It’s easy for me to understand why the rest of the world would believe in this ... what’s hard for me to understand is why Americans would believe it.
Actually what’s hard for me to understand is do they REALLY REALLY believe it, or do they just say they do.
If I believed it, I'd be calling for GW's immediate impeachment, removal from office, indictment, conviction and execution.
Most of those who claim to believe this act as if it is only another reason to vote Democratic.
If it were true, which I've seen nothing resembling evidence for, it would mean the President and hundreds to thousands of other American officials are guilty of treason and mass murder. It would not be a political issue, it would be a criminal one.
That's an interesting question. Liberals in the U.S. often say things I know they couldn't possibly believe but they seem to be able to partition their brain and convince themselves the lie is in the common good. That's one aspect. Another aspect is a person can be smart but people can be stupid. As part of a group people can succumb to the lowest common denominator thinking in order to fit into the group. So its possible some just say they believe it.
It's akin to believing in alien abductions or crop circles. They believe it because they want to. They want it to be true so they tell themselves it is.