Many Americans STILL Believe Hussein Had Links to al Qaeda (Harris Poll)

[kpete]

THE HARRIS POLL


Many Americans Still Believe
Hussein Had Links to al Qaeda

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE
December 29, 2005

Sizeable minorities of Americans still believe Saddam Hussein had "strong links to al Qaeda," a Harris Interactive poll shows, though the number has fallen substantially this year.

About 22% of U.S. adults believe Mr. Hussein helped plan 9/11, the poll shows, and 26% believe Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when the U.S. invaded. Another 24% believe several of the 9/11 hijackers were Iraqis, according to the online poll of 1,961 adults.

However, all of these beliefs have declined since February of this year, when 64% of those polled believed Mr. Hussein had strong links to al Qaeda and 46% said Mr. Hussein helped plan 9/11. At that time, more than a third said Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and 44% said several of the 9/11 hijackers were Iraqis.

Currently, 56% of adults believe Iraqis are better off now than they were under Mr. Hussein, down from 76% in February. Nearly half of those polled say they believe Iraq, under Mr. Hussein, was a threat to U.S. security, down from 61% in February.

See the full results of the Harris poll:
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB113579153636833083-Xd1XL6NfsXVhzTL0_JKthJ9Wiic_20061229.html?mod=blogs

[B3Nut]

1. Don't need reality

when American Iduhl is on.

Americans are so uninformed and misinformed it isn't funny.

Todd in Beerbratistan

[Tamyrlin79]

5. Hey...but look at the bright side...

those minorities have come down significantly just over the past year. Not perfect, but we ARE making progress in edumacating our fellow citizens.

[PDJane]

2. That's just sad...........

[liveoaktx]

3. VIDEO - PROOF

Demmit, why is there ANYONE that still believes this? Bush has said Saddam is not behind 9/11.

Dodging the question recently

On Jim Lehrer this month

Bush and the 9/11 Commish

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. Yeah, but Faux Snooze didn't report it, so the morans still believe

:spank:

[MN ChimpH8R]

7. Not always

Chimpy may not say they were cooperating, but he often mentions them in the same sentence. Cheney has continued to deny the findings of the 9/11 Commission and every other report pointing out that UBL hated Saddam almost as much as Chimpy and that the feeling was entirely mutual. Saddam had Islamic extremists of the UBL stripe shot or deported, which is one small thing that can be said in favor of Saddam.

[liveoaktx]

8. Understood that's his trick of merging the two and there's plenty

of examples of that. However, because he has said, on record, in one sentence that he has never claimed Saddam had anything to do with 9/11, that's the meat to get pointed out, along with the conflated sentences trick.

[blm]

4. % was so high earlier because media LET BushInc get away with their lies

throughout the election, then acted as if Kerry was wrong when he pointed to the WH lies.