A Lie Told Enough Times

Becomes the truth.

A majority of Americans have held at least one of three mistaken impressions about the U.S.-led war in Iraq, according to a new study released Thursday, and those misperceptions contributed to much of the popular support for the war.

The three common mistaken impressions are that:

1. U.S. forces found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

2. There's clear evidence that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein worked closely with the Sept. 11 terrorists.

3. People in foreign countries generally either backed the U.S.-led war or were evenly split between supporting and opposing it.

Are these people living under a rock?

Here's the questionnaire used by Program on International Policy Attitudes for the survey. It's in PDF.

Maddeningly, though, a gallup poll says Americans still think the media is "too liberal." Oy.