Making Progress (Sort Of)

The result from a poll from last week’s CBS poll was initially very depressing, since it meant that four out of ten people either still believed the garbage that Hussein was personally involved in the 9/11 attacks or didn’t know one way or the other.  Then I realised that the dense cloud of ignorance and propaganda that the jingoes have been spreading for years has actually been gradually lifting.  At the very start of the war, more than half the country believed this nonsense, and that number has been cut almost in half.  You have to wonder what would happen to support for the war in Iraq if that 28% knew the truth.  As it is, 68% want us out within two years.  6% are willing to have a large American presence in Iraq for 5+ years.