[lbo-talk] anyone know the poll source for americans believing iraqis were on the 911 planes?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Apr 7 06:51:31 PDT 2003


steve philion wrote:


>anyone know the poll source for americans believing iraqis were on the 911
>planes? . i can' t find where that was cited in...

At 12:16 PM -0500 3/21/03, Doug Henwood wrote:


><http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030314-022023-3781r>
>
>Analysis: Which American groups back war?
>By Steve Sailer
>UPI National Correspondent
>
>From the Washington Politics & Policy Desk
>Published 3/20/2003 1:23 PM
>
>LOS ANGELES, March 20 (UPI) -- Now that war has started, support by
>the American public for an invasion of Iraq can be expected to rise
>among all groups. But what segments of the public have been the
>strongest and most consistently supportive of a pre-emptive attack?

[...]


>A Knight-Ridder poll asked, "How many of the Sept. 11 hijackers were
>Iraqi citizens?" Only 17 percent gave the right answer: none.
>
>Apparently, no poll has yet tried to find out what percentage of
>Americans can tell Iraq from Iran. "Do you support war on Iraq as
>revenge for the Ayatollah Khomeini taking our embassy hostage in
>Tehran in 1979?" might be an illuminating question to ask.



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