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Old 06-16-2004, 02:32 PM   #1
shamrock_uk
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Join Date: January 24, 2004
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I just can't refrain from doing a post on American public opinion after watching the news, its almost depressing.

The 9/11 Commission report is finally complete, concluding that Saddam (and Iraq in general) had absolutely nothing to do with the attacks (as indeed most of the world is well aware).

But Channel 4 went out onto the streets in Washington and grabbed random people to ask them (and it really was random, they just grabbed people going about their business). Here is a little selection:

Every one of them believed that Saddam Hussein was behind the September 11th attacks.

One gentlemen said that Saddam had tried to assasinate President Bush(!)

Another lady said that Iraq had to be involved because it was in the Middle-East

All expressed complete amazement when told that he had nothing to do with it.

Perhaps they're not helped by the consistent lies coming out of the White House. Despite the administration going so far as to admit that linking Saddam with Al-Qaida is a 'half-truth', yesterday Dick Cheney did it yet again!

Can anyone remember when Osama bin Laden used to be the most vilified man in the States...has he just been forgotten? The public is fickle...and obviously the White House decided that the American's needed a new enemy to fear...


EDIT:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3812351.stm

Looks like Cheney was contradicting expert CIA advice as well in his comments. Why do you let go your politicians get away with lying through their teeth like this?

[ 06-16-2004, 02:55 PM: Message edited by: shamrock_uk ]
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