I get tired of having to keep repeating on this blog that the world is growing tired of having to wait for Americans to get their shit together. As a Canadian friend, I really don’t like chastising Americans this way. It feeds the American stereotype that Canadians are smug. But screw it. With a CNN report that I just watched with batshit crazy citizens of this country convinced that we are now witnessing the apocolypse, what have I got to lose?
And when I say “get your shit together”, I mean it in the most basic fundamental way. That is, to know what is “fantasy” and to know what is “reality”.
To this community that knows the difference:
Get ready to bang your head against the wall with this poll reported by Editor and Publisher and The Washington Times…
50 PERCENT OF AMERICANS STILL BELIEVE THAT IRAQ HAD WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION WHEN THE U.S. INVADED.
This is up 36% from last year, folks.
Sigh. I don’t know what to say. The only thing that could have possibly affected this number was Rick Santorum’s hysterical and pathetic attempt to make the GOP look better by showing a classified Defense Intelligence Report that showed that they found (drumroll) aging mustard & sarin gas agents that were developed before the first gulf war.
This story made the networks but was debunked immediately on Santorum’s Fox News appearance by the Department of Defence themselves. However, Rumsfeld smelt a PR opportunity and played a long a bit as I recall.
(for a musical Flash Slapdown I made of this farce, please CLICK HERE.)
There’s a sucker born every day. With Fox News on the air, the birthrate apparently continues to acclerate.
72% OF AMERICANS BELIEVE THAT THE IRAQI PEOPLE ARE BETTER OFF NOW THAN UNDER SADDAM HUSSEIN’S REGIME.
With a civil war underway, and 6,000 Iraqis dead in the past 60 days — who can argue?
JEEZUS!!!
I had no idea the cognitive dissonance in this country was as high as it was — STILL. TO. THIS. DAY.
64% OF AMERICANS STILL BELIEVE SADDAM HUSSEIN HAD STRONG TIES TO AL QAEDA.
The lie continues.
41% OF AMERICANS BELIEVE THAT THE WAR IN IRAQ HAS REDUCED THE THREAT OF A TERROR ATTACK IN THE U.S.
This logic, quite frankly, scares the hell out of me. Of course, if we continue this logic — going to war with Syria and Iran will eliminate terrorism in the U.S. for generations, won’t it? Yep! Uhuuh. Pass the Coors, Jeb.
This poll was done by Harris and had a sample size of 1,020. The margin of error is +/- 3%.
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Upon a bit more reflection, the only hope that I can muster is that the questions for this poll were too general, so that Americans were allowed to answer these questions in the loosest way possible.
