Dickey,

I must point out *again* that without a control group, the polling data are meaningless.

It is possible, if not probable, that *without* the propaganda campaign, the poll numbers would have plummetted very quickly to zero. It was the propaganda that kept them from zeroing, and in fact raised them a bit. Quite an effective propaganda campaign actually.

If that is your best evidence against a propoganda campaign, you had better give up, because it could easily be proving the opposite of what you are asserting. At the very best, it is totally inconclusive without a control group (composed of people who were somehow shielded from Bush Administration innuendo)....

Wait a minute --- that would be much of the rest of the World! What was the belief in a Saddam-Al Quaeda connection amongst people outside the USA (during the same period)? Find me those numbers, and a rational discussion can be had.

In particular I would like to see the numbers for people outside the US who are not regular viewers of FOX News, or listeners of Limbaugh (who helped "catapult the propaganda").