Posted on 08/19/2007 5:45:21 AM PDT by Simon Bank
Many Americans have lingering confusion about Iraq's role in the 9/11 attacks, a new Newsweek study reveals.
For its "What You Need to Know" cover story, Newsweek found troubling gaps in knowledge of the 1,001 adult Americans who participated in a poll to test their knowledge of politics, foreign affairs, business, technology and popular culture. As the poll summary reports: "The results were mixed, to be charitible."
Even today, more than four years into the war in Iraq, as many as four in 10 Americans (41 percent) still believe Saddam Hussein’s regime was directly involved in financing, planning or carrying out the terrorist attacks on 9/11, even though no evidence has surfaced to support a connection. A majority of Americans were similarly unable to pick Saudi Arabia in a multiple-choice question about the country where most of the 9/11 hijackers were born. Just 43 percent got it right—and a full 20 percent thought most came from Iraq.
Still, seven in 10 (70 percent) are aware that the United States has not discovered any hidden weapons of mass destruction in Iraq since the war began. And perhaps because most (85 percent) are aware that Osama bin Laden remains at large, roughly half of the poll’s respondents (52 percent) think that the United States is losing the fight against his terror group, Al Qaeda, despite no military defeats or recent terrorist attacks to suggest as much.
Here in Sweden there is much doubt whether the war in Iraq is about Al-Qaeda. It´s almost hopeless to be one of the good guys in this socialist country.
Most of the politicians say the war in Iraq is a misstake and they think a better solution is to attack the country that is behind 9/11.
Swedish politicians often talk about wahabism as a problem. I don´t think wahabism is the problem. I do believe Saddam was responsible for 9/11 but my socialist country doesn't share my views.
It just goes to prove that 41% of Americans are morons.
Wahabism is a major part of the problem... Islam is the rest of it.
ML/NJ
I don't but he still needed to be gone....so get over it.
But I think the irony is that President Bush never said he was. The Republicans have never emphasized his role in 9/11, just his role and ability in other terrorist activities.
So why do 41% of Americans associate Saddam with 9/11? It's because the Democrats talk about it so much.
Sadam might not have been directly involved in
9/11, but you can be sure he was helping orchestrate
terror against the U.S.
-and how do you KNOW it isn't just you? ;^)
While I don’t think he planned it I have very little trouble believing that he would have done anything he could to help it along.
Sadamm was a terrorist supporting dictator who probably did not have direct involvement in 9/11, but still supported terrorism. There were a lot of reasons to get rid of Saddam prior to 9/11, the war on terror put the nail in the coffin.
Exactly, but the media tries to plant words in their mouths so they can call them liars. It worked well with the 'imminent threat' deal, and Chenney fell for it. The Bush administration did not use those words for the case for war, but months after the fact the media got Chenney to repeat those words in an interview and it became the central point in the 'Bush lied' mantra.
2). We have found WMDs in Iraq, and they have been used for very small attacks against our troops.
Newbie, if you're trying to get Freepers to agree, you won't. Saddam supported terrorism in general but had no apparent direct links to 9/11.
Oh, and welcome to FR.
Even under Bill Clinton, the U.S. government's position had always been that terrorist groups needed a state sponsor to be able to pull off really large and complex attacks like 9/11. Yet suddenly this doctrine disappears after 9/11. Why? Do people really believe that 19 hijackers were trained and this entire plot funded and managed out of some cave in Afghanistan? That is what is moronic, if you ask me.
Welcome to FR.
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And I forgot to add that Iraq’s fingerprints were all over the first WTC attack in 1993. Read Laurie Mylroie’s writings about this and you might change your mind about Iraq’s involvement in 9/11.
True, what you said.
What purpose DID Salman Pak serve exactly? A grounded, empty airliner?
Salman Pak was a very large facility to train fedahyeen, and terrorists from all over the world. Remember, Saddam paid the Pali suicide/homicide bombers' families $25K per kill. Ramsey Usef received all of his training (i.e. explosives, etc.) there. Usef carried an Iraqi passport, as did his co-conspirators.
When the U.S. military took Salman Pak, they killed all kinds of hajis (e.g. Syrian, Saudi, Yemeni, etc.).
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The deterrent effect of dethroning, trying, and executing Saddam Hussein cannot be understated.
The War in Iraq won't kill off all (1 billion+) potential terrorists. That was never the intent. But it's a less than subtle reminder to other despots that we mean business, and we will strike back when hit.
Before I say the 41% are misinformed, I want to see the exact question they were asked. It’s not like Newsweek hasn’t been known to distort the truth or even lie about it.
Was it just a coincidence that all the attacks on us ended as soon as W put Saddam out of the terrorism business?
Have you tried “prewardocs” on the top of your page yet?
It’s only natural for socialists to side with Saddam as he too was a socialist.
Saddam Hussein is gone but can we win the war? The mastermind behind 9/11 is now rottening in hell. Here in Sweden there is much doubt whether the war in Iraq is about Al-Qaeda. It´s almost hopeless to be one of the good guys in this socialist country. Most of the politicians say the war in Iraq is a misstake and they think a better solution is to attack the country that is behind 9/11. Swedish politicians often talk about wahabism as a problem. I don´t think wahabism is the problem. I do believe Saddam was responsible for 9/11 but my socialist country doesn't share my views.
Write that in Swedish please.
The fact that 100% of all humans that start our on mothers milk eventually die suggests that it might be fatal, but I still don’t believe it true.
Saddam Hussein is gone but can we win the war?
We did win the war Iraq is just like the street of Philadelphia.
More like assholes.
And just what we need is a newbie posting something controversial and getting us labeled not only a hate site but a conspiracy site too.
It isn't widely remembered that Saddam and Osama had ties. Who in the public remembers this? No one.
1999 VIDEO: ABC News Report Linking Saddam Hussein And Osama Bin Laden
His first and only post and you want his second to "out" him? ;)
Because Osama was far too smart to cast hit lot with the ego maniacal Saddam on the most important terrorist attack in history. Anything is possible, but there’s no real evidence that it happened and less reason to think that it might have.
Now THAT was a Freudian typo.
I believe my post said getting us labeled not only a hate site but a conspiracy site
Czech intelligence stands by their story that mohammed atta met with Iraqi intelligence in Prague. This meeting is dismissed by the CIA, the same intelligence organization that failed to see 9/11 coming and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
We did find wmd and prohibited programs in Iraq according to both the Duelfer and Kay reports. Gen. Georges Sada states that he knows the pilots that ferried chemical weapons to Syria. Let's not forget the truck convoys out of Iraq in the run up to the war. We also found yellowcake and enriched uranium, some of which we knew about, parts and plans for enrichment centrifuges and plans for nuclear weapons. Iraqi scientists stated that production would resume when the sanctions, gutted by Oil for Food, were lifted.
Zarqawi and many al-queda were given sanctuary in Iraq during the Afghan war. Funny that Obama wants to attack Pakistan, an ally, for harboring al-queda but says we shouldn't have attacked Iraq, an enemy, for doing the same.
IAN SCHWARTZ has the video of Christopher Hitchens berating Ron Reagan on MSNBC.
here's a transcript of the heart of Hitchen's rant:Excuse me. When I went to interview Abu Nidal, then the most wanted terrorist in the world, in Baghdad, he was operating out of an Iraqi government office. He was an arm of the Iraqi State, while being the most wanted man in the world. The same is true of the shelter and safe house offered by the Iraqi government, to the murderers of Leon Klinghoffer, and to Mr. Yasin, who mixed the chemicals for the World Trade Center bombing in 1993. How can you know so little about this, and be occupying a chair at the time that you do?
Obviously, Ron doesn't want to hear things that might challenge his world view.
How could Hitch be so insensitive?
http://www.indepundit.com/archive2/2005/07/in_case_you_mis.html
We went to war in Iraq because Saddam was responsible for 9/11?
AMERICANS ARE INTELLIGENT PEOPLE, NOT EASY TO FOOL :
WATCH THE VIDEOS
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1sx7x_saddams-secrets_news
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwD3DCiIpO8&eurl=
“You can be sure that Iraq was behind 9/11—and the anthrax letters that followed.” Laurie Mylroie, former adviser of President Clinton on Iraq, May 30, 2007
“Here, over a year ahead of time [On July 21, 2001]in the open press in Iraq [Baathist paper Al-Nasiriya], they are writing that this man [Bin Laden]is planning not only to bomb the White House, but where they are already hurting, the World Trade Towers.” Senator Hollings, speech about the early warning that could have prevented 9/11, US congress, 2002
THE REASON OF THE STRIKES OF 9/11 :
PRESIDENT GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH, SEPTEMBER 11, 1990 :
US Congress speech :
“We gather tonight, witness to events in the Persian Gulf as significant as they are tragic. In the early morning hours of August 2nd, following negotiations and promises by Iraq’s dictator Saddam Hussein not to use force, a powerful Iraqi army invaded its trusting and much weaker neighbor, Kuwait. Within three days, 120,000 Iraqi troops with 850 tanks had poured into Kuwait and moved south to threaten Saudi Arabia. It was then that I decided to check that aggression.”
http://www.cryan.com/war/speech/
Saddam was working with Dick Cheney and Karl Rove, Bush was too stupid to realize that the neo cons worked with Saddam and the Bildeburgers, I think the KKK was also in on it, someone had to blow up the buildings at the same time that the fake airplanes were sent into the buildings . ...check out Rosie O’Donell she knows all the stuff
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