fact once have and use….should still be in power…….the war with Iraq was never sold…..it never ended in 1991.
Ah, here it is, Steve is onto the inevitable anti-semitic “it’s all the Zionists aka the Jooooos fault” that we are in a war!!!
Steve, you’re a veritable Energizer Bunny of leftist talking points. Is there a single Leftist talking point you haven’t memorized and are able to regurgitate at will?
So, if, as you say, the war was “sold” by blaming things on Hussein, how do you explain the actual decrease in people who believe Hussein was responsible for 9/11? or are the Jooooos manipulating the polls too, as a part of their international Zionist conspiracy?
Steve wrote, “puffed-up and not completely truthfully”
What was puffed up and lied about Steve? Just tell us one lie or puff. We’ll be glad to hear it so we can respond to it. If you don’t know which statement was a lie then just let us know.
Steve spouted bigotry by saying, “When the Christian Conservative and Opus Dei movements in America, partner up with the Zionist movement, in an axis of evil, to push the fear and joy of armageddon,…..
Bigotry is – The attitude, state of mind, or behavior characteristic of a bigot; intolerance
Bigot is – One who is strongly partial to one’s own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.
I have friends who are left of center and Christian and I must say I don’t think of them as evil as you just described people to the right of center who are Christians. That is wrong. Please improve.
I have to admit that I am getting abit tired of being compared to evil by this inside out logic. People who believe that it was good of Sadamn to kill 400,000 of the people he was suppose to govern rightly. Yeah keep throwing stones Steve.
I like the definitions Baklava. Also I thought a person who was lying had to know that they were being untruthful. If you are unaware of what the actual truth is, how can you be lying??
Ohhh and Fat Tone is absolutely right. It was Sadamn who continued to violate the cease fire. He deserved what he got, or is going to get as soon as his trial and hanging are over. – Lorica
Based on what Stephen F. Hayes unsurfaced so far today those titles he showed provide a glimpse of a more potentially insidious agenda that Saddam Hussein had in mind regarding WMDs, Iraq, his government and their connection, dependency and support with the al Qaeda terrorist group, if any at all. “Operation Doha” will need people’s support to help to push this to the front because America demands the truth. Let’s get this “Operation Doha” off and running and soon the liberals will find themselves in their own quagmire of utter lunacy and mass unhinged moments to the detriment of their lying selves about how President Bush lied on WMDs. They ain’t seen nothing yet.
Operation Doha. “Keep saying it.”
Yeah, this is old news, old but good. I caught David Shuster of Hardball pretending that the administration’s supposed plan to make people believe that Saddam was involved in 9/11 “worked”. In fact, as you might now see, the public belief in that notion only fell as time passed. David Shuster cited a CBS poll of 45% right before the war. It’s too bad that the same CBS poll found the public at 51% just half a year earlier…. Read more here: LINK
Excellent post, Seixon – Let the full story come out! I am getting ready to add you to my blogroll.
mcconnell: Indeed!! I think the push is on to release the docs. Bring ‘em on!
Another pereption. Question # 31 in Fox News poll has this:
What do you want U.S. troops in Iraq to do — do you want them to leave
Iraq and come home now or do you want them to stay in Iraq and finish the
job?
Come home – 36%
Finish job – 55%
(Not sure) – 9%
While I wish it was less than 36%, I’d say the leftist Democrats are in the minority on this issue.