Better Late than Never: Americans Find Truth
by Charles Coughlin
Today, most Americans realize that Iraq is pretty much a giant pile of rubble where the favorite pastime is shooting at infidels followed by the runner up pastime: shooting at each other.
But that realization took time. Millions of Americans had to have a little “light bulb” of revelation go on over their heads at some point. For a long time, the neocons were dominating North America much as the dinosaurs had once done.
In February 2005, Harris did a poll on Iraq and al Qaeda, their results seem ridiculous -even lunatic- today. Specifically the Harris pollsters claimed:
“88 percent of U.S. adults believe that Saddam Hussein would have made weapons of mass destruction if he could have (down slightly from 90% in November).
76 percent believe that the Iraqis are better off now than they were under Saddam Hussein (same as November).
64 percent believe that history will give the U.S. credit for bringing freedom and democracy to Iraq (up slightly from 63% in November).
64 percent believe that Saddam Hussein had strong links to Al Qaeda (up slightly from 62% in November).
61 percent believe that Iraq, under Saddam Hussein, was a serious threat to U.S. security (down slightly from 63% in November). “
Perhaps the most insultingly dishonest lie by the neocons is that Hussein had “links” to al Qaeda. While the Harris poll had over 60 percent of Americans believing this in November 2004, a recent news article reveals that in September 2006 “in (its) latest poll, Zogby finds that 46% of Americans believe Saddam Hussein was involved in 9-11. Two-thirds of the Republicans polled believe that there is a link.” (more…)