I’m constantly amazed by the incredible ignorance of a relatively large segment of Americans:

Forty-one percent (41%) of U.S. adults believe that Saddam Hussein had "strong links to Al Qaeda."

Twenty-two percent (22%) of adults believe that Saddam Hussein "helped plan and support the hijackers who attacked the United States on September 11."

Twenty-six percent (26%) of adults believe that Iraq "had weapons of mass destruction when the U.S. invaded."

Twenty-four percent (24%) of all adults believe that "several of the hijackers who attacked the United States on September 11 were Iraqis."

Granted, these numbers are an improvement from less than a year ago (when, for example, 47% of those surveyed thought that Saddam helped plan 9/11 — something even the Bush Administration never claimed).  But still, one wonders exactly what is going on with these people.  I mean, we knew as early as September 12, 2001 that none of the hijackers were Iraqi… and one-fourth of the U.S. population thinks otherwise?

And you can’t really blame the media for this one — even Fox News (by and large) gets this basic information correct.

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