From: John Cuccia 

On Sun, 06 Nov 2005 19:46:35 -0500, Monte Davis
 wrote:

>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.

You mean the few Bush supporters that weren't included in that 50%?

>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.

Yep.  They used a veiled threat, repeated endlessly by both official and
unofficial (Fox News) government spokesmen, as well as by the mainstream
media, who breathlessly repeated every assertion the Bushies made, to sell
the idea of war in Iraq.

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