Asking such politically charged questions in polls will prove nothing, though.

People will answer 'no' even if they are skeptical, because they don't want to appear anti-american or anti-democratic or whatever the buzz word of the moment is for people-who-go-disagree-with-what-the-president-does.


I have very little faith in polls at all, to be honest. The last election here, we had polls that went as far as 10% in either direction in favour of either of the two main parties, with the minor parties having noticable shares of seats in parliament. Most of the polls predicted that National would win.

In the end, it was very close, with Labour winning out by a couple of % and the minor parties getting about 50-60% of what the polls showed.

All of these polls apparently had margins of error within 2-4% as well, yet they all were so far off the mark with the final election results, far more innacurate than any other year has been. Political commentators noted that this was probably due to a very large regional divide - those in small towns and farming regions voted for National, those in the cities voted for Labour, and the poll results simply reflected which part of the population was more heavily sampled for any particular poll.

 

I have to agree with pretty much everything you just said.

The sad bit is that I've spent quite a bit of time in the middle east and most arabs are wonderful people, who don't deserve the hate and suspicion that is placed on them.

The terrorists and the like are the minority by far and what they do is terrible, but I can see that if I lived in complete poverty and all my loved ones had been killed by the violence in Iraq or by an Israeli bomb (that was sold to them by the US) I'd be pretty bitter too with America too, doesn't excuse what they are doing, but I can see why they might feel how they do.

Sadly I don't see the situation improving anytime soon and more innocent people around the world are going to suffer for it.

 

I have to say one thing...the polls that are asked whether the US govt was involved with 9/11 are now up to almost 50%. Check out infowars.com or prisonplanet.com for some fact based information on the US terror created war. Watch Terrorstorm from that site, and you decide what is real or not...

 

Please see www.infowars.com or prisonplanet.com for some truth to the matter. The information is factual, not swung like our local media. Check out Terrorstorm by Alex Jones.

 

Wonder if it's true:

http://www.aish.com/movies/JP/PhotoFraud.asp

...

 

Well according to this article http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/17/flying_toilet_terror_labs/, the whole thing has been hyped way out of proportion; the amount of liquid explosives required (and the hours it would take to combine them into a somewhat explosive material) are simply too much to realistically be smuggled on to a plane.

So it's very possible that despite this attack supposedly having a real root in an actual terrorist organisation, the method they were going to use (at least, the reported method) is a load of bunk. So really this is yet another exaggeration (if not flat out lie) coming from the Bush/Blair love fest, designed to do nothing more than spread FUD.