Well we all talk and debate about american ignorance, but this is true in many ways. it does give a bad impression to the rest of the world. For example, 53 percent of the nation pin the 9/11 murders on Saddam, something the CIA and most of the world intelligence gathering organizations have always discredited.
The fact that so many Americans believe this, reveals the successful messaging of the Bush administration along with a failure of both Congress and the media to suficiently question the President's actions or question the statements coming from the pentagon and white house.
Aswell as this, which sounds even more ridiculuos, the vice president, often talked about the "war on terror" and time and again messages came from the white house. But as soon as the speech would finish they would cut to scenes of saddam, indicating to the public that the culprits was Saddam.
After the attacks the americans learned that 15 of the 19 suicide bombers were saudi. with a little more info they would have learned that only one of the twenty six leaders of Al-Quaeda was iraqi, the rest were saudi, egyptian or yemini. And the top ten financiers, 8 were saudi (i'm not ripping on saudi's but this is the info). And a s harsh as saddam was, he was never close with international terrorism or Al-Quaeda.
By the time war had begun, the message wasn't that Iraq was behind 9/11, but that it was a potential enemy because it had weapons of mass destruction. As well as this, it was a rare thing to find an american that believed saddam was behind the attacks prior to the invasion of iraq.
And after the invasion of iraq, 45% of the populus of america believed that Saddam was involved in the 9/11 attacks. the successful drum beating from the white house and pentagon worked. the 8% increase after the invasion of iraq in this belief is not only thanks to this war mongering, but also a countries people trying to justify why they sent in over 200,000 troops.
so in conlusion, its clear, yes some americans are ignorant, but it isnt only theiir fault. their administration has failed them too.
The fact that so many Americans believe this, reveals the successful messaging of the Bush administration along with a failure of both Congress and the media to suficiently question the President's actions or question the statements coming from the pentagon and white house.
Aswell as this, which sounds even more ridiculuos, the vice president, often talked about the "war on terror" and time and again messages came from the white house. But as soon as the speech would finish they would cut to scenes of saddam, indicating to the public that the culprits was Saddam.

After the attacks the americans learned that 15 of the 19 suicide bombers were saudi. with a little more info they would have learned that only one of the twenty six leaders of Al-Quaeda was iraqi, the rest were saudi, egyptian or yemini. And the top ten financiers, 8 were saudi (i'm not ripping on saudi's but this is the info). And a s harsh as saddam was, he was never close with international terrorism or Al-Quaeda.
By the time war had begun, the message wasn't that Iraq was behind 9/11, but that it was a potential enemy because it had weapons of mass destruction. As well as this, it was a rare thing to find an american that believed saddam was behind the attacks prior to the invasion of iraq.
And after the invasion of iraq, 45% of the populus of america believed that Saddam was involved in the 9/11 attacks. the successful drum beating from the white house and pentagon worked. the 8% increase after the invasion of iraq in this belief is not only thanks to this war mongering, but also a countries people trying to justify why they sent in over 200,000 troops.
so in conlusion, its clear, yes some americans are ignorant, but it isnt only theiir fault. their administration has failed them too.
