Just plain wrong....

Just because a statement is repeated dozens of times does not make it true. In the run up to the war in Iraq President Bush repeated literally dozens of times statements linking the 9/11 hijackers to Iraq and Saddam Hussein until fully 78% of Americans polled believed there was a link. This despite the total lack of evidence to back this up and the 9/11 Commission verified the non-link in their report covering the attack. And yet here we are, 6 years after 9/11 and a recent Newsweek Poll still shows that:

"Even today, more than four years into the war in Iraq, as many as four in ten Americans (41 percent) still believe Saddam Hussein's regime was directly involved in financing, planning or carrying out the terrorist attacks on 9/11, even though no evidence has surfaced to support a connection. A majority of Americans were similarly unable to pick Saudi Arabia in a multiple-choice question about the country where most of the 9/11 hijackers were born. Just 43 percent got it right -- and a full 20 percent thought most came from Iraq." (Emphasis is mine)

How can this be? Why are the American people still so woefully out of touch with the reality of this situation? And there was Bush at yesterday's news conference still defending his failed Iraq policies by saying that the people we are fighting over there are the same people that attacked us on 9/11. NO. This is NOT true. The groups we are fighting are either Sunnis or Shias involved in factional fighting or they are members of Al-Qaeda in Iraq which is loosely affiliated with Al-Qaeda in name only. They are NOT the same people who attacked us on 9/11 and no matter how many times Bush repeats it it will never be true.