[lbo-talk] Harris on Iraq

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>The Harris Poll® #14, February 18, 2005
>
>... More surprising perhaps are the large numbers (albeit not majorities) 
>who believe the following claims not made by the president and which 
>virtually no experts believe to be true:
>
>     *     47 percent believe that Saddam Hussein helped plan and support 
>the  hijackers who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001 (up six 
>percentage  points from November).
>     *     44 percent actually believe that several of the hijackers who 
>attacked the  U.S. on September 11 were Iraqis (up significantly from 37% 
>in November). ...

So what is this, functional illiteracy or literate dysfunction?  The 
shadings of cluelessness seem ever more complex.

Carl