Poll: Many Still Link Iraq With WMD

[redqueen]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=11&u=/ap/20040820/ap_on_re_us/iraq_polls

WASHINGTON - More than half of Americans, 54 percent, continue to believe Iraq (news - web sites) had weapons of mass destruction or a program to develop them before the United States invaded last year, according to a poll released Friday.

Evidence of such weapons has not been found.

Half believe Iraq was either closely linked with al-Qaida before the war (35 percent) or was directly involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on this country (15 percent).

The poll by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland found the numbers on both questions have dropped in the face of evidence that both pre-war claims may have been false.

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[GOPisEvil]

1. Observation by GOPisEvil: Many are idiots.

[trotsky]

2. They forgot the latest conditional.

It wasn't WMDs per se, or a program to develop WMDs, but instead a desire to initiate the steps necessary to begin research on a way to start a program to develop weapons of mass destruction.

So you see, it's quite clear why we needed to invade.