If you look at the poll in question, Shooter is misrepresenting (lying about) the numbers. It was more like 34%. He's a liar. No surprise there.Z

If you look at the poll in question, you will see that shooter has combined the "very" likely (34%) with the "somewhat" likely (35%) to get a total of 69% (or "almost" 70%) who consider it "likely". This is a fairly standard technique. Shooter doesn't often lie (but he does it often enough that you can't trust anything he says without checking). What he mostly does is distort — take a valid fact and offer a distorted conclusion based on it. His other main strategy is to just make stuff up and then starting with a false premise reach an equally false conclusion. Usually his conclusions seem to be taken from elsewhere and shooter clearly does not have the intellectual equipment to be able to evaluate these conclusion so he simply parrots those that match his opinions.

if you look at shooter's posting (http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/06/28/helen_thomas/permalink/6c520647c377721ed5a56edec2f8df6e.html), you'll see that he claimed that nearly 80% found Saddam's involvement in 9/11 likely. (I took my 70% figure from Glenn's posting, not shooter's.) This looks like a lie, but is probably just a result of the previously mentioned lack of intellectual equipment. Doubtless shooter tried to add 34 and 35 and got 80. Of course it might just be a distortion since nearly 80% looks more impressive than nearly 70% and 69% is nearly 80% if you're counting by 20's.

Did anyone catch Cheney's act at the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in 2005? If not, see http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43247-2005Jan27.html.

Talk about contempt you can cut with a knife — everyone else is dressed for a funeral, or at least a memorial service, and Cheney is dressed for a Packers game.

No wonder these guys love him.

The last time war was declared in the US was 12/8/1941.

The last time war was declared in the US was 6/5/1942 when the US declared war on Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania.

In fact that may have been the last time on earth war was declared.

The Soviet Union declared war on Japan on 8/8/1945.

Facts are stubborn things.
— Ronald Reagan

is that Pew didn't get started until 2001. Data marked 1999/2000 in the survey is from the State Department's surveys. There is earlier data, but it is scattered and may not be directly comparable due to methodological variations.

It is interesting, however, that one of Pew's very first polls (from August 15, 2001; http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=5) shows that Bush was already, if not unpopular, at least suspect in Europe:

In France, Germany, Italy and GB, the approval of Bush's international policy ranges from 17-29% with France being the low and Italy the high. Similarly, to the statement "Bush makes decisions based only on US interests", agreement ranged from 74-85% with the high being France and the low being Germany.

These are fairly staggering numbers 7 months into his presidency.

Because it's the same story, over and over again. I mean, it's no longer news. Those of you who are "logical" and "reality-based" and legal-minded are constructing a case for the record, but why? The reality is as plain as the nose on yours and everyone else's [] face. . . .

Let me state the obvious: The media is controlled by corporate interests. Those interests are in sync with those of a greedy, corporatist culture that is epitomized by the worst of our political culture. . . So of course the media supports the war. After all, their companies are making money off it.
— Susie Madrak

Please send the following quotation to Susie and to anyone else who belabors the point that the corruption of the American press and the American government (both branches of Corporate America) is too "obvious" to require repeating:

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
— George Orwell

Presumably, intelligent women are excused.