Nation of morons
Telephone polling of 1002 Americans lays bare the staggering extent of American distaste for facts.
Many adults in the United States think Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction before the start of the coalition effort, according to a poll by Harris Interactive. 50 per cent of respondents believe Saddam Hussein’s regime had such weapons when the U.S. invaded, up 14 points since February 2005.
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72 per cent of respondents believe Iraqis are better off now than they were under Hussein, and 64 per cent think he had strong links with al-Qaeda.
In the midst of a catastrophic civil war, no less than fifty-five percent of respondents “think history will give the U.S. credit for bringing freedom and democracy” to Iraq.
I have given the American people every possible benefit of the doubt over the last six years. That’s not an error I am likely to repeat.
