--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: <snip> > I have no problem with any of these statements. Obviously the > issue is the overall War on terrorism of which Iraq is a part of. > There is no accusation that Saddam was involved in the 911 > attacks.
You can't possibly be as dumb as you sound here. The whole *point* is that they didn't make the accusation overtly; they planted the idea in people's minds by association. The statements were *designed* to make the suggestion without explicitly saying something they knew wasn't true. They were very carefully constructed so that dupes like you could exclaim, "Oh, but he didn't actually *say*..." But there's no question they were intended to mislead--there are too many of them along the same lines to have been accidental--and that they were successful in doing so. There's nothing else that could account for those poll numbers I reported. You claimed the idea that Saddam had been involved in 9/11 was widespread immediately after the attacks. It was not; it was *rare*. But in the space of a little over a year, it went up to 72 percent. There are quite a few polls asking similar questions around that time and later, and every last one shows a majority thinking Saddam was involved. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/2pRQfA/bOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
