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Number of Americans who believe Saddam-9/11 tie rises to 41 percent
A new Newsweek poll out this weekend exposed "gaps" in America's knowledge of history and current events.
Perhaps most alarmingly, 41% of Americans answered 'Yes' to the question "Do you think Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq was directly involved in planning, financing, or carrying out the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001?"
That total is actually up 5 points since September 2004.
Further, a majority of people couldn't identify Saudia Arabia as the country of origin of most of the 9/11 hijackers, even given the question in multiple choice format. 20% answered Iraq, while 14% believed the hijackers came from Iran.
A majority (52%) believe the US is losing the war against al Qaeda, however Newsweek disagrees. In the magazine's reporting of the poll, they made judgment that the US is in fact not "losing the fight against al-Qaeda or radical Islamic terrorism."
Closer to home, 89% of Americans are unable to name the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (John Roberts), though a majority of those polled were able to name Nancy Pelosi as the current Speaker of the House.
A large majority of people said they didn't know or didn't care who the winner of this year's American Idol competition was (or at least weren't willing to admit it).
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These people are Rudy McRomneyson's base LOL.
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Here's a pretty good blog on the Iraq war.
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/
Great article here
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/surrender-or-die.htm
I don't see what your point is?
Americans as a mass people are stupid. ALL Americans not just Conservative americans and not only liberal americans, but the vast majority of American people are sheep and when they get together over something (such as politics) they are stupid and easily lead. The right does it and so does the left (although the left was better at it for a long time since they have a lot of hollywood and tv on their side
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I would hope that a large amount of people didn't care who teh winner of American Idol was. That is pointless and trivial. Not being able to name the Chief Justice isn't that suprising. Neither is the fact that people couldn't place where the hijackers come from. The media in this country does a great job of being biased, but does a horrible job of actually reporting anything. While I was stationed in Iceland I watched the BBC for any real news.
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The funny thing is, BBC did a internal investigation and found the BBC is biased towards liberal views.......
Currently playing:
LOTRO & WoW (not much WoW though because Mines of Moria rocks!!!!)
Looking Foward too:
Bioware games (Dragon Age & Star Wars The Old Republic)
And for that we're all happy about! Idol is the creation of the devil. I couldn't point out Saudi Arabia as the origin of the most of the 9/11 hijackers, that's strange.
And here is proof all Americans are stupid.
I don't see what your point is?
Americans as a mass people are stupid. ALL Americans not just Conservative americans and not only liberal americans, but the vast majority of American people are sheep and when they get together over something (such as politics) they are stupid and easily lead. The right does it and so does the left (although the left was better at it for a long time since they have a lot of hollywood and tv on their side
)
I would hope that a large amount of people didn't care who teh winner of American Idol was. That is pointless and trivial. Not being able to name the Chief Justice isn't that suprising. Neither is the fact that people couldn't place where the hijackers come from. The media in this country does a great job of being biased, but does a horrible job of actually reporting anything. While I was stationed in Iceland I watched the BBC for any real news.
Well put. I especially liked what you said about the news here in the US. How often do you watch the national news and feel like you got any real information?
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