Disheartening, though no big surprise, alas:

51% STILL BELIEVE SADDAM HAD WMD

Most Americans continue to believe Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction when the war began, a new poll yesterday showed.

The Harris Poll found that 51 percent believe Iraq had WMD, compared with 38 who don't believe the White House claim, a leading rationale for the U.S. invasion. The numbers have barely changed since February, when the last poll was conducted, despite the fact that weapons of mass destruction have yet to be uncovered....

--New York Post

This part makes me crazy -- one of every five Americans thinks we've actually found stuff (assuming, of course, that they aren't just yellow-dog right-wingers giving what they know is the most hardcore answer possible):

The poll also showed that 74 percent of Americans still believe that no clear evidence of WMD has been unearthed, while 19 percent believe proof exists....

You probably don't need (or want) to do this, but the full range of "reasoning" on the other side can be seen here. Nothing you haven't seen before -- and nothing that makes the slightest bit of logical sense.

This isn't going to change -- get used to that. In order for Kerry to win, he will have to get at least some votes from people who think Saddam had WMDs in 2003.