ARGH

The percentage of Americans who believe utter bollocks about Iraq is actually going up, according to the Harris Poll:

... * 64 percent believe that Saddam Hussein had strong links to Al Qaeda (up slightly from 62% in November)....

* 47 percent believe that Saddam Hussein helped plan and support the hijackers who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001 (up six percentage points from November).

* 44 percent actually believe that several of the hijackers who attacked the U.S. on September 11 were Iraqis (up significantly from 37% in November).

* 36 percent believe that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when the U.S. invaded (down slightly from 38% in November).

Another interesting finding is that only 46 percent believe that Saddam Hussein was prevented from developing weapons of mass destruction by the U.N. weapons inspectors, a fact which most reports now support.

When it comes to presidents and foreign policy, sometimes it seems as if Americans are like Ingrid Bergman sighing to Humphrey Bogart: You'll have to do the thinking for both of us, for all of us.

(Via Cursor.)