9/11 and Ignorant Americans
Since I was already up I started browsing the news sites this morning, the three year anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks. The massive and willful ignorance of the American people continues to astound me, although I don't know why I should still be shocked, they have proven to be gullible fools
so many times over the decades that nothing they swallow should faze me anymore. This is yet another example of why democracy is a stupid idea. When nearly half of the population is literally delusional, well, should they really be allowed to vote?
NEW YORK (September 10, 2004) -- The latest Newsweek poll, released this week, revealed that 42% of Americans continue to believe that Saddam Hussein's regime was "directly involved" in the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States, despite all the evidence to the contrary. That's nearly as many as the 44% who disagree.
It seems to matter little that every official federal probe, most recently the much-lauded 9/11 Commission, has debunked this myth, in high-profile reports. Yet the percentage of Americans clinging to the Iraq connection has declined only slightly in the past year.
...another poll...suggested that Americans remain "woefully uninformed or misinformed about certain key issues relating to the war." One survey result: 35% still believe that Iraq had stockpiles of WMD when the U.S. invaded.
Ah well, what do you expect when
most Americans can't even find Iraq on a map?
WHERE IN THE WORLD
Among 18- to 24-year-old Americans given maps:
87 percent cannot find Iraq
83 percent cannot find Afghanistan
76 percent cannot find Saudi Arabia
70 percent cannot find New Jersey
49 percent cannot find New York
11 percent cannot find the United States