Today's Excite poll - 54% believe Saddam-al Qaida link

[trogdor]

This scares the shit out of me. Are Americans really that stupid? Apparently we are.

Yesterday, the commission investigating the September 11 attacks reported that there was "no credible evidence" that Saddam Hussein had ties with al-Qaida. The Bush administration has long claimed links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida, and cited these links as one reason for last year's invasion of Iraq. (AP)

Do you think Saddam Hussein had ties to al-Qaida?

Yes 54% => 3985 votes

No 39% => 2890 votes

I'm not sure 5% => 401 votes

I don't care 1% => 85 votes
Current number of voters: 7361

Here's the link to the poll. I think you have to be a registered user to participate.
http://poll.excite.com/poll/home.jsp?cat_id=1

[sniffa]

1. it's a freeped poLL

besides, everyone knows american stupidity is around 70%.

[trogdor]

8. I doubt it.

I'm pretty sure you need to be a registered Excite user to participate, thus, Excite polls don't lend themselves well to freeping.

[sniffa]

12. because it's awfuLLy hard

to register with excite. aLthough excite is a LiberaL company so maybe you're right.

[Zomby Woof]

15. excite polls are always right-leaning

I am a registered user, but I know that they can be freeped. They don't care how many times you vote. So lots of frothing assholes are freeping the poll.

[livetohike]

2. Lynn Cullen is talking about it right now

not this particular poll, but the fact that 50% of Anericans still believe this.

[NeonLX]

3. No surprise

1. Cheney keeps lying about it.

2. The media aren't doing their jobs.

3. There are lots of morans out there.

[Ishoutandscream]

7. Yes. Crashcart keeps saying it over and over again, so it must be true

I call it the Goebbel's doctrine. Say it over and over again, and the public will buy it. Good ol' Nazi strategy.

[Hutzpa]

18. Well Said!

people still relying on these freepers polls.

Me :think: The truth is out there.

[Wickerman]

4. What scares me is that anyone actually uses excite

Yes, the numbers are appalling - but so is the tolerance of the American people. As Mr. Pitt said so well in his recent TruthOut column, we need to look past 9-11 and really consider if we would tolerate any of what Bush* has done in a "typical" world. None of it would pass the smell test and we need to hammer that home to those who get their news from Leno and Rush and the other asswipes.

[trogdor]

9. I prefer it to Yahoo.

I don't know why. The poll questions are usually pretty stilted. This one was unusually straightforward. I should post the Excite poll questions on GD every day so people can see what I mean.

[Wickerman]

13. Sounds painful

I use Google, that is about it. I don't even bother with dogpile anymore.

[0007]

17. I buy these poll number from cnn before I will from that phoney site

and as you know the White House and cnn are connected at the hip. Look at how many votes were cast compared to AOL and that other shit head.

Do you think al Qaeda and Iraq cooperated to attack the U.S. on 9/11?

Yes 31% 52956 votes

No 69% 117078 votes

[Zomby Woof]

16. it is better than Yahoo

Yahoo is full of its own hype. It's more marketing than substance. Excite has the best homepage customizing in terms of news, weather, and information. Their polls suck, but then again, what online polls do not?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

5. It's the 'Giant Conspiracy of International Badness' theory

Many people seem to think that if one group of people from a specific race is committing crimes and another group of people from the same race is also committing crimes, there has to be some connection. Lazy, quasi-racist thinking, but there you go.

[Loonman]

6. So 54% of 7361 poll takers

Are misinformed fools.

[0007]

19. Yes, and all members of that looney right wing crowd

[Used and Abused]

10. well, they HAVE to believe in the link, for their own sanity!

Otherwise they'll be forced to face that fact that Bush lied and thousands died!

[RebelOne]

11. AOL has the same poll and 50-some percent

also said yes. I can't believe that people are so brainwashed.

[0007]

20. Anyone that does business with AOL can't be too smart, even for 'free'

[RebelOne]

21. Excuse me, but I am an AOL-user.

And I am far from dumb. It's just too much of a hassle to change my e-mail address.

[0007]

22. Hope you have a good fire wall

[seabeyond]

14. may scare shit out of you but dropped 20% so a yea for me

funny the way we see things