Poll Shows American Idiocy

The Harris Poll released results from its latest survey of beliefs and attitudes about Iraq. It illustrates an alrming idiocy on the part of Americans along with revelation about the success of George Bush's brainwashing before the onset of that war. We all know there were NO wmd's in Iraq. We know Bush knew that six months before he began that war. We know there were no connections between Iraq and Al Qaeda. How then do you explain these numbers? Well, we'll get to that.

U.S. adults believe that the following are true about the war in Iraq:

• Seventy-two percent believe that the Iraqis are better off now than they were under Saddam Hussein (slightly down from February 2005 when 76 percent said this was true).
• Just over half (55%) think history will give the U.S. credit for bringing freedom and democracy to Iraq (down substantially from 64% in February 2005).
• Sixty-four percent say it is true that Saddam Hussein had strong links to Al Qaeda (the same as 64% in February 2005).

Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when the U.S. invaded

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The figure showing 50% now believing Saddam had wmd's is obviously the result of Rick Santorum's insane media show recently when he claimed we'd found 500 wmd's. Folks, those weren't the weapons of mass destruction Bush said Iraq possessed. What's more President Bush knew those and ALL OTHER wmd's Iraq had were destroyed in 1991 (see the Iraq War Forum storied below). Santorum knows this but staged an elaborate hoax in an attempt to jump start his failing re-election effort.

One hundred Iraqis are being killed daily just in Baghdad in sectarian civil war. Prime Minister Maliki doesn't rule or control anything beyond the Green Zone of the capital. Turkey is treatening to invade the Kurdish region and the Shias are ruling the southern third of the country through strict Sharia law and their own militias. There is no government, no law and order, no security in Iraq. Anyone who continues believing the fantasy that things were not better under Saddam should go live in Baghdad for a week. That's all it'll take assuming they survive.

As for this continued brainwashing about Iraq being "the central front on the war on terror" and Saddam being responsible for 9/11, that's absolute brainwashing by the White House. They adopted the old Nazi strategy that the bigger the lie the more likely people will be to believe it. After all, the rationale goes, no one would make up such a monstrous lie like that would they? Yup, it happens. George W. Bush is a master at this, uttering the name of Saddam Hussein in his next breath after talking about the tragedies of September 11th. He's brilliant at this tactic. I've watched him do so repeatedly. No one can say he definitively says Saddam did 9/11 but he instills that belief in American's minds constantly with this method. The result is that people think we're in Iraq to avenge Sept. 11th. There should be a special place in hell reserved for President Bush.

Another reason for these poll results is the American media. If one really wants to discover what's going on in Iraq you need to read and listen to sources like the BBC. You need to visit websites that provide comprehensive coverage. You also need to visit Arab media and understand how our atrocities are feeding increased hatred against us everywhere from Beirut to Baghdad and then to every Muslim community around the globe. Americans are blissfully ignorant about all this and this poll illustrates that point. Americans won't awaken to the long term influences of these lies until we suffer more 9/11's. I fear we'll have many.