Was this WMD in Iraq poll engineered?

According to a recent Harris Poll done on July 21, roughly half of Americans believe that Iraq had WMDs when the U.S. invaded contrary to all evidence that shows that their WMDs were destroyed after the 1991 Gulf War.



In the weeks prior to this survey, there were senators stating that there were, in fact, WMDs in Iraq at the time of the invasion. The WMDs that they were referring to were rusting carcasses of SCUDs and other missiles in open fields that were not totally destroyed, though they were destroyed enough that they could not be used again.

Most Americans only read the headline of that story and therefore still believe that there are WMDs still there rather than to read the story to realize that the senators were just spewing propoganda to the masses who never bother to read beyond the headlines.

Equally guilty are the mainstream press who print such headlines without actually having a story to go with it. This reduces our mainstream press to a mere propoganda machine and therefore less reliable than the popular grocery stand rumor magazines.

I suspect that this survey would not fare so well if done today, just a few weeks after the WMD propoganda was published. This propoganda & poll may have been orchistrated as an election year spoof to rally support for those defending our presence in Iraq.

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Of course it was. It has Karl Rove's fingerprints all over it. It is simple obscure and obstruct tactics.

If over half of Americans believed that Iraq had WMD when we invaded...it would suggest by implication that over half of Americans still supported Bushes policies there and we know that is false.

Bushes poll numbers are still in the mid 30% range, Liberman was defeated in the primary yesterday and voters polled consistantly site displeasure with how the war is being handled as the number one issue in this election. It is so bad that the White House has said it is okay for incumbants to criticize the management of this war (but not of course Bush himself) if they think that will help them get re-elected. That in itself speaks volumes.

One of the biggest proof's, as far as I am concerned, that Hussien had essentially been defanged by the time we invaded is the absence of WMD being dragged out and shown off n support of the president and his party.

Of course the season is young......

And the regular polls are just as doctored.
Go look at the polls before Bush was elected and see what the polls predicted, BOTH times.

Polls, for them to be nominally correct need a heck of a lot more pollsters than there are. Gallop poll is horrible.