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Saddam and 9/11: Bush said it, people believed it, bedwetting apologists deny it ever happened

Honestly, I don't know why I even bother to do this. That said, here goes:

Dean Esmay:

[A]nother common lie...is that at one point a survey showed that a majority of Americans believed that Saddam was behind 9/11. No scientific poll by any respected polling agency has ever shown that. Ever.
USA Today (September 2003):
Nearly seven in 10 Americans believe it is likely that ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the Sept. 11 attacks, says a poll out almost two years after the terrorists' strike against this country.
I don't know what's more ridiculous -- that Bush would repeatedly make the connection, or that people would believe it, or that bed-wetting Bush apologists would deny it all ever happened.

Sorry for the distraction.

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Categories: George W. Bush , History , Iraq , Media , Poll , Terrorism , War , War in Iraq

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Here's another fun one from Cheney:

Further, Cheney argued that new evidence found in Iraq proved more ties between Hussein and Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda organization, and he argued that Iraq was the "geographic base" for the perpetrators of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. "If we're successful in Iraq . . . then we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of the terrorists who had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11," he said in an hour-long interview on NBC's "Meet the Press."

"http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A10734-2003Sep14¬Found=true">

Honestly, I don't know why I even bother to do this.

Yeah, I'm not sure why I bother either. It never pays to pick fights with other people's hallucinations.

Posted by: double-plus-ungood [TypeKey Profile Page] | January 23, 2006 01:18 PM

And putting a hyperlink in as the first item of a comment completely pooches your sidebar after the "Recent Comment" preview snippet (What I see is the normal sidebat until this:

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Posted by: double-plus-ungood [TypeKey Profile Page] | January 23, 2006 02:01 PM

d-p-u:

And putting a hyperlink in as the first item of a comment completely pooches your sidebar

Yeah, so who's fault is that??

;^)

Actually, the sidebar gets "pooched" whenever a hyperlink is included in the first 65 or so characters of a comment AND the visitor is viewing the site at 800 x 600 screen res or less.

I think...

Posted by: Ara Rubyan [TypeKey Profile Page] | January 23, 2006 02:59 PM

...AND the visitor is viewing the site at 800 x 600 screen res or less.

Nah, my resolution is ... wait a sec ... 1152 x 864

Posted by: double-plus-ungood [TypeKey Profile Page] | January 23, 2006 03:16 PM

Solution: put the hyperlink at the end of the comment, or, if possible, outside that 65-character limit.

Posted by: Ara Rubyan [TypeKey Profile Page] | January 23, 2006 04:03 PM

Well, he did say respected polling agency. Not to split hairs but USA Today is like the Enquirer with multiple sections.

Posted by: Rosemary, The Queen of All Evil [TypeKey Profile Page] | January 23, 2006 05:10 PM

Well, he did say respected polling agency. Not to split hairs but USA Today is like the Enquirer with multiple sections.

The poll quoted in the USA Today article was done by the Washington Post, Rose.

Posted by: double-plus-ungood [TypeKey Profile Page] | January 23, 2006 06:36 PM

Aw schucks. Well, you can't say I didn't try...

Posted by: Rosemary, The Queen of All Evil [TypeKey Profile Page] | January 23, 2006 09:21 PM

That is an astonishingly stupid thing to say on Dean's part. Isn't it what he wants?

Isn't it?

Posted by: templestark [TypeKey Profile Page] | January 24, 2006 02:09 AM

What he lacks in facts he more than makes up for in conviction.

Posted by: Ara Rubyan [TypeKey Profile Page] | January 24, 2006 06:56 AM

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