From the
Toronto Star:
"U.S. President George W. Bush conceded for the first time yesterday that the United States had no evidence indicating Saddam Hussein had anything to do with the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
Bush made the comment in a brief encounter with reporters at the White House, an apparent bid to answer critics who have accused him of linking the Iraq war and the terrorist attacks to justify an ongoing occupation, which is responsible for mounting American deaths and draining an economy already mired in deficit."
On top of the non-existant chemical weapons, Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11.
But when she was asked about the poll numbers showing seven in 10 Americans made the connection between Saddam and the terrorist attacks, Rice [Connie] said: "We have never claimed that Saddam Hussein had either direction or control of 9/11."
...All the while the public at large thought so. The government is our source of information on it's activities. If you're working for the government, you are by nature working for the people. If seven out of ten of those people missunderstand what it is your doing, you aren't doing your job properly. When lives are at stake, incompetence is not acceptable. The numerous people responsible for the public face of this administration should be fired emediately.
...But they won't be. The responce from everyone (including president Bush) has been "we don't know why the public thinks that". And therein lies the truth. It's not that the speech writers and the speech givers aren't good at their jobs. They're brilliant people. The old cream of the crop. It's that they've done exactly what they were supposed to do.
We've been hoodwinked, by the best hoodwinkers money can buy.
Our fundamental belifes have been manipulated as a means to a very unclear end.