Are Americans really that stupid? 41% claim to be.

Please say no... In a recent Newsweek poll that was released, 41% believe Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq to be directly involved in the 9/11 attacks. That's a 5% increase since September of 2004.

What? Why? How? I need to collect myself here. How in the world could over 2 in 5 Americans believe that to be true? Why do they believe it so? What pushed them to buy that story? Time and time again, the "links" between Saddam/Iraq and 9/11 (or even bin Laden) have been shown to be false. Faux News may not state this. Neither will President Bush or Vice President Cheney, but any neutral, independent study will report that there was no link between Hussein and the 9/11 attacks. Was Hussein the next Gandhi? Was he respected and admired all over the world? Was he the kind of guy that 92% of fathers worldwide wanted their daughters to end up with? No. But, that doesn't make him guilty of the attacks on 9/11. I can't stand Adolf Hitler, but should I make up a link between he and the 9/11 attacks? For a fictional story, sure, but as part of a report that is supposed to be accountable on all fronts? No, of course not. Almost all of the men on the planes that morning were from Saudi Arabia. That doesn't get reported much either. Sadly enough, I'd be surprised if 50% of Americans knew that.

What, since we haven't heard from the now extinct Osama bin Laden for who knows how long now, have some replaced him with Hussein, since Saddam was actually found and killed? Would that give 41% of people in this country a false sense of relief? Unbefrickinlievable!