Did the 20% of americans who where against the war after 9-11 get it wrong.Or is the rest of america stupid.?

Answer 1

Got it wrong and still have it wrong.

Answer 2

Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 nor did it have anything to do with the terrorist organization Al-Queda and as such did not pose a danger to the US.

The people against always were correct, and the rest are just gullible people that believe anything that is fed to them by their government. Since that time an additional 40% of the people have awaken from their delusion, too little to late for the hundreds of thousands of people that have been slaughtered in an unjustified war.

Answer 3

The rest of America was, at that time, scared and angry. The people in charge encouraged that fear and anger so that they could invade Iraq. Most Americans have realized their mistake and are now angry at those who lied to them. So I'd say it's only that last 33% who're a bit slow.

Answer 4

They were wrong, just like the 68% who oppose the war now. And when we find those Weapons of Mass Destruction boy won't their faces be red. The 10-15 years of US Soldiers dying will be a small price to pay to be right.

Answer 5

The rest of America is not really stupid, just gullible.

Answer 6

It looks like you are blood thirsty.... I assume you know about the war only from TV reports and video games. Well, what can I say: just sign in, and go for the war in Iraq. They need people! You want blood? you got it!

Answer 7

No they were just the 20% that used some logical thinking,the sheeples will always do as they are told and bitchabout it afterwards...its the american way.

What explains the gullibility of Americans, a gullibility that has mired the U.S. in disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and that promises war with Iran, North Korea, and a variety of other targets if neoconservatives continue to have their way?

Part of the explanation is that millions of conservatives are thrilled at the opportunity to display their patriotism and to show their support for their country. Bush's rhetoric is perfectly designed to appeal to this desire. "You are with us or against us" elicits a blind and unquestioning response from people determined to wear their patriotism on their sleeves. "You are with us or against us" vaccinates Americans against factual reality and guarantees public acceptance of administration propaganda.

Many Americans find the government's message much more reassuring than the actual facts. The government's message is: "America is virtuous. Virtuous America was attacked by evil terrorists. America is protecting itself by going to war and overthrowing regimes that sponsor or give shelter to terrorists, erecting in their place democracies loyal to America."

Sugarcoated propaganda doesn't present Americans with the emotional and mental stress associated with the hard facts.

Many Americans have turned a blind eye to the administration's illegal and unconstitutional spying on the grounds that, as they themselves are doing nothing wrong, they have nothing to fear. If this is the case, why did our Founding Fathers bother to write the Constitution? If the executive branch can be trusted not to abuse power, why did Congress pass legislation establishing a panel of federal judges (ignored by the Bush administration) to oversee surveillance? If President Bush can decide that he can ignore statutory law, how does he differ from a dictator? If Bush can determine law, what is the role of Congress and the courts? If "national security" is a justification for elevating the power of the executive, where is his incentive to find peaceful solutions?

Emotional appeals to fear and to patriotism have led close to half of the population to accept unaccountable government in the name of "the war on terrorism." What a contradiction it is that so many Americans have been convinced that safety lies in the sacrifice of their civil liberties and accountable government.

If so many Americans cannot discern that they have acquiesced to conditions from which tyranny can arise, how can they understand that it is statistically impossible for the NSA's mass surveillance of Americans to detect terrorists?

Floyd Rudmin, a professor at a Norwegian university, writing at CounterPunch.org applies the mathematics of conditional probability, known as Bayes' Theorem, to demonstrate that the NSA's surveillance cannot successfully detect terrorists unless both the percentage of terrorists in the population and the accuracy rate of their identification are far higher than they are. He correctly concludes that "NSA's surveillance system is useless for finding terrorists."

The surveillance is, however, useful for monitoring political opposition and stymieing the activities of those who do not believe the government's propaganda.

Another reason for the gullibility of Americans is their lack of alternative information to government propaganda. The independence of print and TV media disappeared in the media consolidations of the 1990s. Today a handful of large corporations own the traditional media. The wealth of these corporations consists of broadcast licenses, which the companies hold at the government's discretion. Newspapers are run by corporate executives, whose eyes are on advertising revenue and who shun contentious reporting. The result is that the traditional media are essentially echo chambers for government propaganda.

The Internet and the foreign news media accessible through the Internet are the sources of alternative information. Many Americans have not learned to use and to rely on the Internet for information.

Many Americans find the government's message much more reassuring than the actual facts. The government's message is: "America is virtuous. Virtuous America was attacked by evil terrorists. America is protecting itself by going to war and overthrowing regimes that sponsor or give shelter to terrorists, erecting in their place democracies loyal to America."

Sugarcoated propaganda doesn't present Americans with the emotional and mental stress associated with the hard facts.

In National Socialist Germany, by the time propaganda lost its grip, Germans were in the hands of a police state. It was too late to take corrective measures. Not even the military could correct the disastrous policies of the executive. In the end, Germany was destroyed. Does a similar fate await Americans?

Answer 8

Check the updated polls, 60% say it was wrong now.

Good question.

Answer 9

They were wrong. Iraq wan't about 9/11, it was about the danger Iraq posed.

http://www.freedomagenda.com/iraq/wmd_quotes.html

Answer 10

The second choice.

Answer 11

I agree - we should wait until we have real proof that there is a conspiracy of nations to nuke us, say by waiting till such an event happens, then who could say **** to us then!