4 in 10 americans believe WMD found in Iraq
 

No wonder Bushes popularity is high, people are basically fucking stupid.

http://pipa.org/whatsnew/html/new_6_04_03.html

Many Americans Unaware WMD Have Not Been Found

Four in Ten Overall

A striking finding in the new PIPA/Knowledge Networks poll is that many Americans are unaware that weapons of mass destruction have not been found in Iraq. While 59% of those polled correctly said the US has not found Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, 41% said they believed that the US has found such weapons (34%) or were unsure (7%).

Steven Kull, director of PIPA, comments: "For some Americans, their desire to support the war may be leading them to screen out information that weapons of mass destruction have not been found. Given the intensive news coverage and high levels of public attention to the topic, this level of misinformation suggests that some Americans may be avoiding having an experience of cognitive dissonance."

"To some extent this misperception can be attributed to repeated headlines that there has been a promising lead in the effort to find evidence of such weapons' headlines that are not counterbalanced by prominent reporting that these leads have not been fruitful. But there is also reason to believe that this misperception may be unconsciously motivated, as the mistaken belief is substantially greater among those who favored the war."

Among those who approved of the decision to go to war and were not just supporting the president (53% of the sample), a majority of 52% said the US has found weapons of mass destruction (48%) or did not know (4%).

Among Republicans who said they follow international affairs very closely -- and thus may also be more exposed to headlines reporting promising leads -- an even larger percentage -- 55% --said weapons have been found, with just 45% saying they have not.

Another widespread misperception is that Iraq actually used chemical or biological weapons in the war. Twenty-two percent held this misperception, with 9% being unsure, while 69% correctly said that Iraq had not used such weapons. However, unlike the question of whether weapons have been found, there is no greater tendency to hold this belief among those who support the war, or are Republicans who follow international affairs closely, than there is in the general population.

The desire to reduce cognitive dissonance may also be skewing some Americans' memory of the government's rationale for going to war. Asked, "Thinking back to when the US government was making the case for going to war with Iraq, according to the government, what was the most important reason for going to war with Iraq?" 60% said "the evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction," and 19% said "the evidence that Iraq was working with the terrorist group al'Qaeda." But 20% said the most important reason was "the fact that Saddam Hussein was an oppressive dictator." Asked for the second most important reason, another 32% chose "the fact that Saddam Hussein was an oppressive dictator," while weapons of mass destruction were chosen by 24% and links to al'Qaeda by 42%.

well they found a ton of chemical suits and antedotes to gasses, but I guess those were just to protect themself from saddams farts.

Imagine that.

9 out of 10 Americans will tell you that Iraq had something to do with 9-11.

Please Yahweh, bring the cleansing.

So obviously you are one of the 4 in 10. Your new name is now 'IQ of a rooster'

The more people bitch about it and throw in conspiracies, the less we care whether they find anything or not.

Just get it over with, so people will shut up about it.

It's not like you can blame the media for this, either. I'd have expected a few, but 40 percent? Damn.

And my favorite


"Among Republicans who said they follow international affairs very closely -- and thus may also be more exposed to headlines reporting promising leads -- an even larger percentage -- 55% --said weapons have been found, with just 45% saying they have not. "

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At least 8 out of every 10 people in the world are dumb as fuck, not just americans.

which 10 americans?

I was in the US army and every single soilder was issued that exact gear. And the suits the US found in Iraqu were made in the US and sold to Sadam by the US when we were busy kissing his ass for killing Iranians for us.

Americans are fucking stupid to believe this total bullshit.

Glad to spend my thousandth post agreeing with this statement. Twas a war of conquest, pure and simple.

blah blah blah.... who fucking cares.

More than 50% of Americans beleived that Iraq was responsible for 9-11.

About the same number of people think that tax cuts for the wealthy will help the economy.

This statistic doesn't surprise me.

This is no surprise reading some of the right winger posts on GFY.

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I belive it but I would say 9 out of 10 are morons aswell..

... I made a post on another forum ( unrelated to websites) and made a simple poll.. asking if Bush should be impeached if it's found out he used misleading info or lied to the american people and the world to sell this war.. I have only had one person out of about 15 agree he should be... most just don't seem to care.. they think it's ok if he lied because sadam needed to taken out... people really need to get a clue.

Idiots dont like to be shown they are idiots.

If they are never found the flag wavers will simply say it didnt matter or that liberation of the Iraqi people was the priority.

As if during the middle of an economic crisis our main priorities are humanitarian goals in countries we dont give two shits about.

Americans are idiots and will believe whatever comes out of the magic idiot box that sits in front of them.

you can prove anything with statistics


















68% of people know that





btw, stfu everyone knows all about the shit that saddamm does/has done and you post gay shit like this. can you say youd rather not see him dead/exiled? of course you would want him to be, anyone who cares about humans would....


we got our reasons, and iran and n. korea should and most likely will be next. get with a winning team....or you'll be on the losing team

Read the post right after yours. :1orglaugh

:)

The dead US and UK soldiers.

The Dead Iraqi's

The US and UK tax payers who will have to pay for this war.

The Pensioners and patients who will suffer from the lack of funds.

Sure there are more.

i dont think the towelheads are as stupid as we think they are

1) if wmd will be found in iraq it will be planted by allied forces..
2) all the WMD which we all know has been developed IS not in Iran....

hello!

both you are fucking losers, al quada HAS been found in iraq...and that was part of it. either way, 5,000 missing barrels of nerve agents etc and defectors giving information....we know what he's up to. nuclear, perhaps not yet/soon (although he does have billions, and hes crazy, so you know hes gotta be trying) but the other shit he does like harboring our enemeies or paying off palestinians familys if they suicide bomb israel, i mean they promote terrorism. we had good cause to do whatever needed to get this thing done, everyone agreed like 10 years ago we had to anyway. so just shutup, you know your just a fucking "oppositionist". its not like YOUR right about anything, but the us government is, we handle problems that are global because we are the global power. thats how it is, and always will be.

Sad but true.

And if the guy at the top controls what comes out of that box.

Welcome to 1984.

Ahahaaa fucking perfect. :1orglaugh

gay, gay

Unfortunately there is a Muslim idiot on the other side with the same mentality. He believes that Israel is a terrorist Stater and the US supports it. He will be recruited by terrorist to "Strike a blow for Islam"

The truth is not important it's what you can make them think that is.

Where I grew up, "grogan" meant "shit".

As a matter of fact, I checked out the scat pages just to make sure it wasnt just some local white trash phrase my friends made up.

Sure enough, grogan means poop.

http://www.manscat.com/winter.php?page=grogan

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From the page he linked to:

Let's make the most
of my beautiful waste!

Since we're together,
we might as well taste!

Would you eat mine?
Could you eat mine?
Won't you eat... my GROGAN!

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these types of threads used to be covered by the Bush throng and their justifications.. now they're down to

"we don't care"

seemed to care a lot before the war, running out of ammo?

Yet another proof that Democracy can only work in an elitist Athenian society. In a country populated by cretinous Average Joes and Sally Soccer-moms, it's a recipe for disaster.

the extreme left likes going thru life with blinders on. 8 years under Clinton of fake economy, zero involvement in world affairs, zero retaliation for several terroist attacks. You want to live in a magic fantasy land where sociallism rules the day and out of sight out of mind is the motto.

Ignoring radical arabs dosent mean they will want to slit ur throat any less.

The right is avoiding these threads because this is about the 50th thread on the same spin. All just mindless bs and baiting.

Al Qeada has been found in the US as well, maybe the States needs some liberating as well then :)

No-one posting in this thread is extreme left. You're just sp damned extreme right that you're attacking moderates from the left-hand side :)

definitely a 4 smiley post.

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When is the last time radical Arabs bombed China or Japan (two countries on-par with the US economically) who are isolationist when it comes to foreign policy?

i wish we were isolationists, all you europe pukes would be speaking german or russian.

I bet you'll find alot more chemical weapons in the US than in Iraq, Iran, Israel together

I think the world would be a safer place if you were isolationist

Let's face it, more like 99.99% people really don't have a clue, and everyone chimes in like they know what the fuck happens around the world at the inner circle level, WMDs and geo-political dynamics included.

This is like ants on a hill talking about life on Mars. Let's not kid ourselves.