Tuesday's elections are one indicator, the latest poll from NBC/Wall Street Journal is another: President Bush isn't very popular. Just 38 percent of poll respondents approve of his job performance, the lowest mark of his presidency. A majority of poll-takers believe the president misled the nation in making the case for war in Iraq. War hawks, take heart. Large portions of the American public are regularly mistaken. Seven in ten Americans, according to a September 2003 Washington Post poll, believed that Saddam Hussein was personally involved in 9/11. An October 2004 Harris poll found that thirty-seven percent (which is strikingly similar to the percentage of Americans who currently support the president) of Americans believed that several of the 9/11 hijackers were Iraqis. Now where on earth would anyone get such ideas?

Dan, its also my understanding that 11% of Americans believe Elvis is alive, and 11% also believe we never landed on the moon; I only hope they're the same 11%. I have to ask what is your point when you ask "Now where on earth would anyone get such ideas?" Are intimating Bush or others in his administration told them? Please clarify.

Dan,
You also have to look at how the questions were put to the respondents. The only conclusion I draw from these polls, as you present them, is that most people here are ignorant of much that is going on in the world. You can lead ignorant people into saying all sorts of inane things, like Bill Clinton was our greatest president or that George Bush is.

I agree with the above, Dan. I love ya, buddy, but I expect that sorta line from a loopy leftist, not a sensible right-of-center war critic.

When people are fed the daily mantra of "Bush bad", that is what many will come to believe as fact. Many in this country have become either indoctrinated to believe what they see on t.v., or are just to lazy to look elsewhere. What's the old adage? If you tell someone something long enough, it becomes true? I may have it wrong, yet I think I'm close.

Wm. Clement, the saying goes, "if you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth..." I don't think that Dan has fallen for this line, rather he is being semi-facetious about the matching percentages.

There is likely a lot of overlap, but one can't assume that one that beleives in the Iraqi-9/11 connection instantaniously support Bush. I don't think this was the thrust of Dan's argument. The percentages are however an ironic coincedence.