God Bless the mass media,

God Bless the mass media, public school system and American laziness:

According to a January poll conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates, 46 percent of Americans thought most of the Sept. 11 hijackers were Iraqis. (Only 17 percent knew the correct answer: none were from Iraq.) That conspiracy theory seems to be thriving inside the U.S. military as well. A recent news account in the Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger about U.S. troops deployed in the Gulf region was accompanied by a photograph of a bomb presumably destined for an Iraqi target. On it someone had scribbled: “It’s Payback Time.”

With even Bush 41 now coming out against unilateral war in Iraq I don’t understand why we plod down the same course.