[Vision2020] Alarming Information about our fellow citizens

Thu, 6 Feb 2003 17:25:39 -0800

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"At the end of the first week of January, the Princeton Survey Research A=
ssociates polled more than 1,200 Americans on behalf of the Knight Ridder=
 newspaper chain. They asked a very simple question: "To the best of your=
 knowledge, how many of the September 11 hijackers were Iraqi citizens?" =20
"It should be impossible for a person who has lived through the last 16 m=
onths not to know the name and face of Mohamed Atta, believed to be the l=
ead hijacker, and to have at least some nebulous sense of the identity of=
 the hijackers. For much of this time, the nation in toto was umbilically=
 joined to the media's saturation coverage, with hourly "terror alerts," =
scrolling "terror" news tickers, and panoplies of talking heads sprouting=
 a confetti of 10-second sound bites. Surely some information must have b=
een imparted. =20
"The Knight Ridder survey appears to reveal a quite different reality. Of=
 those surveyed, only 17 percent knew the correct answer: that none of th=
e hijackers were Iraqi. Forty-four percent of Americans believe that most=
 or some of the hijackers were Iraqi; another 6 percent believe that one =
of the hijackers was a citizen of that most notorious node in the axis of=
 evil. That leaves 33 percent who did not know enough to offer an answer.=
 . . ."
"A National State of Confusion," Kane Pryor, Salon magazine
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2003/02/06/iraq_poll/index.html

Melynda Huskey
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