The American people as a whole are stupid.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-09-06-poll-iraq_x.htm
Posted 9/6/2003 8:10 AM
Poll: 70% believe Saddam, 9-11 link
WASHINGTON (AP) â Nearly seven in 10 Americans believe it is likely that ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the Sept. 11 attacks, says a poll out almost two years after the terrorists' strike against this country.
Sixty-nine percent in a Washington Post poll published Saturday said they believe it is likely the Iraqi leader was personally involved in the attacks carried out by al-Qaeda. A majority of Democrats, Republicans and independents believe it's likely Saddam was involved.
The belief in the connection persists even though there has been no proof of a link between the two.
President Bush and members of his administration suggested a link between the two in the months before the war in Iraq. Claims of possible links have never been proven, however.
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Thursday, September 18, 2003
Bush: No Iraq link to 9/11 found
President says Saddam had ties to al-Qaida, but apparently not to attacks
By SCOTT SHEPARD
COX NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON -- President Bush, having repeatedly linked Saddam Hussein to the terrorist organization behind the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, said yesterday there is no evidence that the deposed Iraqi leader had a hand in those attacks, in contrast to the belief of most Americans.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/140133_bushiraq18.html
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Posted 9/16/2003 6:01 PM Updated 9/16/2003 11:14 PM
Rumsfeld sees no link between Saddam Hussein, 9/11
WASHINGTON (AP) â Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Tuesday he had no reason to believe that Iraq's Saddam Hussein had a hand in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.
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No link between Saddam and al-Qaeda
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Monday, September 11, 2006 | 10:15 AM ET
By Henry Champ
It's been a long time coming: the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on what intelligence America's spy agencies were providing the White House and what the Bush administration did with it.
The delay is not with the report's authors, but the Republican majority on the committee. Finally, two Republican senators, Olympia Snowe of Maine and Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, broke ranks and voted with the Democrats to release the findings.
When you read the report you can understand why some wanted to suppress the information.
To begin with, the report says there never was any connection established between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, and that the CIA and other agencies reported that almost immediately after 9/11. Yet the Bush administration frequently used the supposed link as a reason to attack Iraq.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/reportsfromabroad/champblog/2006/09/no_link_between_saddam_and_alq.html