>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
>Subject: [lbo-talk] lots of Americans believe WMDs have been found!
>Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 18:19:29 -0400
>
>[This stuff gets more surreal every day. Via Sam Smith's Progressive
>Review.]
>
><http://www.knowledgenetworks.com/ganp>
>
>A PIPA-Knowledge Networks poll finds that 68% continue to approve of the
>decision to go to war with Iraq. However, only 50% said that they were
>somewhat (29%) or very (21%) certain that "when the US government presented
>the evidence to justify going to war with Iraq, it was. . . not being
>misleading." Another 5% said they were not very certain. . . Steven Kull,
>director of PIPA comments, "Enthusiasm about the success of the war may be
>offset by the failure to find evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction
>or links to al' Qaeda."
>
>Kull continues, "For some Americans, their desire to support the war may be
>leading them to screen out information that weapons of mass destruction
>have
>not been found." While 59% of those polled correctly said the US has not
>found Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, 41% said they believed that the US
>has found such weapons (34%) or were unsure (7%). While 69% correctly said
>that Iraq had not used chemical or biological weapons in the war, 31% said
>they believed Iraq had (22%) or were unsure (9%). Kull adds, "Given the
>intensive news coverage and high levels of public attention to the topic,
>this level of misinformation suggests that some Americans may be avoiding
>having an experience of cognitive dissonance."
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