From: "Mark" 


"Monte Davis"  wrote in message
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> John Cuccia  wrote:
>
>>The Bushies also created their own intelligence claiming Iraq-AQ
>>links, cynically using the 9/11 attacks to build support for the war.
>
> I've always wondered what Bush supporters made of the January 2003
> Knight-Ridder survey that showed 50% of Americans believing that some
> or all of the 9/11 hijackers had been Iraqi.
>
> The Bush-hating, Saddam-loving Liberal Mainstream Media would hardly
> have wanted to foster that belief... so where had it come from?
>
> It's weird... almost as if influential public figures had spent the
> previous four months in speeches, columns, and talk-show appearances,
> hammering at the same points over and over -- "9/11... danger... Iraq"
> -- so effectively that they overshot the mark.

Being that the Iraq-9/11 connection went *down* from a 78% poll on 9/13/01
(before anyone in the Bush administration said Jack) to your 50% 1/03
reference, I hardly think they were very effective.

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