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To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (90857)	12/8/2004 5:16:03 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Yes- I know what sorts of questions those "stupid folks" were asked (I should have said ignorant- who knows how stupid they are, really. But ignorant- yup, that they are). How do I know this? Lots of articles out there on the polls and what was asked. Here's just ONE, and it's from the Christian Science Monitor- so maybe you'll be able to read it without getting a rash: in this poll respondents were asked if Saddam was "personally involved" in 9/11..... "A New York Times/CBS poll this week shows that 45 percent of Americans believe Mr. Hussein was "personally involved" in Sept. 11, about the same figure as a month ago." csmonitor.com There are a bunch of articles detailing the kinds of questions that have been asked, and the stupid answers that are given. I am sure ignorant people everywhere can be cheered knowing (or probably not knowing) they have you in their corner.

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (90857)	12/8/2004 5:22:19 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

In an earlier poll taken in September 2002, Retro Poll found that 43% of those giving their opinion believed that Iraq and Saddam Hussein worked with the Al Qaeda terrorists although a suppressed CIA report and the UN had found no such evidence. The current poll asked a slightly different question: whether there is "evidence that Saddam Hussein worked with the 9-11 terrorists;" 40% said yes and 36% no. Since September, government officials and media pundits have logged hundreds of appearances to bolster this contrived connection. Yet, no hard evidence to contradict the CIA report has been published. There is a powerful correlation (p=.005) between knowledge on this issue and rejection of war. In the previous poll, people who said there is no evidence of a link between Saddam and Al Qaeda were 4:1 against war while those who said there was evidence were 2:1 for the war. In the current poll the same correlation remains significant. Those who think there is clear evidence are 2.2:1 for the war, and those who challenge this assertion remain opposed (although now at 60% against war compared with 80% in the earlier poll). retropoll.org

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (90857)	12/8/2004 5:25:00 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

open ended questions- where the respondents supply their own answer: Polling data show that right after Sept. 11, 2001, when Americans were asked open-ended questions about who was behind the attacks, only 3 percent mentioned Iraq or Hussein. But by January of this year, attitudes had been transformed. In a Knight Ridder poll, 44 percent of Americans reported that either "most" or "some" of the Sept. 11 hijackers were Iraqi citizens. The answer is zero. globalpolicy.org