50% of Americans Think Iraq Had WMD. Why? Blame Santorum.

[JABBS]

Click here to read why the idiot representing Pennsylvania affects the national conscience.

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. and his good buddy Pete Hoekstra

Two pigs in a poke. :grr:

[BOSSHOG]

2. A by gawd letter to the editor a few weeks ago

said that by gawd I-rack had WMD. It was saddamm hussein. He was a weapon of mass destruction, by gawd.

[ShortnFiery]

3. I don't believe these shitty polls. They are designed to dishearten us.

No, I refuse to believe that Americans are this much un-aware. And even if they are, it's easy to set them straight. Despite all the red, white and blue, FAUX news is creeping out even the "average American."

NoBody who's not employed within the Military Industrial Complex of mega-wealthy Corporations wants "perpetual war."

Let's stop supplying them the "cannon fodder" to complement their ambitions?

EVIL PEOPLE who love to profit from others death ... and at the destruction of entire nations. :grr:

[rodeodance]

5. yes, very disheartening. very much so.

[ShortnFiery]

6. But consider this ...

The people who are "true believers" of this are lost anyway. Plus, those OTHERS (hopefuls) who mistakenly believe he might have had these weapons KNOW THAT THEY ARE NOT WEAPONS GRADE & HE DID NOT HAVE THEM AT THE READY.

It won't help Republican's pompous contention that Iraq was an imminent threat to the USA.

[JABBS]

7. yeah but ...

it's one thing if 33% are true believers. if 50% can justify Iraq -- the natural step if you accept the WMD argument -- then 50% can justify voting Republican.

[ShortnFiery]

8. Nope, I don't believe so ... but time will tell :-) eom

[me9399]

9. the only way people will wake up to this crap...

is when they have a nuke coming at them...but then they'd support that too.

[JABBS]

10. ???

the problem is that there isn't a strong Democratic voice on the subject.

The Dems make a mistake saying that Bush lied about this or that. Forget lying. Let's assume he really thought that Iraq had WMD, or that we only needed 150,000 troops in Iraq, or that the insurgency was in its last throes, or that Lebanon and Egypt had great democratic movements, or that Iran and Syria were at bay.

The question, to paraphrase Dukakis from 1988, is competence. The Democrats should say that all these things going wrong show that the Republican leadership is incompetent on foreign policy. And in making that case -- on television, in newspaper editorials -- they can recite all the errors in judgment along the way.

[newyawker99]

13. Hi me9399!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[rodeodance]

4. I recall the day he stood up on the floor of Congress with his "news"

[gasperc]

11. blame him, we should blame ourselves

that half the population thinks they were there, we have to counter this lie and stop whining about the media. talk to people everywhere, if their where WMDs WHY WEREN'T OR HAVEN'T THEY BEEN USED ON OUR TROOPS, ETC!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[JABBS]

12. no

that would set up conservatives to answer, because we captured saddam and killed off most of the Iraqi leadership, and then the inevitable question, are you for us or against us.

The way to proceed is to say the administration has been incompetent, and then in the course of explaining why, mention that bush himself agreed that there were no WMD following the Iraq Survey Group's 2004 report. Case closed.

[Poiuyt]

14. And Sean Hannity

Didn't he just have a poll up on his page asking "How do you feel about WMD being found in Iraq?" This was just a couple of days ago.

[ray of light]

15. it's the media!