[tomball]

Knight-Ridder liked this artical so much that they repeated it in Sunday's paper. Curious to learn whether or not they printed this dribble in any of their other newspapers, and how many times they will be repeating it until after the elections.

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[Defender2]

Knight-Ridder....Aider....Abetter....Comfort Giver....To Our(U.S.) Enemies!!!!

[Theresawithanh]

"23 percent for those who said they relied on PBS or National Public Radio."

Here's 23 percent of the problem!

[Shermy]

There's clear evidence that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein worked closely with the Sept. 11 terrorists.

What's "clear"?

What's "close"

It's very deceptive spin, portraying Americans as ignorant dupes. But look at the words of the actual report. For example, only 22% saw a 9/11-Saddam connection. 35% said Saddam had a substantial connection with AQ, but not with 9/11. 30% said few contacts, 7% said none.

[pfflier]

The three common mistaken impressions are that: U.S. forces found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

They found 16,000 chemical warfare suits, orders to use chemical weapons and live Botulin cultures in a scientists refrigerator plus 12 hidded labs unknown to the UN. Other than that, I am uninformed.

There's clear evidence that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein worked closely with the Sept. 11 terrorists.

At least one US court has found this to be valid in a civil liability trial. Another case is pending using the same premis. Other than that I am uninformed. Did we forget to mention the terrorist training camp with airplanes, the hospitalized refugee from Afghanistan and the payroll by Hussein of suicide bombers? I'm willing to bet my country's security that some were Al Queda.

People in foreign countries generally either backed the U.S.-led war or were evenly split between supporting and opposing it.

Maybe we should clarify that and say the civilized world including New Europe...you know the ones that just got their freedom courtesy of the USA, supported us. 27 other countries supported us. The stuffy snotty French (who hated us in 1964 when I lived there as a militarty dependent when they kicked us out) still hate us, and the socialist Germans who are pandering to the East German remnants hate us. So I am an uninformed bumpkin because I don't listen to NPR and PBS.

[Timesink]

A quick check of Google News shows that about the only places this fraudulent push study got any publicity was in some foreign left-wing papers, American left-wing web sites, and on the newspaper web sites of Knight-Ridder newspapers (which are all cookie-cutter and run from a centralized location).

This push study was debunked in another thread a day or so ago. Search for a thread entitled "We report, you get it wrong".

[zook]

1. Weapons have already been found in Iraq. See Powell's UN speech. Note the chem/bio warheads that were found prior to the war. These are weapons.

2. The American people haven't been asked about "hard evidence" of a link between Hussein and 9/11. They've been asked if they *believe* there's a link.

3. Regarding what the rest of the world thinks, those who conducted this survey can only go on what polls have said. The public goes on what it believes; i.e., on an assumption that either the polls are wrong or that world opinion is ambiguous or may have shifted.

This study is pure propaganda.