...and that Iraq supported al Qaeda.
This is exasperating.
From an April 8-15 poll:
-- A 51% to 38% majority continues to believe that "Iraq actually had weapons of mass destruction," virtually unchanged since February.
-- A 49% to 36% plurality of all adults continues to believe that "clear evidence that Iraq was supporting Al Qaeda has been found." These numbers have scarcely changed since June 2003.
-- While a 43% plurality believes that the "U.S. government deliberately exaggerated the reports of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to increase support for war," a 50% plurality (also virtually unchanged over the last eight months) continues to believe that the government "tried to present the information accurately."
Here at dKos, we're news junkies. We're the news-reading equivalent of Day Traders. We have to face facts: the average American doesn't know who the hell Richard Clarke is. American public opinion is largely controlled by a mix of propaganda and some strange voodoo.
Here's a challenge: what if we spent half of the time we normally spend reading dKos instead hanging up fliers and signs... doing whatever we frigging can to get the truth out? I've done it before but it's hard work, so I'm dragging my feet. Time to get serious though.