Public Growing Skeptical

In a bad sign for the administration, the misinformation about Saddam and his alleged ties to Al-Qaeda is not sticking as well as it used to. It's still shocking that nearly a quarter of Americans still believe there were Iraqi hijackers and that Saddam was behind 9/11, but the truth is gradually sinking in (the percentages are the respondents who answered 'true' to the statements below): Saddam Hussein had stronglinks with al-Qaeda 41% Dec. 2005 64% Feb. 2005 62% Oct. 2004 Several of the hijackers who attacked the U.S. on September 11 were Iraqis 24% Dec. 2005 44% Feb. 2005 37% Oct. 2004 Saddam Hussein helped plan and support the hijackers who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001 22% Dec. 2005 47% Feb. 2005 41% Oct. 2004 Source: Harris InteractiveMethodology: Telephone interviews with 1,961 American adults, conducted from Dec. 8 to Dec. 14, 2005. Margin of error is 3 per cent.