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I think the liberal media is going to have to re-evaluate their investigative skills. Or better yet...just stop ignoring the obvious, in an attempt to advance a partisan, political agenda. When I read liberal "studies" that attempt to infer some sort of campaign to misinform Americans by Foxnews (and right-wing print media), I have to wonder just who it really is that is runnning a misinformation campaign.

Foxnews and Republicans never attributed a direct connection to Saddam and 9/11...although some peripheral evidence did exist. Most of these attributions had to do with Saddam's ongoing ties to terrorist networks, like AQ. For these people to claim this as misinformation, when even many of their own reporters made such claims as far back as 1998, is a blatant lie...and disinformation, in itself. Looking at this story (below) from a couple months ago...and seeing what is happening today, it is obvious who is doing the misinforming. And even if the media's defense is that these stories haven't been corroborated, that too, is a lie, as this media has gone to print with virtually every rumor that adversely effects this war and the Bush administration.

"Misinformed America: What we don't know could hurt us all"

"We take pride in being a democracy. But a democracy is only as good as the choices of its voters. A recent study by the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) revealed some disturbing facts about how misinformed many Americans are, and how that affects our country.

The PIPA group looked at how accurately Americans responded on key questions about Iraq involving terrorist links, weapons of mass destruction and global support for invasion. It then compared where the respondents got their news, and their level of support for both the war and President Bush.

The research showed that the more misperceptions a person held, the greater was their likelihood to support the war or the president's choices. For example, only 23 percent of the people who were accurately informed about Iraq supported a unilateral war, compared with 86 percent of those with misperceptions on all key facts. Even a couple of common misperceptions can alter major national policies that affect our economy, our freedoms and more.

The study then looked at where the respondents got their news. NPR/PBS had the best record with only 23 percent of their audiences having one or more wrong perceptions. At the other end of the spectrum was Fox News, with 80 percent of its audience having at least one misperception. Tragically, the most common one was that Saddam Hussein was linked to al-Qaida and 9-11. In between NPR/PBS and Fox came (in order from best to worse results) print media, then CNN, then the network channels."

Just who in the hell are these people to label someone's "misconceptions" as wrong when those so-called misconceptions may have been right all along? We're still in the middle of a war, developing new leads and evidence everyday...which means information is fluid. Where is this study's evaluation of those liberal networks that got everything wrong, from the (under)size of the military to the unequipped supply-lines to the sand-strom quagmire...to even the body counts? Was that misinformation, because if so, Foxnews was the only one who got it right. Is Tom Brokaw and NBC now a part of the misinformation campaign, ala Foxnews....or is he finally reporting on a story that has long had legs?

The terrorist ties between Saddam and AQ have been well documented from as far back as 1998 (some as far as 1993)...by some of these very journalists. They've ignored the important relevance of people like Abu Nidal, Abu Abass and Al Zachawri, who's very presence in Baghdad should've raised important questions. But because it doesn't now fit the poltical agenda of the left, they have ignored the existence of these connections. When Clinton needed an excuse for his impeachment-eve bombing of Iraq, the media was more than happy to provide the Ameican people with evidence of Saddam's betrayals. But when Bush looks for that same support, the liberal media ignores the very evidence they accumulated during the Clinton years...and beyond. With the abundance of evidence available to show...at the very least, a link between Saddam and AQ/terrorism, one has to ask himself, just who is running a "disinformation" campaign?