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02/07/2003 Entry: "Iraq poll"
I can't make up my mind what this means. Either over a year's worth of media saturation has failed to give the American public any useful information, or else opinion has been skilfully and cynically manipulated. A poll on behalf of the Knight Ridder company asked 1204 American citizens the following questions and got the answers shown
"Please try to answer my next questions about Iraq to the best of your knowledge. But if you're not sure of an answer, that's okay -- just tell me and I'll go to the next question. Do you think Iraq and Al Queda -- Osama bin Laden's organization -- are allied and working together to plan new acts of terrorism, or not?"Whereas, of course, there is no apparent link between Al Queda and Iraq, and none of the 9-11 hijackers were Iraqi. What's going on here?Are allied 65%Are not 16%Don't know 19%
"As far as you know, how many of the September 11th terrorist hijackers were Iraqi citizens: most of them, some of them, just one, or none?"
Most of them 21%Some of them 23%Just one 6%None 17%Don't know 33%
(Thanks to Bene Diction for pointing this out, BoingBoing for a bit more detail and David Lawrence for the direct link to the results.)
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What's going on here (I think) is a combination of wishful thinking on the part of pro-war pollsters and continued ignorance on the part of the general public here in the US.
Posted by Ivan The Crank @ 02/08/2003 12:04 AM CST
