46% of America has been Duped

A new Zogby telephone poll focusing on national security issues was done over the weekend was done and I was startled by this result:

I was upset enough about the public’s general acceptance of this blatant falsity back in 2003, but three years later 46% of Americans still believe this garbage!?  It’s been well documented that Al Queda despised Saddam Hussein and his regime in Iraq because they saw it as a secular pock-mark on their vision for a radical islamic Middle-East.  The feeling was mutual and Saddam managed with varying success to keep Al Queda out of his borders. But if there’s all this hard proof, where did the American people get this idea? Hmm… (look below the fold for an answer):

Although Cheney was the most vociferous supporter of this connection, Bush himself along with GOP lawmakers continued to claim this for quite a while.  But the 9/11 commission and George Tenet both resoundingly concluding that there is no link must have cooled their jets because we haven’t heard that much about a link since the 2004 elections.  So why do people still believe this garbage?  What would it take for them to accept the truth?  Would the Commander-in-Chief denying it be enough?  ‘Cause we can do that one: