A new poll from Farleigh Dickinson University reveals that a huge portion of the American public, including the majority of self-identified Republicans, wrongly believe US invasion forces “definitely or probably” found WMDs during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Over the course of the protracted occupation, US forces found remnants of Iraq’s known former chemical weapons program, but learned that there was no active weapons program. Overwhelmingly what was “found” was under UN seal, with occasional discoveries of broken, forgotten remnants of the program.
It is disturbing to note that 42% of Americans, 51% of Republicans, and 46% of Independents all believe this long since discredited belief, many years after the Bush Administration, which used WMD as the basis for the entire war, conceded they were wrong.
At the same time, this poll shows a non-trivial hunk of the American public is willing to believe a lot of dubious propositions, with 19% believing President Obama is not a US citizen, and 13% believing that the Secret Service is “intentionally leaving President Obama unprotected.”
Oh yeh… And they sold it on the black market to North Korea! No wonder, if the 42% are asked, they would comfirm that it was sadam Hussein who created ISIS and the Iraq is a planet somewhere close to Baghdad! Don't take me literary, add another 30% you will get the same answer.
This is no surprise, as 75% if Americans are total idiots.
And the same people insist that you are exceptional, and have the right to be leaders of the world!
Most of which are Christian Evangelicals.
Exceptional people ride the short bus.
Still thinking it's the phrase itself. If they'd spoken rigorously of what they were talking about –e.g. "chemical, biological, or radiological" it would've tended to exclude magical thinking from the issue. "WMD" basically means "scary contraband that I get to have but you don't. (or do I repeat myself?)." Not a wonder that authoritarian fools would see "it" everywhere. …and looking up Najibullah Zazi again, looks like Hoover Boyz decided to use it to refer to their own explosives when allegedly given to Michael C. Finton… so said fools don't even mind when it's meaning predictably expanded to include stuff no one ostensibly minded that Iraq had–and really could not have persuaded anyone to 'mind' that another government had.
Main media is pushing the brother of George W. Bush, Jeb Bush to become the next president of the United States. I find this disturbing to note. This website is also highlighting Juan Cole who advocated for invasion of Libya.
42% of Americans have no right to vote. Why should they be allowed to inflict their idiocy on the rest of us.
and: obama was voted the most admired male US citizen with shrillery taking the other half.ry low standards indeed
The same 42% think that state torture and state murder by the US is just fine, as they loudly proclaim their alleged belief in the message of Jesus.
As the Empire continues to disintegrate, the US population will experience much suffering. Well-earned suffering, for sure. Unfortunately the rest of the world will suffer as well…
We are The Exceptional Nation. Exceptionally stupid!
Who is fooling who?
The poll no doubt was taken in a neighborhood of the educated upper half of society, the half that hoards all the wealth. For they need to keep the laboring-class lower half locked in darkness, so in public they always talk for effect.
For do they not all know that if the lower half were to ever be liberated by a living wage, they would be forced to give up half their wealth?
For in Empire USA, as we have plundered a third of all the wealth on earth, not for reasons of economics do all our kids in the lower half suffer want, put for reasons of slavery.
Well, we have the main stream media to thank for this. This is the same media that has 60% of the American public believing that Iran is a "nuclear threat". That's an accomplishment by itself considering Iran doesn't even have a viable and functioning nuclear reactor for generating electricity, let alone nuclear weapons capability. When one considers the ownership of this same main stream media and the fact that they put the welfare of a foreign country above that of their own, these thing are no surprise at all.
> “This is no surprise, as 75% if Americans are total idiots”.
I’m not a USan but comments regarding purported idiocy and stupidity seem far off the mark to me. Rather than a reflection on the general IQ level, it seems to me that this is a reflection of the power of the MSM disinformation brainwashing machine. USans are bombarded with propaganda via the MSM from birth and I believe many are truly shocked to discover that the rest of the world does not see them the way that they see themselves.
The approval of torture is another matter. But this, once again, is not a sin of stupidity. Instead, it speaks to a profound spiritual sickness and moral rot which exists not only in the US, but also in other Western so-called “democracies”.
And they probably pronounce Iran as EYE-ran, and say Noo que lur like the moron Bush.
As if the WMD's would be reason to go to war with Iraq when they had no delivery system nor had they threatened the U.S. with any attack in any event. Just a flimsy excuse.