A Washington Post poll in September 2003 found that nearly 70 percent of all Americans were convinced that Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the 9/11 terrorist attacks — even though he was not.
Bush, Cheney and others consistently linked al Qaeda to Hussein in speeches they gave in the run-up to war, and the media rarely pushed back. But neither Bush nor Cheney continued to claim that there were actual WMDs in Iraq once the searches came up empty — although they both continued to insist that Saddam had the “capability” to produce them.
Rather than a failure of the media, therefore, this latest poll result seems to indicate a refusal — unique to the modern Republican Party — to acknowledge facts.
According to this poll, an even larger proportion of Republican respondents who said Iraq had WMD — 64 percent — said they have either always believed (or have come to believe) that Barack Obama was born in another country, which he was not.
via Yes, Iraq Definitely Had WMD, Vast Majority Of Polled Republicans Insist.