The Stupid:Three of Four Bush Supporters Still Believe in Iraqi WMD, al Qaeda Tieshttp://www.globalexchange.org/countries/iraq/2613.htmlAnd WHY are so many so Stupid?In Iraq Crisis, Networks Are Megaphones for Official Views Among the major findings in a two-week study (1/30/03=2/12/03) of on-camera network news sources quoted on Iraq:
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Seventy-six percent of all sources were current or former officials, leaving little room for independent and grassroots views. Similarly, 75 percent of U.S. sources (199/267) were current or former officials.
-At a time when 61 percent of U.S. respondents were telling pollsters that more time was needed for diplomacy and inspections (2/6/03),
only 6 percent of U.S. sources on the four networks were skeptics regarding the need for war.
-Sources affiliated with anti-war activism were nearly non-existent. On the four networks combined, just three of 393 sources were identified as being affiliated with anti-war activism-- less than 1 percent. Just one of 267 U.S. sources was affiliated with anti-war activism-- less than half a percent.
More than two-thirds (267 out of 393) of the guests featured were from the United States. Of the U.S. guests, a striking 75 percent (199) were either current or former government or military officials.
Only one of the official U.S. sources expressed skepticism or opposition to the war. http://www.fair.org/reports/iraq-sources.htmlStudy: Misperceptions About Iraq War Contributed to Support For ItA majority of Americans have held at least one of three mistaken impressions about the U.S.-led war in Iraq, according to a new study released Thursday, and those misperceptions contributed to much of the popular support for the war.
The three common mistaken impressions are that: -U.S. forces found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
-There's clear evidence that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein worked closely with the Sept. 11 terrorists.
-People in foreign countries generally either backed the U.S.-led war or were evenly split between supporting and opposing it.
In fact, no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq. U.S. intelligence has found no clear evidence that Saddam was working closely with al-Qaida or was involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Gallup polls found large majorities opposed to the war in most countries. http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1003-08.htmONE MORE TIME for the stupid freeping rightwingnuts; Iraq had NOTHING TO DO with 911; Iraq had NO WMD since 1991 (and your bush-god has admitted this publicly, you ignorant morons) Iraq had NO TIES to al Qaeda or any other international terrorist organization; the world DID NOT and DOES NOT support bush's invasion of Iraq.So PLEASE dear freepingly stupid rightwingnuts; inform yourselves, and THEN do your goose-stepping brownshirting bush-apologist rhetoric, using FACTS as your base of argument.
It's DAMNED DIFFICULT to do anything but laugh at you morons when you go on about Iraq's "wmd" and "threat" and "world support".